Infrastructure Architect

Infrastructure Architect Rate range: £375pd Inside IR35 Warwick - Hybrid, 1 day WFO per week 3 months (with possibility of extension to 1 year or more) The Infrastructure Architect is responsible for designing and governing enterprise infrastructure across on-prem data centre and AWS cloud, ensuring scalability, resilience, security, and performance optimization across compute, storage, and network layers. The role plays a key part in hybrid transformation, integrating legacy systems with cloud-native architectures.

Key Responsibilities:

Architecture & Design Capacity & Performance Engineering AWS Cloud Architecture DevOps & Automation Security & Compliance Operations & Governance Stakeholder & Delivery Leadership Required Technical Skills On-Prem Infrastructure • Compute: AIX, Linux (RHEL), Windows • Virtualization: VMware (ESXi, vCenter) • Storage: SAN/NAS, backup solutions • Network: o Cisco routing & switching (DC + WAN) o Load balancers (e.g., NetScaler) AWS Cloud • Core Services: o EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM • Networking: o Transit Gateway, Direct Connect • Security: o IAM, WAF, Shield • HA & DR design Hybrid Architecture • Site-to-site VPN / Direct Connect • Multi-DC + Cloud DR strategy • Data migration and modernization DevOps / Automation • IaC: Terraform / CloudFormation • Scripting: Python / Bash • CI/CD: Jenkins / Git pipelines • Containers: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS preferred) Monitoring & Observability • CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus • Enterprise tools (Dynatrace / AppDynamics etc.)