Senior Platform Architect

OpticoreIT; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 129,150 - 184,500; Full time

Job summary

Opticore IT in London seeks a Senior Platform Architect to lead the design and delivery of cloud infrastructure for a 6-month contract inside IR35. The role requires one day onsite per week in White City, London, with work alongside post-production and solutions architects to translate requirements into viable, cost-effective cloud architecture.

The successful candidate will design and deploy media workflows in AWS, focusing on GPU-accelerated workstations, Teradici/ DCV streaming, zero-trust

Qualifications

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification.
• Hands-on AWS architecture or platform engineering experience.
• Expertise in AWS networking and IAM design.
• Experience with multi-tenancy and per-tenant isolation.
• Experience with VDI/Remote desktop solutions (Teradici, DVC, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy a simple proxy and full resolution video editing in AWS cloud using GPU-accelerated workstations where necessary.
• Make use of appropriate streaming infrastructure such as Teradici / Amazon DCV to cater for editors distributed across offices, home, etc.
• Design for locations without Direct Connect and for remote work via the public Internet maintaining zero trust security.
• Optimise storage with AWS storage tiering to minimise storage, transaction and retrieval costs.
• Design storage software atop AWS object storage to provide file system support for apps that don’t natively support object storage.

Education

AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification

Hands-on AWS architecture or platform engineering

Expertise in AWS networking

IAM design

Multi-tenancy: logical isolation

VDI/Remote desktop solutions (Teradici etc)

Tools

Teradici

Amazon DCV

Job description

Opticore IT is a specialist Network Engineer and Project Management consultancy offering a wide variety of opportunities to work within fast-paced, challenging environments across our client base spanning multiple sectors including Finance, Broadcast Media, Telecommunications and more.
Opticore IT are currently searching for a Senior Platform Architect to lead the technical design and delivery of cloud infrastructure. You\'ll join our excelling team, based in the London area for a 6-month contract inside IR35. This role requires one day onsite in White City per week.
This opportunity will work alongside experienced post-production architects and solutions architects who understand media workflows deeply, translating their requirements into viable, cost-effective, cloud architecture.
What you\'ll be doing:

• Design and deploy a simple proxy and full resolution video editing in AWS cloud using GPU-accelerated workstations where necessary.
• Make use of appropriate streaming infrastructure such as Teradici / Amazon DCV to cater for the various network links where editors may be based such as in offices, at home etc.
• Design for locations that do not have Direct Connect and for those working from home via the Public Internet maintaining zero trust security.
• Making use of organisations agreed AWS Private Pricing, design an optimised storage solution that appropriately tiers content to the correct class of AWS storage to minimise storage, transaction and retrieval costs.
• Design for the integration of appropriate storage software on top of AWS object storage to provide File System support for the applications that need it, i.e. those which do not support object storage natively.

What you\'ll bring:

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification
• Hands-on AWS architecture or platform engineering
• Expertise in AWS networking
• IAM design
• Multi-tenancy: logical isolation patterns, shared infrastructure with per-tenant boundaries
• Experience with VDI/Remote desktop solutions (DVC, Teradici etc)

Diversity:
At Opticore IT we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We actively recruit for an inclusive and diverse workforce and as such, want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.
We want you to feel empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made with your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.