Infrastructure Architect

Infrastructure Architect

Basingstoke. Occasional travel may be required. No remote working possible.

Our purpose is to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation. As an Infrastructure Architect you will contribute to this by utilising energy efficient hardware and designing solutions that reduce energy use such as the use of virtualisation and efficient data management techniques and by implementing green software engineering principles.

You will be responsible for the creation of design artefacts that enable the provision of Microsoft Windows Server solutions, both physical and virtual, using industry standard tooling and methodologies which vary in size and complexity. You will work closely with Solution Owners and Project Managers to ensure that solutions are defect free, in-line with approved designs and meet the customer requirements.

Your transferable skills and experience:

• Experience in producing high quality solutions and documentation using a structured approach for components with varying degrees of complexity.
• Demonstrable experience in the creation, or modification, of a variety of design artefacts (Architecture Overview Documents, High-Level Designs and Low-Level Designs) for Microsoft Windows Server solutions, both physical and virtual.
• Experience of steering solutions through several quality gates.
• The ability to produce, support and maintain work packages throughout the Customer Solution Lifecycle.
• Experience in requirements management and associated tooling.
• Experience of working on secure infrastructure solutions Including demonstrable experience of the design and implementation of security policies following the appropriate guidelines, experience in Secure by Design (SbD) advantageous.
• Experience creating and executing PowerShell scripts and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Demonstrable experience of the migration from ESXi to Hyper-V is advantageous.
• Experience of Terraform and/or Ansible and advanced knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy including Certification Authority role service within an enterprise environment along with experience in designing and deploying HyperV, SCCM, and MECM solutions.

Please note: It’s still worth applying even if you do not meet all the requirements above. We are passionate about investing in you and your career and if you have the transferable skills/ background as an Infrastructure/Integration Engineer or 4th Line Support Professional this could be the next opportunity for you.

Recruitment process

The recruitment process consists of a one stage interview and will comprise a mixture of technical competency questions, scenario-based questions and behavioural competency-based questions.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Email if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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We are recognised as a responsible and inclusive employer: Not only are we a certified Disability Confident Leader, a Times Top 50 employer for Gender Equality, a Top 75 employer for Social Mobility, accredited with the Living Wage Foundation and a signatory for the Race at Work Charter, but we are also committed to the United Nations standards for LGBTI+ and a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.

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