Infrastructure Design Lead

Undisclosed Company; Greater London; On-site; GBP 112,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

Experis (Austria) in London is seeking an Infrastructure Engineering Design Lead for a 6-month contract. The role pays £700 per day inside IR35 and requires DV clearance.

You will lead a team to design end-to-end enterprise infrastructure, define architectures for availability, security, and scalability, and ensure solutions are resilient, observable, and compliant with policy.

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing enterprise infrastructure solutions.
• Ability to translate business requirements into robust infra designs.
• Technical leadership across infra, platform and hosting domains.
• Understanding of security controls (NIST/CIS).

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design of infrastructure solutions.
• Define architectures for availability, scalability and security.
• Drive lifecycle planning and platform evolution.
• Incorporate automation and observability into designs.
• Govern design quality with engineers and third parties.
• Ensure support needs are designed in from the start.

Skills

Enterprise infrastructure design

Technical leadership

Security concepts (NIST/CIS)

Automation concepts

Observability fundamentals

Tools

VMware Cloud Foundation

Windows Server

Linux (RHEL/Rocky/Ubuntu)

NetApp / Dell PowerStore

Veeam / Cohesity / NetBackup

Ansible / PowerShell / Bash

Networking fundamentals

Job description

Infrastructure Engineering Design Lead

Location: London

Duration: 6 months

Rate: £700, Inside IR35

Location: London

Clearance: DV required

If you enjoy turning complex infrastructure challenges into clear, secure and supportable designs, this role is built for you. As an Infrastructure Engineering Design Lead, you'll lead a team of engineers delivering enterprise infrastructure services that keep critical capabilities running reliably-now and into the future.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead the design of infrastructure solutions end-to-end, producing and reviewing both high-level and low-level designs
• Define infrastructure architectures that deliver availability, scalability, resilience, security and long-term supportability
• Drive infrastructure lifecycle planning, including technology refresh, capacity growth and platform evolution
• Make automation, observability and operational efficiency core to how solutions are designed
• Carry out technical assurance and design governance, reviewing designs from engineers, suppliers and third parties
• Ensure operational support needs are built into solutions from the outset
• Partner with solution architects and security architects to create integrated end-to-end outcomes
• Lead technical investigations, proof of concepts and technology evaluations
• Establish infrastructure design principles, standards, blueprints and reference architectures

What you'll bring:

• Significant experience designing enterprise infrastructure solutions, including producing and reviewing high-level and low-level designs
• A track record translating business requirements into infrastructure designs for mission-critical, business-critical services
• Technical leadership that brings clarity and guidance across infrastructure, platform and hosting domains
• Understanding of NIST and CIS security controls
• Demonstrable experience across several areas such as:
• - VMware Cloud Foundation
• - Enterprise server platforms and Windows Server
• - Linux (e.g., RHEL, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu or similar)
• - Enterprise storage (e.g., NetApp or Dell PowerStore)
• - Backup and recovery (e.g., Veeam, Cohesity or NetBackup)
• - Infrastructure monitoring and observability tools
• - Automation using Ansible, PowerShell or Bash
• - Core networking concepts (routing, switching and firewalls)
• Strong system design fundamentals including HA, DR, fault tolerance, scaling, capacity planning, security by design, resilience engineering and service recoverability

Additional information:

• * Lead with behaviours: customer-first thinking, challenging the status quo, delivering with integrity, communicating clearly and collaborating across teams
• * Compliance with all BT policies is mandatory