Infrastructure Architecture Lead Hybrid Cloud Consolidation

Mizuho; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Non-contributory pension

27 days annual leave

Hybrid working

Virtual GP

Wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Mizuho is seeking a DevSecOps Architect to own target-state infrastructure across end-user compute, data centres and cloud, driving consolidation into a single cost-managed platform.

You will lead data centre rationalisation, define cloud landing zones, and partner with security and platform teams to sequence dependencies while delivering measurable reductions in estate size and cost.

Qualifications

• Substantial infrastructure architecture experience in a regulated enterprise with end-to-end consolidation delivered.
• Ownership of a VDI or end-user compute estate at enterprise scale, including migration or consolidation.
• Hands-on architectural experience across major public clouds with landing zone design and migration patterns.

Responsibilities

• Define target-state infrastructure architecture for VDI, data centres and cloud with a clear placement policy.
• Lead data centre rationalisation including workload discovery, migration planning and lease alignment.
• Consolidate VDI/end-user compute estate and define patterns for a single strategic platform.
• Design cloud landing zones, network topology, identity integration and hybrid connectivity for scaled migration.
• Establish infrastructure standards and baselines for IaC, patching and resilience.
• Own disaster recovery, RTO/RPO and testing aligned to business requirements.
• Build and maintain the infrastructure cost model and drive unit economics.
• Collaborate with network, security, EUC and platform teams to sequence dependencies.

Skills

Infrastructure architecture

VDI/EUC experience

Public cloud experience

FinOps / cost modelling

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

IaC pipelines

Cloud migration tools

Job description

Mizuho is seeking a DevSecOps Architect to own target-state infrastructure across end-user compute, data centres and cloud, driving consolidation into a single cost-managed platform.

You will lead data centre rationalisation, define cloud landing zones, and partner with security and platform teams to sequence dependencies while delivering measurable reductions in estate size and cost.