Infrastructure Engineering Design Lead - Active DV Mandatory

Role Overview: Infrastructure Design Lead

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• Contract Duration: 6 Months (Inside IR35)
• Location: London, UK (100% On-site / 5 Days per Week)
• Security Clearance: Active DV (Developed Vetting) Clearance is mandatory

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Design Lead to direct a team of infrastructure engineers in architecting, deploying, and optimizing robust enterprise-grade environments. In this role, you will act as the technical authority across compute, storage, networking, automation, and virtualization platforms.

You will be responsible for translating high-level business objectives into resilient, secure, and scalable technical solutions, ensuring all architectural blueprints comply with rigorous government security frameworks and long-term IT roadmaps. This is a hands-on technical leadership position balancing end-to-end design governance, operational delivery, and team mentorship.

Key Responsibilities

• Architectural Governance & Technical Authority: Lead the end-to-end authoring, validation, and review of robust High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs) for high-stakes, mission-critical services.
• Requirements Translation: Bridge the gap between non-technical stakeholders and engineering teams by converting operational and business needs into actionable infrastructure architecture.
• Security & Compliance Standards: Embed security-by-design principles into all architectural stages, ensuring strict adherence to NIST, CIS benchmarks, and relevant national security baselines.
• Hands-on Team Leadership: Steer multidisciplinary engineering squads through complex delivery cycles, operational troubleshooting, and infrastructure modernization projects.
• Enterprise Resilience Strategy: Formulate blueprints that guarantee high availability, rapid service recoverability, and comprehensive disaster recovery capabilities across hybrid and on-premises footprints.

Candidate Profile & Technical Capabilities

• Design & Core Architecture Principles
• Proven background functioning as a Design Authority / Technical Lead in secure, mission-critical enterprise environments.
• Deep mastery of resilient design concepts: Fault Tolerance, High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), Capacity Planning, Elastic Scaling (horizontal/vertical), and Resilience Engineering. xgikmsk
• Practical knowledge of NIST and CIS security control implementations.
• Core Infrastructure & Virtualization
• Advan...