Cloud Solutions Architect

Version 1 has celebrated over 28 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. Our expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly changing Digital-First world we live in. We foster strong partnerships with leading technology giants including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

We’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of Version 1 and what we do:

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 3400+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW

We’re a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you!

You will:

• Work with customers and Version 1 colleagues delivering high quality solutions on Microsoft Azure
• Engage with customers to understand requirements and identify solutions and opportunities.
• Use DevOps processes and tooling for the delivery of IaaS and PaaS services using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Produce and contribute to high quality documentation.

All of this will be done with the support and collaboration of our Cloud Platform Team; and we would like you to contribute to technical decisions and team development initiatives in our collaborative environment.

You will have experience in:

• Leading on technical designs based on customer requirements, communicating to both technical and non-technical audiences. 
• Delivery of Azure technologies and solutions that are highly available, high performing, and secure, according to best practices noted in the Cloud Adoption Framework and Well Architected Framework. 
• Working with Cloud native solutions and services.
• Network and security solutions and services. 
• Using DevOps and IaC tooling.
• Identifying solutions for Cloud deployments
• Identifying project issues or blockers and take the lead in resolution.
• Being passionate about continual learning and development to keep track of emerging technologies.
• Having good commercial awareness and be able to articulate the commercial impacts of technical challenges and opportunities.