Data Centre Architect
Retail
12 Month contract (Inside IR35)
Berkshire - Hybrid
Working within a major transformation programme focused on shaping the future of enterprise infrastructure, leading large scale data centre modernisation, hybrid cloud integration, and critical business transformation initiatives.
Role Responsibilities
- Define and own the enterprise Data Centre architecture roadmap across compute, storage, network, security, and resilience.
- Design scalable, secure, and highly available on-premises and hybrid cloud environments.
- Architect Windows, Linux, VMware, and virtualisation platforms, ensuring operational excellence and lifecycle management.
- Lead large scale transformation programmes including data centre consolidation, migrations, modernisation, and cloud adoption.
- Design and govern backup, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience strategies, including immutable backup solutions.
- Drive observability, monitoring, and reliability engineering frameworks across enterprise infrastructure.
- Embed security first and Zero Trust principles into all infrastructure designs.
- Optimise infrastructure performance, capacity, licensing, and operational costs.
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders, business leaders, security teams, and technology vendors to deliver strategic outcomes.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and governance across architecture and engineering teams.
Experience Required
- Proven experience designing enterprise-scale, highly available Data Centre architectures.
- Strong expertise across hybrid cloud environments including Azure, AWS, and/or GCP.
- Deep knowledge of VMware, Hyper-V, Kubernetes, Docker, and modern virtualisation technologies.
- Advanced understanding of networking, including LAN/WAN, SDN, firewalls, load balancing, and network segmentation.
- Experience with enterprise storage, backup, replication, and disaster recovery solutions.
- Strong knowledge of security frameworks, Zero Trust architecture, and compliance standards such as ISO27001 and PCI-DSS.
- Hands on experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools including Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, or Python.
- Proven ability to lead complex transformation programmes, migrations, and infrastructure modernisation initiatives.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with experience engaging senior leadership and business stakeholders.
- Excellent communication, documentation, governance, and strategic planning capabilities.
Desirable Experience
- VMware NSX, vSAN, and Software-Defined Data Centre technologies.
- Edge computing and distributed infrastructure architectures.
- Green Data Centre and sustainability initiatives.
- AI/ML, GPU, and high performance computing environments.
- Advanced observability and AIOps platforms such as Dynatrace or AppDynamics.
- FinOps and infrastructure cost optimisation experience.
- DevSecOps integration and secure automation practices.
- Experience delivering large-scale data centre exits, relocations, or cloud migration programmes
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