Infrastructure Architect

Adroit People; Guildford; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions company is seeking an experienced infrastructure specialist to design and deliver enterprise solutions across cloud and on-premises environments. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in cloud technologies such as AWS or Azure, strong networking skills, and expertise in infrastructure automation. Excellent communication skills are essential for presenting technical concepts to diverse stakeholders. This position offers an opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing enterprise infrastructure solutions.
• Hands-on experience with a public cloud provider.
• Solid knowledge of networking and virtualization technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver enterprise infrastructure solutions.
• Implement infrastructure automation and IaC.
• Present architectures to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Cloud-native architectures

Networking

Containers and orchestration

Infrastructure automation

Monitoring and observability

Excellent communication

Tools

AWS

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise infrastructure solutions across cloud and on-premises environments.

• Hands-on experience with at least one public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and strong understanding of cloud-native services and architectures.
• Solid background in networking (routing, switching, LB, VPN, DNS), virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V), and storage technologies.
• Experience with containers and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes) and related tooling.
• Strong knowledge of security controls for infrastructure: identity & access management, network segmentation, encryption, and vulnerability management.
• Experience implementing infrastructure automation and IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, etc.).
• Familiar with monitoring, observability and logging solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK / EFK, Datadog, etc.).
• Experience in high-availability, DR planning, backup technologies, and capacity planning.
• Excellent communication skills and experience presenting architecture and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.