You’ll thrive at the crossroads of strategy and delivery, influencing enterprise-wide decisions while working hands-on with cutting-edge tools and practices. Collaborating with architects, product teams, and senior stakeholders, you’ll translate vision into actionable designs, champion innovation, and drive adoption of best practices across Cloud and DevOps. If you’re ready to make your mark as a trusted leader in shaping next-generation platforms, with the autonomy to innovate and the scope to transform, this is the opportunity to do it.
Accountabilities & Responsibilities:
Responsible for the Architecture of technologies across Infrastructure Squads and their integration within the wider Platform Engineering.
Responsible for the support, design and integration of infrastructure platform technologies as part of the Platform Architecture.
Ensures effective operation and alignment of Enterprise infrastructure services, including compute, storage, networking, hypervisors, operating systems and container platforms.
Technology to enable squads to adopt DevSecOps tooling and practices to optimise on-premises workloads.
Supports the implementation and management of enterprise backup, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and workload availability solutions.
Maintains and develops observability platforms for monitoring, logging and forecasting across infrastructure services.
Supports the integration of on-premises platforms with hybrid cloud environments.
Responsible for designing and implementing compute and data protection platforms, in line with enterprise strategy.
Operates without supervision to manage complexity holistically, ensuring infrastructure platforms are secure by design, resilient, scalable and cost-effective.
Design and implementation of Compute Infrastructure and Data Protection platforms.
Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Qualifications:
Experience in designing, implementing and supporting on-premises data centre architectures.
Proficient in designing, implementing and supporting compute infrastructure (e.g., physical servers, hypervisors), enterprise storage (SAN, NAS, object) and cloud-native services.
Experience in designing, implementing and supporting enterprise backup and data protection platforms.
Experience in designing, implementing and supporting high availability Infrastructure architectures, disaster recovery and enterprise-scale
Understanding of infrastructure management principles, observability, capacity forecasting and resource optimisation practices.
Knowledge of performance monitoring approaches.
Experience working collaboratively with Managed Service Providers and Professional Service Partners.
