Solution Architect - Defence

Solutions Architect

• Location:
  
  Bristol (North East/ with Parking)
• Job Type: Full-time/4 days on site
• Salary £67,056 to £72,107

Solutions Architect to play a strategic and hands-on role in the design, development, and governance of enterprise infrastructure solutions across secure on-premises, hybrid, and private cloud environments. This role is crucial within a highly regulated defence environment, focusing on Microsoft-based enterprise ecosystems alongside virtualisation, networking, and storage platforms. The successful candidate will define scalable, resilient, and supportable infrastructure architectures that meet both operational and business requirements.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Produce high-level and low-level infrastructure designs (HLDs and LLDs) across various environments, ensuring alignment with business, operational, and technical requirements.
• Define and maintain enterprise infrastructure standards, reference architectures, and design principles covering compute, storage, networking, virtualisation, and hybrid integration.
• Lead technical discovery activities to assess existing infrastructure environments, identify technical debt, dependencies, and opportunities for modernisation.
• Translate business requirements into scalable and resilient infrastructure designs in collaboration with project managers, architec...