Infrastructure Engineering Design Lead - Active DV Mandatory

Randstad Technologies; City Of London; In loco; GBP 90.000 - 110.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Randstad Technologies seeks an experienced Infrastructure Design Lead to oversee a team of engineers in architecting and deploying robust enterprise environments in London. You will act as the technical authority across compute, storage, networking, and virtualization, ensuring security-focused, scalable designs.

Role involves translating business objectives into resilient IT solutions, balancing design governance with hands-on leadership, and delivering enterprise-grade infrastructure across

Competenze

• Experience as Design Authority/Technical Lead in secure, mission-critical environments.
• Deep knowledge of HA, DR, capacity planning, elasticity, and resilience engineering.
• Knowledge of NIST and CIS security controls.
• Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation and virtualization.
• Experience with Dell PowerStore or NetApp storage.
• Experience with Veeam/Cohesity/Veritas NetBackup backups.
• Experience with L2/L3 networking, firewalls, and boundary protections.
• Automation with Ansible/PowerShell/Bash.

Mansioni

• Lead end-to-end design governance for high-stakes services.
• Translate business requirements into infrastructure architecture.
• Embed security-by-design aligned to NIST/CIS.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams through complex delivery cycles.
• Develop resilience and DR blueprints for hybrid/on-prem environments.

Conoscenze

Design Authority

Technical Lead

Security standards

NIST/CIS compliance

High Availability design

Disaster Recovery

Strumenti

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

PowerShell

Ansible

Bash

Veeam

Cohesity

Veritas NetBackup

Dell PowerStore

NetApp

Windows Server

Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu)

Descrizione del lavoro

Role Overview: Infrastructure Design Lead

• Contract Duration: 6 Months (Inside IR35)
• Location: London, UK (100% On-site / 5 Days per Week)
• Security Clearance: Active DV (Developed Vetting) Clearance is mandatory

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Design Lead to direct a team of infrastructure engineers in architecting, deploying, and optimizing robust enterprise-grade environments. In this role, you will act as the technical authority across compute, storage, networking, automation, and virtualization platforms.

You will be responsible for translating high-level business objectives into resilient, secure, and scalable technical solutions, ensuring all architectural blueprints comply with rigorous government security frameworks and long‑term IT roadmaps. This is a hands‑on technical leadership position balancing end‑to‑end design governance, operational delivery, and team mentorship.

Key Responsibilities

• Architectural Governance & Technical Authority: Lead the end‑to‑end authoring, validation, and review of robust High‑Level Designs (HLDs) and Low‑Level Designs (LLDs) for high‑stakes, mission‑critical services.
• Requirements Translation: Bridge the gap between non‑technical stakeholders and engineering teams by converting operational and business needs into actionable infrastructure architecture.
• Security & Compliance Standards: Embed security‑by‑design principles into all architectural stages, ensuring strict adherence to NIST, CIS benchmarks, and relevant national security baselines.
• Hands‑on Team Leadership: Steer multidisciplinary engineering squads through complex delivery cycles, operational troubleshooting, and infrastructure modernization projects.
• Enterprise Resilience Strategy: Formulate blueprints that guarantee high availability, rapid service recoverability, and comprehensive disaster recovery capabilities across hybrid and on‑premises footprints.

Candidate Profile & Technical Capabilities

1. Design & Core Architecture Principles

• Proven background functioning as a Design Authority / Technical Lead in secure, mission‑critical enterprise environments.
• Deep mastery of resilient design concepts: Fault Tolerance, High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), Capacity Planning, Elastic Scaling (horizontal/vertical), and Resilience Engineering.
• Practical knowledge of NIST and CIS security control implementations.

1. Core Infrastructure & Virtualization

• Advanced design and deployment expertise with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and modern enterprise virtualization suites.
• Strong background across bare‑metal server hardware and enterprise OS platforms (Windows Server and Linux distributions such as RHEL, Rocky Linux, or Ubuntu).

1. Storage, Protection & Networking

• Design proficiency with enterprise SAN/NAS storage arrays (e.g., Dell PowerStore, NetApp).
• Architecting modern backup, deduplication, and recovery solutions (e.g., Veeam, Cohesity, or Veritas NetBackup).
• Solid grasp of core data‑centre networking, including Layer 2/3 routing, switching topologies, and firewall boundary protections.

1. Automation & Observability

• Practical automation and configuration management skills using Ansible, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Experience implementing comprehensive infrastructure monitoring, telemetry, and observability frameworks.

Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.