Data Centre Architect

Location: Heath Charnock

JD The role provides L2 architectural ownership, supporting solution design, resilience, capacity, and operational stability under the guidance of senior architects. Data Centre Architecture & Design Design and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available data centre infrastructure architectures. Create low level and high level designs (LLD/HLD) for on prem and hybrid DC environments. Support architecture decisions for server, storage, network, backup, and virtualisation platforms.

Ensure designs comply with enterprise standards, security baselines, and regulatory requirements. Infrastructure Platforms Ownership Provide L2 architectural support for: oCompute (Bare metal, x86 platforms) oVirtualisation (VMware / Hyper V) oStorage (SAN/NAS, backup & replication) oData centre networking (core, aggregation, access layers) Work closely with operations teams to ensure design to run alignment. Reliability, Capacity & Resilience Design DC architectures for high availability, redundancy, DR, and fault tolerance.

Support capacity planning, performance optimisation, and lifecycle management. Participate in failure analysis, RCA reviews, and corrective architecture enhancements. Ensure infrastructure designs minimise single points of failure. Operational & Governance Support Act as L2 escalation point for complex DC infrastructure issues. Support change reviews, impact assessments, and risk analysis. Ensure alignment with ITIL processes for Incident, Problem, and Change Management. Support audits and compliance assessments for data centre services.

Hybrid & Cloud Alignment Support integration of on prem DC with private cloud and public cloud landing zones. Assist in hybrid architecture patterns, workload placement, and migration readiness. Ensure data centre designs align with future cloud extensibility.