Job title: Infrastructure Architect Location: Basingstoke Salary: £75 - £80k plus 10% bonus, 10% DV allowance and £6k car allowance Total package: up to £102K Candidates must be willing and eligible to go through SC and DV security clearance for this role Your role We are looking for a infrastructure architect for a client of mine who are a leading IT systems integrator operating within the UK defence sector. The successful candidate will work as part of a multi skilled agile team, where teamwork is paramount. The role will be challenging and varied, where cross training is expected, and challenges shared. Reporting into the CTO Lead Architect for the customer, the post holder will own all aspects of the delivery of technical proposals, ensuring they are aligned to the client’s vision. The role will require the ability to interact and work well with multiple areas of Fujitsu as well as senior customer stakeholders, ensuring collaboration and closer working across the delivery lifecycle and will include the managing of 3rd parties and requests for change ensuring there is no impact upon the overall architectural solution. Your experience Client facing skills at a senior level with the ability to communicate ideas and thoughts to senior executives Extensive knowledge of the design and implementation of secure, highly resilient, large-scale infrastructures Experience of working directly with customers to define and elaborate infrastructure requirements. Experience of deploying production implementations with successful project completion and service transition Experience of designing Infrastructure solutions to be compliant with security standards Experience in the development and delivery of software using Agile Methodologies knowledge of Microsoft Windows systems administration within an enterprise environment - delivery of configuration change via GPO, Registry, Filesystem, Powershell cmdlets or, WMI, as well as Windows Update and patching mechanisms, including Windows Installer.