Infrastructure Solution Architect - Distributed Edge Platforms

Access Computer Consulting; West Kirby; Hybrid; GBP 97,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

Access Computer Consulting is seeking a senior Infrastructure Solution Architect to design and standardise distributed edge hosting platforms for a global manufacturing setting. You will work on repeatable edge hosting solutions across multiple sites, covering VMs, containers and data/AI workloads.

Key emphasis on enterprise architecture, hyperconverged infrastructure, and cross-team collaboration with infra, networking, security and ops teams. Manufacturing IT/OT experience is advantageous.

Qualifications

• Senior infrastructure architect with experience in distributed and hybrid environments.
• Experience designing repeatable edge hosting solutions across global manufacturing environments.
• Proficient with VMware, Nutanix, and Azure Local or similar platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and container infrastructure.
• Experience with compute, storage, backup, DR, and high availability.

Responsibilities

• Design and standardise distributed hosting platforms across a global manufacturing environment.
• Produce high-level designs, architecture decisions and technical design documentation.
• Collaborate across infrastructure, networking, security and operations teams.
• Plan workload placement across edge, data centre and cloud environments.
• Define reusable reference architectures and technical standards.

Skills

Enterprise infrastructure architecture

Virtualisation

HCI

VMware

Nutanix

Azure Local

Kubernetes

Containers

Compute

Storage

Disaster recovery

High availability

Reference architectures

Workload placement

HLDs & design docs

Cross-domain collaboration

Manufacturing IT/OT

Tools

VMware

Nutanix

Azure Local

Kubernetes

Containers

Job description

Infrastructure Solution Architect - Distributed Edge Platforms

£525-£575/day | Inside IR35 | 6 months | UK Hybrid

We are recruiting for a senior Infrastructure Solution Architect to design and standardise distributed hosting platforms across a global manufacturing environment.

The programme involves establishing repeatable Edge Hosting solutions supporting virtual machines, containers, legacy applications and data/AI workloads across multiple factory locations.

Key experience:

• Enterprise infrastructure architecture across distributed and hybrid environments
• Virtualisation and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)
• VMware, Nutanix, Azure Local or similar platforms
• Kubernetes, containers and associated infrastructure
• Compute, storage, backup, disaster recovery and high availability
• Defining reusable reference architectures and technical standards
• Workload placement across Edge, data centre and cloud environments
• Producing HLDs, architecture decisions and technical design documentation
• Working across infrastructure, networking, security and operational teams
• Manufacturing IT/OT experience, Dell NativeEdge or GPU-enabled Edge platforms would be advantageous.

Contract: 6 months, £525-£575/day, Inside IR35 via umbrella.

Location: UK hybrid, with site engagement as required.