Mission-Critical Infrastructure Architect | Hybrid Cloud

DXC Technology Company; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Enhanced pension

Private medical insurance

Flexible working

Training support

Job summary

DXC Technology is seeking an Infrastructure / Platform Architect to lead enterprise infrastructure architecture across compute, storage, networking and virtualization for on‑prem and cloud environments. The role focuses on cloud/hybrid strategies, security alignment and major migration programmes.

You will provide technical leadership, mentor engineering teams and act as a trusted advisor to executives, translating complex technical concepts into business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in IT infrastructure, including enterprise‑scale architecture and design leadership.
• Proven expertise in cloud and hybrid infrastructure environments (AWS, Azure or equivalent).
• Strong background in virtualization, storage, networking and high‑availability platform design.
• Experience delivering infrastructure transformation, modernisation and migration programmes.
• Knowledge of infrastructure architecture frameworks, governance and best practices.
• Familiarity with VMware, containerisation, Kubernetes and modern infrastructure technologies.
• Understanding of disaster recovery, business continuity and resilient infrastructure design.
• Experience working within secure, regulated or defence‑related environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and technical leadership skills.
• Experience working with TOGAF, ArchiMate and Agile delivery methodologies (SAFe preferred).

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver enterprise infrastructure architecture across compute, storage, networking and virtualisation platforms.
• Develop cloud and hybrid infrastructure strategies aligned to defence security requirements.
• Lead infrastructure modernisation, cloud adoption, system migrations and technology refresh programmes.
• Design resilient, secure and scalable platforms supporting mission‑critical services.
• Establish infrastructure standards, design patterns and governance frameworks.
• Drive technical decision‑making through architecture reviews and stakeholder engagement.
• Ensure compliance with security policies, defence standards and industry regulations.
• Lead capacity planning, performance optimisation and operational resilience initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and architectural guidance to engineering teams.
• Act as a trusted advisor to customers and senior stakeholders, translating complex technical concepts into business outcomes.
• Support disaster recovery, business continuity, security hardening and incident response planning.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions that improve capability, security and efficiency.

Skills

Enterprise IT infrastructure

Cloud & hybrid infra

Virtualisation & storage & networking

Migration programmes

Architecture frameworks

TOGAF/ArchiMate/SAFe

Security & governance

Stakeholder management

Architectural leadership

Tools

VMware

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Job description

DXC Technology is seeking an Infrastructure / Platform Architect to lead enterprise infrastructure architecture across compute, storage, networking and virtualization for on‑prem and cloud environments. The role focuses on cloud/hybrid strategies, security alignment and major migration programmes.

You will provide technical leadership, mentor engineering teams and act as a trusted advisor to executives, translating complex technical concepts into business outcomes.