Data Center Architect: Hybrid Cloud & Resilience Leader

Queen Square Recruitment Ltd; Reading; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Queen Square Recruitment Ltd is seeking a DC Architect for a long-term contract in Reading. Office-based role requiring end-to-end data centre design leadership across compute, storage and networking to support hybrid cloud modernization.

The candidate will integrate on-prem infrastructure with public clouds, oversee DR/BC, security/compliance, and drive IaC automation. 1-year contract, IR35 Inside.

Qualifications

• A Data Centre Architect designs scalable, high-availability data centre architectures (Tier II-IV) across compute, storage and networking.
• Strong expertise in integrating on-premises infrastructure with public cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP), including hybrid/multi-cloud strategies.
• Deep knowledge of VMware, Hyper-V, or KVM and container platforms like Kubernetes and Docker.
• Expertise in LAN/WAN design, SDN, leaf-spine architectures, segmentation, firewalls, and load balancing.
• Experience with SAN, NAS, object storage, backup/recovery, replication, and data lifecycle management.
• DR strategies, failover models, and RPO/RTO aligned with SLAs.
• Security frameworks, zero-trust, encryption, ISO 27001/PCI-DSS, regulatory requirements.
• IaC tooling (Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python) for provisioning.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end design, planning and governance of data centre infrastructure.
• Bridge infrastructure, cloud and business needs to deliver resilient, scalable environments.
• Lead architecture decisions aligned with hybrid cloud and modernization goals.

Skills

Data Centre Design

Hybrid & Cloud

Virtualization & Containers

Networking Architecture

Storage & Data Mgmt

DR & BC

Security & Compliance

IaC & Automation

Capacity Planning

Vendor & Stakeholder Mgmt

SDDC

Edge Computing

Green Data Centre

AI/ML Infra

Monitoring & Observability

Regulatory Compliance

Migration & Transformation

FinOps

DevSecOps

Job description

Queen Square Recruitment Ltd is seeking a DC Architect for a long-term contract in Reading. Office-based role requiring end-to-end data centre design leadership across compute, storage and networking to support hybrid cloud modernization.

The candidate will integrate on-prem infrastructure with public clouds, oversee DR/BC, security/compliance, and drive IaC automation. 1-year contract, IR35 Inside.