Solution Designer £90,000 GBP Hybrid WORKING Location: Manchester, North West - United Kingdom Type: Permanent To design, develop, and implement solutions to complex business problems, collaborating with stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements, and design and implement solutions that meet those needs and create solutions that balance technology risks against business delivery, driving consistency. Accountabilities Design and development of solutions as products that can evolve, meeting business requirements that align with modern software engineering practices and automated delivery tooling. This includes identification and implementation of the technologies and platforms. Targeted design activities that apply an appropriate workload placement strategy and maximise the benefit of cloud capabilities such as elasticity, serverless, containerisation etc. Best practice designs incorporating security principles (such as defence in depth and reduction of blast radius) that meet the Bank's resiliency expectations. Solutions that appropriately balance risks and controls to deliver the agreed business and technology value. Adoption of standardised solutions where they fit. If no standard solutions fit, feed into their ongoing evolution where appropriate. Fault finding and performance issues support to operational support teams, leveraging available tooling. Solution design impact assessment in terms of risk, capacity and cost impact, inc. estimation of project change and ongoing run costs. Development of the requisite architecture inputs required to comply with the banks governance processes, including design artefacts required for architecture, privacy, security and records management governance processes. Join us a Solution Designer to support the ongoing efforts to virtualise the banks infrastructure in a controlled, quality orientated and repeatable manner. The Solution Designer sits within The Service Delivery Team, based in the Radbroke, UK, and Whippany. They are accountable for managing infrastructure demand and optimisation on an ongoing basis, in addition to providing specialised support in various GTIS technologies split across both private and public cloud. You will be supporting the migration of applications to next generation virtualised platforms. You will work with stakeholders and application teams to understand functional/ non-functional requirements, develop repeatable patterns and innovative approaches to migrations and feedback into engineering teams with requests for enhancement to ensure the platforms are able to support the widest number of use cases. To be successful as a Solution Designer, you should have experience with: Experienced in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) products; SDDC, VMware VCenter and ESX 6.x, 7.x, VRA, VRO, vROPs and other. Capacity to troubleshoot technical issues. Strong documentation skills using confluence and other information repositories. Some other highly valued skills may include Some other highly valued skills may include: Good understanding of network technologies, including VMware NSX-V & NSX-T Certification of VMware 6.5 Data Center Virtualization (VCP6.5-DCV) or equivalent preferred Certification of VMware- Network Virtualization (VCP6-NV) a big plus Containerisation (OpenShift, Kubevirt, Harvester) Reference: AMC/RHU/SD ryhu