Infrastructure Architect

Title: Infrastructure Architect

Job Description

Job Description:

• 12-15 years of IT experience, including substantial experience in infrastructure or enterprise architecture roles within complex organisations.

• Demonstrated architecture experience across hybrid cloud, data centre, modern workplace, enterprise network, platform engineering, and infrastructure operations.

• Strong knowledge of Azure, AWS, or GCP; virtualisation and container platforms; enterprise networking and SD-WAN; workplace technologies; observability platforms; automation and infrastructure-as-code.

• Practical understanding of microservices infrastructure patterns, Kubernetes ecosystems, APIs, DevSecOps integration, site reliability engineering concepts, and cloud-native operational models.

• Ability to design for availability, scalability, performance, recoverability, supportability, security, and cost, and to explain architecture trade-offs clearly.

• Working knowledge of IT security architecture and controls, without requiring deep specialist cybersecurity credentials.

• Experience with ITIL-aligned service management, managed services, transition, operational readiness, capacity planning, and continual service improvement.

• Strong stakeholder management, consulting, facilitation, documentation, and presentation skills, with the ability to influence senior technical and business leaders.