Infrastructure Architect

Guildford - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Experience Required: 5years

Posted on: 12 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Role Summary

The Infrastructure Technical Architect is responsible for designing delivering and maintaining secure scalable and cost-efficient infrastructure solutions that support critical business applications and services. This role works closely with engineering security operations and business stakeholders to define architectural roadmaps technical standards and best practices across cloud on-premises and hybrid environments.

Key Responsibilities

Design and architect end-to-end infrastructure solutions across public cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) and on-premises environments ensuring alignment with performance availability security and compliance requirements.
Develop and maintain infrastructure reference architectures standards and reusable design patterns covering networking compute storage virtualization containers and platform services.
Lead infrastructure modernization initiatives including cloud migrations data center consolidation and platform upgrades.
Collaborate with application DevOps and security teams to ensure seamless integration automation and secure configuration of infrastructure services.
Drive automation using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform CloudFormation ARM Ansible etc.) and CI/CD practices to improve consistency and reduce manual work.
Assess new infrastructure technologies conduct proof-of-concepts and recommend cost-effective scalable solutions.
Lead capacity planning performance optimization and cost-management activities including lifecycle governance for infrastructure components.
Define and support high-availability disaster recovery business continuity and backup strategies.
Produce and maintain architectural documentation including solution diagrams standards runbooks technical recommendations and impact assessments.
Mentor engineering and operations teams through design reviews architecture coaching and technical guidance.
Participate in incident reviews and postmortems identifying architectural improvements to enhance stability and prevent recurrence.

Required Experience & Qualifications

Demonstrated experience in architecting and delivering enterprise-grade infrastructure solutions in hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.
Hands-on experience with at least one major public cloud (AWS Azure GCP) and strong understanding of cloud-native architectures.
Strong foundation in networking (routing switching load balancing VPN DNS) virtualization (VMware Hyper-V) and storage architectures.
Experience with containerization and orchestration platforms (Docker Kubernetes).
Deep understanding of infrastructure security including IAM network segmentation encryption and vulnerability management.
Practical experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform Ansible CloudFormation etc.).
Familiarity with observability and monitoring platforms (e.g. Prometheus Grafana ELK/EFK Datadog).
Experience with high-availability design disaster recovery planning backup technologies and capacity planning.
Strong communication skills with the ability to present technical options and trade-offs to varied stakeholder groups.
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Certifications

Cloud certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Google Professional Cloud Architect.
Infrastructure/architecture certifications including TOGAF CCNA/CCNP VMware VCP.
Security or DevOps-related certifications (e.g. CISSP CISM HashiCorp Certified) are advantageous.

Behavioral & Leadership Competencies

Strategic forward-thinking mindset with a focus on delivering practical solutions.
Strong problem-solving capabilities especially in ambiguous or complex environments.
Ability to influence and collaborate across diverse technical and business teams.
Commitment to mentoring team enablement and knowledge sharing.
Customer-focused approach with an emphasis on operational excellence.

Success Metrics / KPIs

Reduced unplanned downtime and recurrence of infrastructure-related incidents.
Successful delivery of modernization projects and migrations on schedule and within defined scope.
Increased automation coverage and improved deployment quality.
Demonstrable cost optimization and improved resource utilization.
Increased adoption of architectural standards across infrastructure teams.

Working Context

Works in close partnership with Development Security Operations and Product teams.
May require occasional travel for stakeholder coordination or vendor engagements.
Suitable for onsite hybrid or remote working arrangements depending on organizational needs.

Role SummaryThe Infrastructure Technical Architect is responsible for designing delivering and maintaining secure scalable and cost-efficient infrastructure solutions that support critical business applications and services. This role works closely with engineering security operations and business s...