Infrastructure Architect

Fujitsu; Bracknell; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology company is seeking an Infrastructure Architect to provide architectural leadership for end-to-end solutions. The role requires solid troubleshooting skills, the ability to engage with customers, and expertise in various technologies, including networking and storage systems. Candidates must be prepared to work at customer sites and have a strong focus on security clearance. This position includes competitive benefits like annual leave and pension matching.

Benefits

26 Days annual leave plus public holidays

Pension – Double matching contributions of up to 10%

Life assurance

Companywide incentive plans

Employee discounts

Employee assistance programme/virtual GP

Qualifications

• Strong architectural leadership for end-to-end solutions.
• Ability to manage a varied workload and deliver on multiple levels.
• Required security clearance to a high level.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural leadership for project solutions.
• Conduct deep-dive investigations in live service environments.
• Lead solution architecture across implementation lifecycle.

Skills

End to end solution architecture

Customer-facing communication

Wintel generalist knowledge

Linux systems understanding

Virtualisation platforms familiarity

NetApp storage experience

Networking and firewalls knowledge

Deep-dive investigation abilities

Job description

Job Title:Infrastructure Architect

Location: Bracknell – minimum 2 days a week on site. May also attend Stevenage office and 2 days a week at our Customer Site in Bristol.

Your role

Are you someone who likes a challenge in your working environment as well as the role you are carrying out? Can you manage a varied workload and successfully deliver on all levels of management? Are you a confident people-person and technical architect who can represent Fujitsu at our Customer’s site, face-to-face with our customer’s stakeholders, and co-develop solutions, aligned to the overall solution direction? This role requires an initial 2 days per week embedded with our customer, having a desk at our customer’s site to provide customer access to Fujitsu, and ensuring greater depth understanding of our customer’s challenges and requirements.

As an infrastructure architect you will be expected to provide architectural leadership for end-to-end solutions as part of the project, ensuring seamless integration or project activities with existing running services. The architect will be instrumental in design development, troubleshooting, and validating change impacts within live service environments. You will lead solution architecture across full implementation lifecycle as well as validate and assess changes against in-service systems to prevent unauthorised implementations. You will be expected to conduct deep-dive investigations and own remediations – in a live and in-service environment.

Your experience

• End to end solution architecture (troubleshooting and developing designs whilst whole solution impacting within the design/implementation).
• Customer-facing people-person with confidence to architect in front of our customer.
• Wintel generalist with application architecture knowledge.
• Good understanding of Linux systems (automation an advantage).
• Familiarity with virtualisation platforms (VMware preferred, others acceptable).
• NetApp storage experience: SAN/NAS, snapshots, replication.
• Solid understanding of networking and firewalls.
• Ability to deep-dive on investigations to steer remediations.

This role requires security clearance to a high level. Please visit National security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Your benefits:

26 Days annual leave plus public holidays (3 flexible)

Pension – Double matching contributions of up to 10%

Life assurance

Companywide incentive plans

Your choices (Flexible benefits such as increased holidays/ travel/ dental critical illness and more)

Perks at work – employee discounts

Employee assistance programme/ virtual GP

Recruitment process

The recruitment process consists of one stage of interviews.

Fujitsu has been recognized as a Disability Confident Leader by the Department of Work and Pensions. This is in recognition of our commitment to recruiting, retaining, and employing people with disabilities. As a Disability Confident Leader, we offer a guaranteed interview to all candidates with disabilities who meet the essential criteria for a role and are experienced at making reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process. Please let me know if you would like further information.

Achieve together

We are Fujitsu. A Japanese company with a strong set of values and a history of respecting fairness and equality, whilst promoting diversity and inclusion. We constantly push ourselves to do more and strive to bring together a diverse mix of perspectives and talents in an inclusive environment, where we encourage our people to bring their full self to work. We call this Be Completely You.

We are inclusive. As a responsible business, it is important to us that we reflect the diversity of our society and customers. Not only are we a Disability Confident company, a Times Top 50 employer for Women and a signatory for the Race at Work Charter, we are also committed to the United Nations standards for LGBT+.

We want you to thrive. If working for a progressive organization, with a continuing commitment to diversity and inclusion is important, you should apply.

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