Rate range: £375pd Inside IR35
Warwick - Hybrid, 1 day WFO per week
3 months (with possibility of extension to 1 year or more)
The Infrastructure Architect is responsible for designing and governing enterprise infrastructure across on-prem data centre and AWS cloud, ensuring scalability, resilience, security, and performance optimization across compute, storage, and network layers.
The role plays a key part in hybrid transformation, integrating legacy systems with cloud-native architectures.
Key Responsibilities:
Architecture & Design
Capacity & Performance Engineering
AWS Cloud Architecture
DevOps & Automation
Security & Compliance
Operations & Governance
Stakeholder & Delivery Leadership
Required Technical Skills
On-Prem Infrastructure
• Compute: AIX, Linux (RHEL), Windows
• Virtualization: VMware (ESXi, vCenter)
• Storage: SAN/NAS, backup solutions
• Network:
o Cisco routing & switching (DC + WAN)
o Load balancers (e.g., NetScaler)
AWS Cloud
• Core Services:
o EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM
• Networking:
o Transit Gateway, Direct Connect
• Security:
o IAM, WAF, Shield
• HA & DR design
Hybrid Architecture
• Site-to-site VPN / Direct Connect
• Multi-DC + Cloud DR strategy
• Data migration and modernization
DevOps / Automation
• IaC: Terraform / CloudFormation
• Scripting: Python / Bash
• CI/CD: Jenkins / Git pipelines
• Containers: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
Monitoring & Observability
• CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus
• Enterprise tools (Dynatrace / AppDynamics etc.)
Salary description
£350.00 - £375.00 per day