Infrastructure Architect - Data Centre
*applicants must hold an active SC clearance*
Start: ASAP
Location: onsite in central London 2-3 days per week
We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect to lead the technical design and delivery of a major on-premise data centre migration for a UK government client. This is a contract role requiring deep infrastructure expertise and strong stakeholder engagement, with a focus on robust, secure, and disruption-free migration.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end infrastructure architecture for the target data centre
- Conduct assessments of existing environments, dependencies, and workloads
- Design migration strategies covering tooling, sequencing, rollback, and DR
- Produce HLDs/LLDs across compute, storage, networking, and security domains
- Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and compliance standards
- Collaborate with project managers, technical teams, and vendors
- Maintain comprehensive design documentation and architectural records
- Architect solutions for high availability, resilience, and scalability
- Support engineering teams during implementation and act as a technical escalation point
Essential Skills:
- Proven experience in data centre migrations as an Infrastructure Architect or Senior Engineer
- Deep understanding of on-premise infrastructure, including:
- Compute (Windows/Linux, VMwa...