Cloud Architect London, England
Job description
Gallagher is a global leader in insurance, risk management and consulting services. We help businesses grow, communities thrive and people prosper. We live a culture defined by The Gallagher Way, our set of shared values and guiding tenets. A culture driven by our people, over 40,000 strong, serving our clients with customized solutions that will protect them and fuel their futures.
The Gallagher Global Enterprises team have a great opportunity for a Cloud Architect to join their team. You will be responsible for the creation of a technology framework and providing technical leadership in support of AJG initiatives in cloud computing and automation, with a focus on the design of systems and services that run on cloud platforms.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Demonstrate knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability)
- Demonstrate knowledge of DevOps tool chains and processes
- Develop a library of deployable and documented cloud design patterns, based on the AJG application portfolio, as a basis for deploying services to the cloud
- Demonstrate leadership ability to back decisions with research and the “why,” and articulate several options, the pros and cons for each, and a recommendation
- Maintain overall industry knowledge on the latest trends, technology, etc.
- Develop solutions architecture and evaluate architectural alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services
- Contribute to DevOps development activities and complex development tasks
- Define optimal design patterns and solutions for high availability and disaster recovery for cloud applications
- Troubleshoot and resolution of complex problems within the infrastructure
- Work on designing/implementing/automation procedures for deployment, configuration, patching and upgrading of systems and applications
- Conduct analysis of production systems and performance testing results to identify areas of improvement within the application or infrastructure
- Conduct feasibility studies for existing and emerging cloud technologies
- Provide mentoring and guidance for mid and junior level staff, offering feedback targeted at individual development
- Work closely with vendors, internal groups and outside agencies to provide technical leadership and solutions
- Independently analyse, solve, and correct issues in real time, providing problem resolution end-to-end.
- Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes
- Perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities after hours.
- Share domain and technical expertise, providing technical mentorship and cross-training to other peers and team members.
Your Skills, Qualifications and Experience:
- Proven experience spanning at least two IT disciplines, including technical cloud architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or operations
- Experience with Azure Shell scripting/PowerShell scripting
- Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
- Hands on experience designing and deploying complex solutions in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or other cloud providers;
- Excellent presentation and communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences.
What we offer you:
- Hybrid working
- Competitive salary
- 27 days holiday + UK bank holidays
- Company pension scheme (7% Employer contribution)
- Income protection
- Life Assurance - x4 basic salary
- Bupa Healthcare
We want Gallagher to be the organisation that all our people are proud to be a part of and where everyone can call themselves one of our team. Where our culture is embracing of difference, where you can be the best and, perhaps most importantly, be yourself.
We are all different in some way. If we were all the same, and all thought the same, we would be vulnerable as a group. By welcoming and encouraging diverse opinions and backgrounds within our organisation, we will have a healthier, more innovative and ultimately more profitable business.
If this sounds like somewhere you’d like to join, we'd love to hear from you!
Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. Gallagher is committed to diversity of opportunity for all and is opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.
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