Infrastructure Designer

Infrastructure Designer – 12 month contract initially based in Manchester (hybrid – 2-3 days per week onsite). Rate: £400–£450 p/d via umbrella company.

• Produce infrastructure design documentation based on a solution architecture to be implemented by a 3rd party supplier.
• Coordinate accurate estimates for inclusion in end‑to‑end project costs and business cases and assist with estimates for the Co‑operative Bank.
• Lead technical resources and SMEs within projects.
• Input to infrastructure solution frameworks and patterns with awareness of external markets and suppliers to deliver best value for money and service.
• Establish clear root cause for incidents impacting the Infrastructure CoE deliverables and address these issues.
• Work with 3rd‑party supplier build teams, development and test environment leads to ensure solutions implemented across the Bank project portfolio are compliant to design.
• Design product integration with existing / new solutions in collaboration with 3rd parties.
• Act as a technical escalation point and convene troubleshooting teams to ensure rapid identification and resolution of infrastructure issues.
• Provide design inputs to areas of expertise such as Mainframe, Networks, Wintel, Database or Connect:
  
  Direct.
• Produce and assure design patterns.
• Produce and assure Infrastructure Roadmaps.
• Provide technical escalation point for production services and during build phase of new production services.

• Extensive experience in VMware platforms and infrastructure solutions, networking environments & firewall knowledge.
• Extensive expertise in leading infrastructure solution, design and process improvement activities within an IT operational environment resulting in improved efficiency, performance and financial benefit.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills for dealing with internal management and teams, liaising with business partners and customers and external IT service providers.
• Excellent technical authoring skills.

• Mainframe (CICS, COBOL, Object Star, CA Datacom, VSAM etc.)
• UNIX Environments (AIX, Linux, Solaris etc.)
• Wintel / Storage / Desktop Environments
• Data Centre Hosting
• Cloud Services and integration
• Mobile and BYOD
• Middleware and Integration (IBM Message Broker, Data Stage etc.)

This is an excellent opportunity on a great project of work. If you are looking for your next exciting opportunity, apply now with your CV to reach the recruiter directly and we will respond as soon as possible.