Enterprise Cloud & Storage Systems Architect

Universal Music Holdings Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group Personal Pension Scheme

Private Medical Insurance

25 paid days of annual leave

Interest Free Season Ticket Loan

Holiday Purchase scheme

Dental and Travel Insurance options

Cycle to Work Scheme

Salary Sacrifice Cars

Subsidised Gym Membership

Employee Discounts

Job summary

Universal Music Group UK is seeking an ambitious systems engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering Team. You will own and deliver compute and storage infrastructure across on‑prem and cloud, define architecture standards, and mentor engineers while partnering with cloud and application teams to ensure secure, scalable designs.

With 7+ years in enterprise infrastructure, you will lead POCs, drive capacity planning, and contribute to DR/BC design.

Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise compute and virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware/Hyper-V).
• Experience with enterprise storage technologies (SAN/NAS).
• Infrastructure architecture in large-scale environments.
• Hybrid design with on-prem and cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Proficient with Linux and Windows Server.
• Capacity planning and lifecycle management.
• Disaster recovery and business continuity design.
• Security best practices and standards.
• Technical documentation and architecture diagrams.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for infrastructure challenges.
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise compute/storage across on-prem and cloud.
• Define compute/storage architecture, standards, and long-term strategy.
• Develop scalable, secure infrastructure designs aligned with needs.
• Establish and maintain enterprise standards and reference architectures.
• Serve as a technical liaison between stakeholders, infra, cloud, and IT.
• Review solutions for quality, reliability, security, and compliance with standards.
• Ensure alignment between expectations and final designs.
• Partner with cloud team for interoperability and app compatibility.
• Lead POCs and evaluations of new compute/storage technologies.
• Participate in capacity planning, lifecycle management, and roadmap development.
• Support disaster recovery and business continuity design and validation.
• Provide Tier-4 escalation for complex compute/storage issues.
• Communicate status, risks, dependencies to leadership.
• Develop technical training and mentorship for engineering teams.
• Role focuses on architecture/design with limited ops.

Skills

Enterprise compute & virtualization

Enterprise storage

Infrastructure architecture

Hybrid infrastructure design

Linux & Windows Server

Capacity planning

Disaster recovery

Security best practices

Technical documentation

Translate requirements into scalable方案

Analytical problem-solving

Communication skills

Cross-team collaboration

Design discussion leadership

Organizational skills

Fluent in English

Job description

Universal Music Group UK is seeking an ambitious systems engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering Team. You will own and deliver compute and storage infrastructure across on‑prem and cloud, define architecture standards, and mentor engineers while partnering with cloud and application teams to ensure secure, scalable designs.

With 7+ years in enterprise infrastructure, you will lead POCs, drive capacity planning, and contribute to DR/BC design.