Role Title: DDI Architect Duration: contract to run until 28/11/2026 Location: Sheffield, Hybrid 3 days per week onsite Rate: up to £533.60 p/d Umbrella inside IR35 Role purpose / summary DDI (DNS, DHCP & IPAM) Subject Matter Expert We are seeking a highly skilled DDI (DNS, DHCP & IPAM) subject matter expert with extensive experience in the DDI technology space. Key Responsibilities: Infrastructure Projects : Demonstrated experience in planning, implementing, and supporting large-scale DDI infrastructure projects, including both physical (servers, appliances) and logical (software versions, product changes, data migrations) upgrades and migrations. Design and Deployment : Expertise in designing, deploying, and operationalizing DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) infrastructure across new environments, ensuring a consumable and scalable service for internal stakeholders. Risk Management : Solid understanding of risk assessment and management, including the ability to address headwind challenges and assess downstream user or service impacts. Communication Skills : Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work constructively and collaboratively within a team as well as independently, across time zones, geographies, and languages. Proficiency in English is essential. Project Management : Understanding of industry-standard project management methodologies, tooling, and governance, with a proven track record of planning, documenting, and managing infrastructure project implementations. Technical Expertise : Must have expert-level engineering experience with DDI technologies such as Cygna VitalQIP, AMS & AMM's, EfficientIP, Infoblox, and F5 BIG-IP DNS. Network Protocols : Experience with network protocols including TCP/IP, UDP, and DNS. Automation and Scripting: Familiarity with automation and scripting languages (shell, Ansible, VBA, Python, JavaScript, JSON, API integration or development) is advantageous but not mandatory. Agile Experience : Experience working in an Agile team, participating in agile ceremonies, and a working knowledge of JIRA is beneficial. All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply! If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website.