Senior Infrastructure Architect

Senior Infrastructure Solution Architect – Hybrid Infrastructure

We are recruiting a Senior Solution Architect to support a major enterprise infrastructure programme focused on establishing a standardised edge computing platform across multiple locations.

This role will take architectural ownership of a distributed hosting environment supporting virtual machines, Kubernetes/container workloads, manufacturing applications, data platforms and future AI capabilities.

The primary objective is to establish scalable, reusable infrastructure architectures that can be deployed consistently across multiple sites.

What You'll Be Doing

• Defining the enterprise edge reference architecture and platform roadmap.
• Creating standardised infrastructure patterns for different factory requirements.
• Evaluating technologies including Azure Local, Dell NativeEdge, VMware and Nutanix.
• Designing resilient hosting platforms across compute, storage, virtualisation, containers and backup/DR.
• Defining workload placement strategies across edge, core and cloud.
• Providing architecture governance and technical assurance.
• Working with infrastructure, network, security and operations teams to support platform delivery.

What We're Looking For

You'll be an experienced Infrastructure or Solution Architect with strong knowledge of:

• Enterprise hybrid infrastructure and distributed platforms.
• Virtualisation, HCI and enterprise storage.
• Kubernetes and container hosting.
• High availability, resilience, backup and disaster recovery.
• Infrastructure automation and operational lifecycle management.
• Reference architecture development, HLDs and design authority.

We're particularly interested in architects who have designed enterprise infrastructure services that can be standardised and repeatedly deployed across multiple locations.

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