Solution Architect

Solution Architect Location: Remote with occasional travel to London Day Rate: £750 - £800 Per Day Inside IR35 I am working with a longstanding client who are one of the country's leading and most well-respected IT Solutions and Services providers.

They have a fantastic track record in delivering large scale technology and service solutions for both enterprise level private sector and public sector organisations.

They are now looking for a Storage Solution Architect to join their team on a three - six month contract to support the delivery of a large and business critical strategic programme of work that is focused on the transformation and modernisation of their customer's on-premises environment.

The successful candidate will be creating High Level Designs, roadmaps, reference architecture and providing support to the platform engineering teams.

Skills &amp; Experience Required Architecture Experience Experience in a Solution Architect role delivering projects and technical solutions<br />Experience with enterprise strategies covering capacity planning, performance optimisation, data lifecycle management, tiering and storage governance.<br />Experience operating within mature architecture governance functions.<br />Experience working within global and highly regulated organisations.<br />Financial Services experience is desirable but not essential.

Technical Expertise Technical expertise in Nutanix technologies including AHV, Prism Central, lifecycle management, automation, resilience and disaster recovery.<br />Technical expertise in Dell enterprise storage platforms, including PowerStore, PowerScale, PowerMax, ECS and associated storage networking technologies.<br />Strong knowledge of enterprise compute platforms including x86 server infrastructure, hyperconverged infrastructure, virtualisation, hardware lifecycle management and workload placement strategies.<br />Knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift and container platform architectures, including Kubernetes, container orchestration, platform operations, workload placement, application hosting, infrastructure integration, resilience, observability and hybrid cloud deployment models.<br />Experience with backup, recovery, cyber resilience and business continuity strategies, including immutable storage, replication, ransomware recovery and disaster recovery architectures.

Experience working with Rubrik is an advantage.<br />Strong understanding of infrastructure automation, orchestration and management tooling, including APIs, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management and platform observability.<br />Knowledge of hybrid cloud integration and workload mobility across on-premises and public cloud environments.<br />Experience designing highly available and resilient infrastructure architectures, including fault domain design, operational support models and recovery objectives.<br />Strong understanding of infrastructure security principles including segmentation, encryption, privileged access controls, vulnerability management and secure-by-design architecture practices.

Leadership &amp; Influence Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.<br />Ability to drive consensus across diverse stakeholder groups. Qualifications/Certifications Professional or academic qualifications in a technology-related discipline<br />Enterprise Architecture certification (e.g.

TOGAF®, Open CA, BCS Enterprise &amp; Solution Architecture, or equivalent).<br />Cloud, Security, Architecture, or Microsoft certifications ECS Recruitment Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy