My client is seeking to recruit an Infrastructure Solution Architect on an initial 6 month contract to be based in Manchester (2x days per week onsite).
You will be be part of a team that designs and delivers Infrastructure solutions to enable product delivery and transformation. You will work alongside Engineering Leads to understand application requirements in order to draw out infrastructure designs; ensuring compliance with the client's patterns, standards and strategy. Once a design is created and internal teams and 3rd party suppliers mobilised we coordinate technical delivery to ensure your design is delivered to plan.
Role Info:
* Align with an IT team responsible for a banking product or service, where we work proactively to influence their strategy, whilst translating their business requirements and specifications into infrastructure designs; exploring delivery options, documenting decisions and iterating ideas as you go
* Providing consultancy and cost estimates, to ensure your business can budget accordingly and make informed strategic decisions
* Using experience of leading Suppliers, SMEs and Supply Lines to write work packages that are clear, understood and delivered on time
Skills Required:
* Experienced in the design/architecture of infrastructure solutions in a large-scale enterprise environment, e.g. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Middleware, Storage, Network and Databases.
* Skilled at producing quality concise design documentation, with an emphasis on decisions and diagrams necessary to mobilise delivery
* Hands-On experience of end-to-end project delivery, working with Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall delivery models including modern software development and deployment practices
* Understanding of building applications through containerised microservices-based architectures, with a working understanding of cloud methodologies
* Experienced in migrating legacy applications to cloud based solutions (both to in house private cloud and external e.g. GCP or Azure)
* Technologies we would be expecting experience in (not necessarily all but an awareness) - Windows Server, Linux, UNIX, SQL, oracle, Websphere, SAN infrastructure, VmWare, Citrix, IBM P Series, Oracle Hardware, HP and Lenovo plus a good experience of networking technology such as F5
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