Infrastructure Architect in City of Westminster

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements

• We need experience designing and governing enterprise infrastructure across on-prem data centres and AWS cloud.
• We need strong knowledge of on-prem infrastructure, including AIX, Linux (RHEL), Windows, VMware (ESXi, vCenter), SAN/NAS, backup solutions, Cisco routing and switching, and load balancers such as NetScaler.
• We need experience with AWS core services including EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, and IAM.
• We need experience with AWS networking and security, including Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, IAM, WAF, and Shield.
• We need experience designing high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
• We need experience with hybrid architecture, including site-to-site VPN, Direct Connect, multi-data-centre and cloud DR strategy, data migration, and modernization.
• We need DevOps and automation experience, including Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or CloudFormation, scripting with Python or Bash, CI/CD with Jenkins or Git pipelines, and containers such as Docker and Kubernetes, with EKS preferred.
• We need monitoring and observability experience with CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, and enterprise tools such as Dynatrace or AppDynamics.
• We need experience in security, compliance, operations, governance, stakeholder engagement, and delivery leadership.

Responsibilities

• We will design and govern enterprise infrastructure across on-prem data centres and AWS cloud.
• We will ensure scalability, resilience, security, and performance optimisation across compute, storage, and network layers.
• We will support hybrid transformation by integrating legacy systems with cloud‑native architectures.
• We will lead architecture and design activities.
• We will carry out capacity and performance engineering.
• We will design and support AWS cloud architecture.
• We will drive DevOps and automation initiatives.
• We will oversee security and compliance considerations.
• We will manage operations and governance.
• We will provide stakeholder and delivery leadership.

Technologies

• AWS
• Architect
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• CloudWatch
• Cisco
• DevOps
• Docker
• Dynatrace
• EC2
• Git
• Grafana
• IAM
• Support
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Network
• Prometheus
• Python
• RHEL
• Security
• Terraform
• VPN
• VMware
• WAF
• Windows

More

We are hiring an Infrastructure Architect for a hybrid role based in Warwick, with one day working from the office each week. This is a 3‑month contract with the possibility of extension to 1 year or more, offered at a rate of £375 per day inside IR35. The role sits at the centre of our hybrid transformation programme, where we are integrating legacy systems with cloud‑native architectures across our enterprise infrastructure.

last updated 28 week of 2026