Infrastruture Architect

Requirements

We are seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure Architect to lead the assessment of a complex enterprise technology environment within the defence industry. You will take an application-centric view of the supporting infrastructure, bringing together specialist teams to understand the current estate, its dependencies and the causes of performance and user‑experience issues.

The role requires broad infrastructure knowledge, strong technical leadership and the ability to turn complex evidence into clear findings, practical recommendations and a prioritised improvement roadmap.

• Lead mobilisation, discovery planning and technical governance.
• Coordinate specialists across application, compute, virtualisation, storage, database, network, security and service operations.
• Document the current estate, architecture, dependencies and critical data flows.
• Establish an end‑to‑end performance baseline and lead evidence‑based investigation of service issues.
• Facilitate technical workshops and align internal teams, partners and suppliers around agreed findings.
• Produce clear architecture outputs, recommendations and a prioritised improvement roadmap.
• Creation of all design artifacts, used through the project lifecycle
• Technical Owner for the project transformation and remediation phases

• Proven experience as a Senior or Lead Infrastructure Architect in a complex enterprise environment.
• Broad knowledge of compute, VMware, physical infrastructure, storage, databases, networks, firewalls and security services.
• Strong experience of infrastructure discovery, current‑state architecture and dependency mapping.
• Practical understanding of performance analysis, monitoring, capacity, availability, backup and disaster recovery.
• Ability to lead technical specialists and coordinate multiple infrastructure work streams.
• Strong problem‑solving, root‑cause analysis and evidence‑based decision‑making skills.
• Creation of all design artifacts, used through the project lifecycle
• SC Clearence

• Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
• Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
• Strong, inspiring and thought‑provoking leadership
• A supportive and collaborative environment.

• Development access to Linked In Learning, a management development programme and training
• Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme
• Social – Breakfast Tuesdays, Thirsty Thursdays and Pizza on the last Thursday of each month as well as commitment to charitable causes
• Time off 25 days a year
• Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution
• Discretionary Company Bonus based on company and individual performance
• Life Assurance of 4 times base salary
• Private Medical Insurance which is non‑contributory (spouse and dependants included)
• Worldwide Travel Insurance which is non‑contributory (spouse and dependants included)