Infrastructure Cloud Architect

Overview:

Would you like to help enrich the lives of learners around the world?

At RM, we’ve been pioneers of education technology since 1973. We provide technology and resources to the education sector, supporting over 20 million students and improving educational outcomes worldwide.

What we do helps learners at all stages of their lives, from preschool to higher education and professional qualification; we partner with schools, examination boards, governments, and professional organisations globally to make learning more accessible, more engaging, and more impactful.

RM operates through three divisions: Assessment (digital assessment and marking solutions), Technology (managed services, hardware, and software for schools), and TTS (educational resources).

Within the assessment market we are experts in providing solutions for online exam testing and marking and the management and analysis of educational data. We work with government ministries, exam boards and professional awarding bodies for high stakes assessment such as GCSEs, A Levels, and professional qualifications. Each year, our software is used globally to conduct hundreds of thousands of on-screen tests and to mark millions of paper-based scripts. For over a decade we have been partnering with the world’s leading awarding bodies to deliver intuitive, secure, and reliable e-marking solutions.

Visit our website to find out more: www.rm.com/assessment

We encourage early applications as the vacancy may close once the position has been filled or final interviews have been arranged.

Responsibilities:

You will contribute to the quality of our infrastructure design. Ensuring the highest standards, consistent patterns, and a best of breed approach to infrastructure design will be second nature to you. You will be a key collaborator with our Product Architects, challenging their decisions and working closely to optimize technical designs. Your insights and expertise will be instrumental in translating conceptual designs into tangible technical deliverables that deliver infrastructure designs to meet business requirements with high availability and controlled costs.

Key responsibilities:

• Contribute to reference architectures and reusable patterns for Azure infrastructure.
• Design secure, performant and supportable architectures for delivery by RM’s Infrastructure Engineering team.
• Ensure designs include observability, resilience, and security by design
• Ensure designs are scalable, available, control costs, and provide cost reporting capabilities.
• Work with technical architects, development leads and project teams to ensure changes to infrastructure and processes align with best practice and with a customer-led focus.

Experience:

Experience

• Deep knowledge of the Microsoft Azure ecosystem.
• Solid understanding of Security, IAM, Networking, and Database concepts.
• Experience in designing, understanding, and troubleshooting complex distributed systems.
• Familiarity with standard project lifecycle processes.
• Time management skills: ability to understand business impact and prioritise tasks accordingly.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, a highly personable, engaging approach and a strong alignment to RM's core values: Customer success, high standards, respect for others, innovation, openness and enjoyment at work.
• Excellent collaboration skills.
• Good working knowledge of the following products: Gitlab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Docker, Terraform, Bash, Packer, Ansible.