Infrastructure Designer

Posted 11 October 2024
Salary £350 - £480 per day
LocationEngland
Job type Contract
Discipline Cloud & Infrastructure
Reference110331
Contact NameKatie Southward

Job description

Infrastructure Designer

6 months

Remote working

£350 - £475 Inside IR35

My client is looking to build a team of Infrastructure Designers to deliver high-quality infrastructure solutions, ensuring adherence to design standards, best practices, and providing expert consultancy on IT project execution.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Crafting both high-level and detailed designs for our IT infrastructure.
  • Evaluating infrastructure costs and proposing efficient solutions.
  • Developing adoption roadmaps, reusable design patterns, and defining hardware/software environments (SOE).
  • Creating operational models and use cases for new technologies.
  • Governing design quality to ensure reliability and alignment with strategic goals.
  • Offering technical consultancy during project estimations, covering resources, cost, and design impacts.

Skills required:

  • A breadth of design experience in complex environments, ideally in financial services.
  • Expertise in both agile and traditional delivery methods.
  • A solid technical foundation in the following:
    • Operating Systems: Windows Server, Red Hat Linux
    • Networking & Services: TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, Active Directory
    • Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle
    • Collaboration Tools: MS Exchange, Teams, Skype for Business, SharePoint
    • Virtualisation: VMWare ESXi
    • Cloud Platforms: Office 365, Azure, AWS
  • Confidence in justifying financial estimates for infrastructure projects.
  • Experience in supporting architectural governance, bringing strong technical knowledge and sound decision-making.
  • A passion for driving continuous improvement within IT infrastructure.