Chief Infrastructure Architect

London - UK

Monthly Salary: £ 140000 - 210000

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Chief Infrastructure Architect

About the position

Product and Engineering is looking for a Chief Infrastructure Architect to play a pivotal role in designing implementing and maintaining robust scalable and secure infrastructure solutions that bridge both on-premises and cloud environments. You will lead our strategy for physical and cloud networking and drive our orchestration platform initiatives (such as Kubernetes) ensuring seamless integration and high availability for our mission-critical applications. You will be a strategic partner to our Security and FinOps teams to deliver the highest levels of security and cost efficiency.

Key Responsibilities:

Develop and oversee the enterprise infrastructure architecturefocusing on both physical (on-premises) and cloud (AWS) networking strategies.
Design and implement orchestration platforms(e.g. Kubernetes) establishing standards for deployment scalability and security.
Lead hybrid cloud initiativesensuring optimal integration between on-premises data centers and AWS cloud resources.
Collaborate with software engineering DevOps and security teamsto ensure infrastructure aligns with application needs and organizational policies.
Establish and maintain infrastructure documentationfor architecture standards and procedures.
Evaluate and recommend new technologiesand tools that enhance infrastructure reliability performance and cost-efficiency.
Drive automation effortsacross provisioning deployment and monitoring using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and related tools.
Ensure robust disaster recovery failover and backup strategiesare in place across all environments.
Mentor and guide technical teamson best practices for working in hybrid environments and with orchestration platforms.

Essential Skills and Experience:

10 years of experiencein infrastructure architecture or related roles.
In-depth expertise with hybrid cloud environments(on-premises and AWS).
Strong understanding of networking concepts(routing firewalls VPNs load balancing) across physical and cloud infrastructures.
Advanced experience with orchestration platforms especially Kubernetes (K8s) including architecture deployment and management.
Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code(e.g. Terraform CloudFormation).
Experience designing for security reliability and scalabilityin hybrid and cloud particular IAM policies network segmentation AWS Security Policies and understanding of implications of compliance frameworks (SOC2 GDPR FedRAMP)
Excellent communication skillsable to document and articulate complex technical topics to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications:

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field.
AWS Solutions Architect certification or equivalent.
Experience with additional cloud providers (e.g. Azure GCP).
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps culture.
Background in technical documentation or architecture diagramming.

The base salary range for this position is 140000 - 210000 base benefits. This reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for this position. This position may also be eligible for incentive plans and other related benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role level and location. These factors and individual capabilities will also determine the individual pay offered.

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Chief Infrastructure ArchitectAbout the positionProduct and Engineering is looking for a Chief Infrastructure Architect to play a pivotal role in designing implementing and maintaining robust scalable and secure infrastructure solutions that bridge both on-premises and cloud environments. You will l...