Infrastructure Architect

Location: Hampshire - Basingstoke, 5 days a week office based
Working Pattern: On site, customer premises
Type: Contract, outside IR35
Rate: Open to discussion
Clearance: UK Sole National with active DV Clearance
Company: Tektora, supporting a leading Defence and National Security IT provider

Tektora are supporting a leading Defence and National Security IT provider who are looking to speak with DV Cleared Infrastructure Architects for a contract opportunity working as part of a multi-skilled agile team spanning security, service and management.

This role would suit someone with extensive secure large-scale infrastructure design experience who is comfortable working directly with senior customer stakeholders and is looking to develop further across secure architecture and service transition.

You will be involved in:

• Owning all aspects of the delivery of technical proposals, ensuring alignment to the client's vision
• Reporting into the CTO Lead Architect for the customer
• Working directly with customers to define and elaborate infrastructure requirements
• Designing infrastructure solutions to be compliant with security standards
• Deploying production implementations through to successful project completion and service transition
• Managing third parties and requests for change, ensuring no impact on the overall architectural solution
• Interacting across multiple internal areas and senior customer stakeholders to drive collaboration across the delivery lifecycle
• Working as part of a multi-skilled agile team where cross training is expected and challenges are shared

• UK Sole National with active DV Clearance
• Client facing skills at a senior level, communicating ideas to senior executives
• Extensive knowledge of the design and implementation of secure, highly resilient, large-scale infrastructures
• Experience working directly with customers to define and elaborate infrastructure requirements
• Experience deploying production implementations through to service transition
• Experience designing infrastructure solutions compliant with security standards
• Knowledge of Microsoft Windows systems administration in an enterprise environment, including GPO, Registry, File system, Power Shell, WMI, Windows Update and Windows Installer
• Experience in the development and delivery of software using Agile methodologies
• Prior delivery within a Defence or National Security programme
• Experience managing third parties and change control against an architectural baseline
• Relevant architecture certification such as TOGAF

Tektora are looking to speak with DV Cleared Infrastructure Architects who are open to contract opportunities and keen to develop further across secure infrastructure design and Defence programme delivery.