Senior Distributed Edge Platform Architect

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

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.