Lead Hybrid Cloud Data Centre Architect

NXA Talent Limited; Reading; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

NXA Talent Limited is seeking an senior Data Centre Architect to shape a major transformation programme focused on enterprise infrastructure. You will define roadmaps for compute, storage, network, and security, and design scalable on-premises and hybrid cloud environments.

You will lead migrations, modernisation, and cloud adoption, embedding Zero Trust and security-first principles while driving cost optimisation and resilience across data centres.

Qualifications

• Architect enterprise-scale data centre and hybrid cloud platforms across compute, storage, network, security and resilience.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the enterprise Data Centre architecture roadmap across compute, storage, network, security, and resilience.
• Design scalable, secure, and highly available on-premises and hybrid cloud environments.
• Architect Windows, Linux, VMware, and virtualisation platforms, ensuring operational excellence and lifecycle management.
• Lead large scale transformation programmes including data centre consolidation, migrations, modernisation, and cloud adoption.
• Design and govern backup, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience strategies, including immutable backup solutions.
• Drive observability, monitoring, and reliability engineering frameworks across enterprise infrastructure.
• Embed security first and Zero Trust principles into all infrastructure designs.
• Optimise infrastructure performance, capacity, licensing, and operational costs.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders, business leaders, security teams, and technology vendors to deliver strategic outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and governance across architecture and engineering teams.

Skills

Hybrid cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP)

VMware/Hyper-V

Kubernetes/Docker

Networking fundamentals

Security & Zero Trust

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansn

PowerShell/Python

DR/BCP & Disaster Recovery

Observability/AIOps

FinOps & cost optimisation

Stakeholder management

Edge computing

Sustainability initiatives

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

PowerShell

Python

Dynatrace

AppDynamics

VMware NSX

vSAN

Job description

NXA Talent Limited is seeking an senior Data Centre Architect to shape a major transformation programme focused on enterprise infrastructure. You will define roadmaps for compute, storage, network, and security, and design scalable on-premises and hybrid cloud environments.

You will lead migrations, modernisation, and cloud adoption, embedding Zero Trust and security-first principles while driving cost optimisation and resilience across data centres.