Infrastructure Architect

• On-premises infrastructure
• Virtualisation
• Scalable compute environments
• Secure infrastructure design

We are looking for Infrastructure Architects and experienced Cloud Infrastructure professionals to design and support secure, resilient, scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective infrastructure across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

The role focuses on designing the infrastructure foundation for modern enterprise solutions, with particular emphasis on cloud platforms, compute, storage, networking, containerisation, Infrastructure-as-Code, high availability, disaster recovery, and data-intensive/AI/ML workloads.

Candidates with different levels of experience are encouraged to apply, from strong infrastructure/cloud engineers looking to move into architecture through to experienced Infrastructure Architects.

• Design end-to-end infrastructure architectures across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments
• Define architecture across compute, storage, networking, databases, and platform services based on business and technical requirements
• Design infrastructure requirements for data-intensive and AI/ML workloads, including GPU compute, high-throughput storage, scalable processing, and inference environments
• Establish and maintain standards for Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), environment management, automation, and configuration consistency
• Design highly available infrastructure architectures with appropriate backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, RTO and RPO requirements
• Ensure infrastructure designs meet security, compliance, data residency, and regulatory requirements
• Perform capacity planning and cost optimisation, including resource right-sizing based on workload requirements
• Review infrastructure architecture and technical changes and provide guidance to infrastructure, cloud, DevSecOps, and engineering teams
• Support implementation teams by providing architecture guidance, technical standards, and recommended design patterns
• Evaluate emerging cloud and infrastructure technologies and provide recommendations for adoption where appropriate
• Contribute to infrastructure modernization, cloud migration, scalability, resilience, and performance improvement initiatives

Experience with one or more major cloud platforms:

• AWS
• Microsoft Azure
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Hybrid cloud environments
• On-premises infrastructure

Candidates with strong expertise in one cloud platform are welcome, while multi-cloud experience will be an advantage.

Strong understanding of infrastructure architecture across:

• Compute
• Networking
• Storage
• Virtualisation
• Load balancing
• High availability
• Disaster recovery
• Backup and recovery
• Business continuity
• Performance and capacity planning

Experience with:

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Container orchestration
• Container-based infrastructure
• Cloud-native platform architectures

Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management tools such as:

• Terraform
• AWS CloudFormation
• Azure Bicep
• Ansible
• Other infrastructure automation tools

Strong understanding of environment management, configuration consistency, automation, and repeatable infrastructure deployment is required.

Experience designing infrastructure for data-intensive and AI/ML workloads is highly desirable.

Relevant experience may include:

• GPU compute infrastructure
• High-throughput storage
• Scalable compute environments
• AI/ML infrastructure
• Model training infrastructure
• Model inference environments
• Data processing workloads
• Performance and capacity optimisation for AI/ML workloads

Strong understanding of:

• Infrastructure security
• Security architecture
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Authentication and authorization
• Network security
• Cloud security
• Data protection
• Compliance requirements
• Data residency
• Secure infrastructure design

The successful candidate should be able to incorporate security and compliance requirements into infrastructure architecture rather than treating them as an afterthought.