Join us as a Solution Designer to support the ongoing efforts to virtualise the banks infrastructure in a controlled, quality‑oriented and repeatable manner. The Solution Designer sits within the Service Delivery Team, based in York, UK and Whippany, and is accountable for managing infrastructure demand and optimisation on an ongoing basis, as well as providing specialised support in various GTIS technologies split across both private and public cloud. You will support the migration of applications to next‑generation virtualised platforms.
You will work with stakeholders and application teams to understand functional and non‑functional requirements, develop repeatable patterns and innovative approaches to migrations, and provide feedback to engineering teams with requests for enhancement to ensure the platforms can support the widest number of use cases.
Responsibilities
* Manage infrastructure demand and optimisation on an ongoing basis.
* Provide specialised support for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), VMware VCenter, ESX, vRA, vRO, vROPs and related technologies across private and public clouds.
* Design and develop solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling.
* Apply appropriate workload placement strategies to maximise the benefit of cloud capabilities such as elasticity, serverless, and containerisation.
* Incorporate best‑practice designs that embed security principles (defence in depth, blast radius reduction) to meet the bank’s resiliency expectations.
* Balance risks and controls to deliver agreed business and technology value.
* Adopt standardised solutions where appropriate, and contribute to the evolution of solutions that do not fit existing standards.
* Support fault finding and performance issue resolution for operational support teams, leveraging available tooling.
* Assess solution design impact in terms of risk, capacity, cost, and estimate project change and ongoing run costs.
* Develop architecture inputs required for compliance with governance processes, including design artefacts for architecture, privacy, security, and records management.
* Feedback enhancements to engineering teams based on stakeholder requirements.
Qualifications
* Experienced in VMware Cloud Foundation products, SDDC, VMware VCenter, ESX 6.x / 7.x, vRA, vRO, vROPs.
* Capacity to troubleshoot technical issues.
* Strong documentation skills using Confluence and other information repositories.
* Good understanding of network technologies, including VMware NSX‑V and NSX‑T.
* Certifications: VMware 6.5 Data Center Virtualisation (VCP6.5‑DCV) or equivalent preferred, VMware‑Network Virtualisation (VCP6‑NV) a big plus.
* Experience with containerisation platforms such as OpenShift, Kubevirt, Harvester.
* Some other highly valued skills may include risk and controls assessment, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital/technology proficiency.
The role will be based out of our Knutsford office.
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