Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Solutions Architect

The Pearson Whiffin Recruitment Group; Dunstable; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

The Pearson Whiffin Recruitment Group is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with a strong focus on cloud, platforms and solution design to join our technology team. You will review high-level and low-level designs, ensure solutions are robust, scalable and secure, and partner with architects and delivery partners.

You will bring hands-on experience across Azure, VMware, hybrid environments and IaC tools, and you will drive security by design, governance and continuous improvement across

Qualifications

• Experience reviewing and contributing to High-Level and Low-Level Designs (HLD/LLD).
• Ability to assess infrastructure solutions against functional and non-functional requirements.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure architecture principles and standards.
• Experience identifying risks and proposing pragmatic alternatives.
• Ability to engage confidently with architects, engineers and third-party suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Review HLDs and LLDs to ensure designs are sound and aligned with architecture principles.
• Provide technical governance across infrastructure projects, identifying risks and dependencies.
• Support cloud, virtualised and hybrid infrastructure engineering.
• Drive infrastructure modernisation including cloud adoption and platform consolidation.
• Act as senior technical authority and guide internal teams and partners.
• Incorporate security, resilience and disaster recovery in designs.
• Collaborate with solution architects and delivery partners to translate requirements into solutions.
• Identify opportunities to improve performance, reliability and automation.

Skills

Azure Cloud

Microsoft 365

VMware vSphere

VMware vSAN

Hybrid hosting

HLD/LLD review

Security by design

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell

Kubernetes

Governance

Architecture principles

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell

Kubernetes

Job description

The Pearson Whiffin Recruitment Group is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with a strong focus on cloud, platforms and solution design to join our technology team. You will review high-level and low-level designs, ensure solutions are robust, scalable and secure, and partner with architects and delivery partners.

You will bring hands-on experience across Azure, VMware, hybrid environments and IaC tools, and you will drive security by design, governance and continuous improvement across