Senior Infrastructure Architect

Role summary:

Applicants should have detailed knowledge of IT Infrastructure, covering public cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and on premises data centre solutions. Prior experience as a Technical Architect is essential, along with strong skills in engaging stakeholders, collaborating across a range of technical and business disciplines to agree solutions, and presenting technical proposals and designs to review boards.

Core Duties/Responsibilities:

Maintaining engagement with the wider Equiniti environment by creating and communicating standards, governance processes, approved architecture models, systems and technologies deployed and corporate and IT strategies.

• Work across a range of EQ projects including data centre to AWS migration, platform upgrades, and new product implementations.
• Act as a key resource in the project lifecycle, driving initiation, reviewing requirements, completing the infrastructure design, and providing technical oversight for implementation teams.
• Support project initiation by providing cost and complexity assessments, engaging with stakeholders, and helping to define the scope of activities.
• Review requirements and undertake discovery activities to propose technical solutions that meet business needs while meeting technical standards for quality, supportability, and cost.
• Produce high quality technical designs and support the creation of build documentation providing effective technical solutions to EQ business requirements.
• Participate in architecture design reviews and other technical governance forums across the organisation representing the infrastructure architecture team across multiple projects.
• Contribute to knowledge management by adding to and supporting the maintenance of infrastructure architecture artifact repositories.
• Contribute to the definition and maintenance of architectural, security and technical standards, reflecting evolving technology and emerging best practice.
• Promote improvements to processes and standards within architecture teams, and the wider technology function.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience:

• Skilled communicator, comfortable engaging a range of stakeholders, and capable of understanding business requirements and translating them into technical solutions.
• Experience creating high quality multi-tiered infrastructure designs for new and existing application services in accordance with defined standards.
• Experienced at providing cost estimates for on-premises and public cloud solutions.
• Experience across a range of data centre technologies such as server, storage, networks, virtualisation solutions.
• Experience of designing infrastructure solutions for public cloud platforms (AWS/Azure).
• Experience of working with complex network topologies and familiarity with a range of network technologies across on-premises and cloud environments.
• A track record of successfully achieving project deadlines, budgets, and meeting quality standards.
• Technical certification and knowledge of architecture and delivery frameworks a distinct advantage (AWS / Azure Solution Architect, CCNA, M365, TOGAF, Prince2, Agile).

Technical Ability:

In depth experience of proposing and designing technical solutions in across a wide range of technologies in an Enterprise environment.

• Core Microsoft technologies such as: Active Directory, Exchange, Hyper-V, M365, SharePoint, SQL, Windows Server.
• Public cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
• Deployment, configuration management and monitoring systems such as Terraform, Puppet, and New Relic.
• High availability and load balancing including Microsoft clustering and hardware load balancers.
• Physical infrastructure such as data centres, server hardware, hypervisors, SAN storage solutions, and network infrastructure.
• Infrastructure security platforms, tooling, and vulnerability assessment.
• Secure File Transfer Platforms such as Progress MoveIT.
• Familiarity with designing solutions to support a range of commercially available and bespoke applications.