About the role
Astuco is looking for an experienced Technical Architect who excels at turning complex requirements into secure, scalable, and high-performing technical solutions. You'll work closely with a collaborative team, combining strategic oversight with hands‑on involvement to design architectures that meet both business and technical needs. You'll have the freedom to innovate, build prototypes, develop proof‑of‑concepts, and guide engineers, ensuring that every solution is robust, efficient, and aligned with our clients' objectives. This role requires both a deep technical understanding of infrastructure and systems, and the ability to communicate architectural decisions clearly to stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and oversee the implementation of end‑to‑end technical architectures across cloud, hybrid, and on‑premise environments.
- Collaborate with Application and Service Architects to ensure functional and non‑functional requirements are met.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers and support technicians.
- Define and maintain architectural standards, best practices, and technical roadmaps to guide delivery teams.
- Support the full IT infrastructure lifecycle (planning, design, deployment, monitoring, ongoing operational management).
- Create prototypes, demos, and proof‑of‑concepts to validate technical approaches.
- Participate in estimation, planning, and risk management to deliver projects on time and within quality standards.
- Produce and review high‑and low‑level designs for coherence, technical quality and continuous improvement.
- Identify capability gaps in existing architectures and recommend enhancements aligned with Agile and continuous‑improvement methodologies.
- Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends.
- Create clear, concise technical documentation.
Candidate Requirements
- Proven experience as a Technical Architect / Private Cloud Architect with significant enterprise infrastructure design and delivery experience.
- Strong experience delivering enterprise‑scale solutions across Windows, Linux and cloud.
- Hands‑on VMware expertise (vSphere, vSAN, NSX, Aria Suite); VMware VCP or equivalent preferred.
- Deep Windows platform services knowledge (Active Directory, DNS, Group Policy, PKI, ADFS, WSUS).
- Experience/understanding of containerisation, identity management, lifecycle management.
- Track record designing/implementing scalable, secure, highly available systems (greenfield builds and application upgrades).
- Strong understanding of IaaS, PaaS, DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines and automation/orchestration tooling.
- Experience producing HLD/LLD, solution architecture documentation and operational runbooks.
- Strong networking, load balancing and SDN knowledge.
- Agile/Scrum experience with DevSecOps tools (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Git).
- Excellent problem‑solving, analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Familiarity with Zero Trust and CIS/NCSC hardening.
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Technical Architect employer: Astuco Ltd
Astuco is an exceptional employer, offering Test Engineers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge Defence programmes in a secure and regulated environment. With a strong focus on employee growth, collaborative work culture, and a commitment to innovation, Astuco provides a platform for meaningful contributions while ensuring that team members are supported through continuous learning and development. The unique advantage of working in the UK Defence sector allows employees to engage in impactful projects that enhance national security and interoperability.
