Role Title: Infrastructure Designer
Location: Manchester
Duration: 6 months
Rate to inside IR35 £469.88
MUST BE THROUGH UMBRELLA
Role Description
* Produce infrastructure design documentation based on a solution architecture to be implemented by a 3rd party supplier.
* Coordinate estimates for inclusion in end-to-end project costs and business cases and assist with the estimates for the end-to-end IT costs.
* Provide leadership within projects of technical resources SMEs.
* Input to infrastructure solution frameworks and patterns, displaying awareness of external markets and suppliers, so that best value for money and service is delivered.
* Ensure clear root cause is established for incidents impacting the deliverables of the Infrastructure CoE and that these issues are addressed.
* 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.
* Involve with 3rd parties to design product integration to existing / new solutions.
* 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.
* Provide technical escalation point during build phase of new production services.
Knowledge, skills and experience required
* 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, liaison with business partners and customers and external IT service providers.
* Excellent technical authoring skills.
Additional desirable technical skills
* Mainframe (CICS, COBOL, Objscatter, 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, DataStage etc.)
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