Infrastructure Architect - Hybrid Cloud & Storage

Universal Music Holdings Ltd; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Private medical insurance

25 days leave

Season ticket loan

Holiday purchase scheme

Dental & travel insurance

Cycle to work

Salary sacrifice cars

Gym membership

Employee discounts

Job summary

Universal Music Group UK is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to join the Infrastructure Engineering Team. You will own and deliver compute/storage infrastructure projects, spanning on-prem and cloud environments, with emphasis on architecture, design, and strategic technical leadership.

The role focuses on scalable, secure designs, collaborating with IT, cloud, and security teams, and mentoring engineers while providing guidance and escalation support as needed.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in systems or infrastructure engineering focused on compute/storage.
• Designing scalable, production-grade infrastructure.
• Hybrid environments with on-prem and cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Cross-functional collaboration to translate requirements into designs.
• Enterprise standards, reference designs, and documentation development.
• Leading proofs-of-concept and evaluating new technologies.
• Fluent English in written and spoken form.

Responsibilities

• Lead design/implementation of compute and storage across on-prem and cloud.
• Define compute/storage architectures, standards, and long-term strategy.
• Develop scalable, secure infrastructure designs aligned with needs.
• Maintain enterprise standards, references, and technical docs.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, infra teams, cloud, and IT.
• Review solutions for quality, reliability, security, and compliance.
• Ensure alignment between customer needs and final designs.
• Partner with cloud team for interoperability and app compatibility.
• Lead PoCs and evaluations of new compute/storage tech.
• Contribute to capacity planning and infrastructure roadmap.
• Support disaster recovery and business continuity testing.
• Provide Tier-4 escalation and root-cause analysis.
• Communicate status, risks, and dependencies clearly.
• Deliver technical training and mentorship to engineers.
• Role focused on architecture/design with limited operations.

Skills

VMware

Hyper-V

Storage techs

Infra architecture

Linux

Windows Server

Cloud hybrid

Documentation

English fluency

Stakeholder comms

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Universal Music Group UK is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to join the Infrastructure Engineering Team. You will own and deliver compute/storage infrastructure projects, spanning on-prem and cloud environments, with emphasis on architecture, design, and strategic technical leadership.

The role focuses on scalable, secure designs, collaborating with IT, cloud, and security teams, and mentoring engineers while providing guidance and escalation support as needed.