Overview
We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect to design a resilient contingency hosting environment for a client. This hands-on role involves creating comprehensive technical designs, focusing on networking and security, while ensuring business continuity during an ongoing cloud migration. The successful candidate will collaborate with technical teams, providing architectural guidance and creating high-quality documentation.
Responsibilities
- Produce end-to-end infrastructure architecture and technical design documentation.
- Design resilient infrastructure, network, and security solutions for a contingency hosting environment.
- Define operational models, support processes, and implementation approaches.
- Collaborate with technical stakeholders to validate designs and ensure alignment across infrastructure domains.
- Identify technical risks and recommend pragmatic mitigation strategies.
- Provide architectural guidance throughout the design phase.
Requirements
- Proven experience working as an Infrastructure Architect on complex IT programmes.
- Strong networking architecture experience, including enterprise network design and connectivity.
- Broad infrastructure knowledge across compute, storage, virtualization, and enterprise platforms.
- Experience designing secure, resilient, and highly available infrastructure environments.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure security principles and operational support models.
- Ability to produce detailed technical architecture documentation and communicate designs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.