Salary: £42,000 - 50,160 per year Requirements: Extensive experience with VMware platforms, infrastructure solutions, and networking and firewall technologies. Proven track record leading infrastructure solution design and process improvement within an IT operational environment. Strong ability to deliver measurable improvements in efficiency, performance, and cost. Excellent communication and influencing skills, working with senior stakeholders, business partners, and external suppliers. High-quality technical documentation and authoring skills. Desirable: Experience with mainframe technologies (e.g. CICS, COBOL, Objectstar, CA Datacom, VSAM). Desirable: Experience with UNIX environments (AIX, Linux, Solaris). Desirable: Familiarity with Wintel, Storage, and Desktop environments. Desirable: Knowledge of Data Centre hosting and cloud services and integration. Desirable: Understanding of mobile and BYOD technologies. Desirable: Experience with middleware and integration (e.g. IBM Message Broker, DataStage). Responsibilities: Produce detailed infrastructure design documentation based on approved solution architectures. Coordinate and validate accurate cost estimates for end-to-end project delivery and business cases. Provide technical leadership to project teams, SMEs, and third-party suppliers. Contribute to and maintain infrastructure solution frameworks, patterns, and standards, ensuring best value for money. Ensure clear root cause analysis for incidents impacting Infrastructure CoE deliverables and drive resolution. Work closely with third-party build teams and environment leads to ensure solutions comply with approved designs. Support the design and integration of new products into existing and new solutions. Act as a technical escalation point, convening troubleshooting teams to rapidly resolve infrastructure issues. Provide design input across multiple technology domains (e.g. Mainframe, Networks, Wintel, Databases). Produce and assure design patterns and infrastructure roadmaps. Act as a technical escalation point for production services and during the build phase of new services. Technologies: Cloud COBOL Firewall IBM Support Linux Mobile Unix VMware UX UI Design More: We are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Designer to join our team for an 11-month contract based in Manchester, with a hybrid work arrangement of 3 days in the office per week. In this role, you will work within a large-scale enterprise environment focusing on the design and delivery of complex infrastructure solutions. You will have the opportunity to lead technical projects and ensure that our designs are robust, compliant, cost-effective, and aligned with strategic roadmaps. last updated 5 week of 2026