Infrastructure Architect

Infrastructure Architect

Rate range: £375pd Inside IR35

Warwick - Hybrid, 1 day WFO per week

3 months (with possibility of extension to 1 year or more)

The Infrastructure Architect is responsible for designing and governing enterprise infrastructure across on-prem data centre and AWS cloud, ensuring scalability, resilience, security, and performance optimization across compute, storage, and network layers.

The role plays a key part in hybrid transformation, integrating legacy systems with cloud-native architectures.

Key Responsibilities:

Architecture & Design

Capacity & Performance Engineering

AWS Cloud Architecture

Dev Ops & Automation

Security & Compliance

Operations & Governance

Stakeholder & Delivery Leadership

Required Technical Skills

On-Prem Infrastructure

• Compute: AIX, Linux (RHEL), Windows

• Virtualization: VMware (ESXi, vCenter)

• Storage: SAN/NAS, backup solutions

• Network:

o Cisco routing & switching (DC + WAN)

o Load balancers (e.g., Net Scaler)

AWS Cloud

• Core Services:

o EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM

• Networking:

o Transit Gateway, Direct Connect

• Security:

o IAM, WAF, Shield

• HA & DR design

Hybrid Architecture

• Site-to-site VPN / Direct Connect

• Multi-DC + Cloud DR strategy

• Data migration and modernization

Dev Ops / Automation

• IaC:
Terraform / Cloud Formation

• Scripting:
Python / Bash

• CI/CD:
Jenkins / Git pipelines

• Containers:
Docker, Kubernetes (EKS preferred)

Monitoring & Observability

• Cloud Watch, Grafana, Prometheus

• Enterprise tools (Dynatrace / App Dynamics etc.)