Senior Infrastructure Architect

Regal Cloud; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Regal Cloud is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Solution Architect to own an enterprise edge infrastructure across multiple sites. The role is hybrid, focusing on standardised patterns and scalable hosting across edge, core and cloud.

You will shape reference architectures, govern design decisions and collaborate with infrastructure, network, security and operations teams to deliver a cohesive platform.

Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise hybrid infrastructure and distributed platforms.
• Knowledge of virtualization, HCI and enterprise storage.
• Experience with Kubernetes and container hosting.
• Strong HA, resilience, backup and DR capabilities.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and lifecycle management.
• Experience with reference architecture development and design authority.

Responsibilities

• Define the enterprise edge reference architecture and platform roadmap.
• Create standardised infrastructure patterns for factory requirements.
• Evaluate Azure Local, Dell NativeEdge, VMware and Nutanix.
• Design resilient hosting platforms across compute, storage, virtualization, containers and backup/DR.
• Define workload placement strategies across edge, core and cloud.
• Provide architecture governance and technical assurance.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, network, security and operations teams.

Skills

Hybrid infrastructure

Virtualization

Kubernetes hosting

HA & DR

Automation

Architecture governance

Tools

Azure Local

Dell NativeEdge

VMware

Nutanix

Job description

Senior Infrastructure Solution Architect – Hybrid Infrastructure

We are recruiting a Senior Solution Architect to support a major enterprise infrastructure programme focused on establishing a standardised edge computing platform across multiple locations.

This role will take architectural ownership of a distributed hosting environment supporting virtual machines, Kubernetes/container workloads, manufacturing applications, data platforms and future AI capabilities.

The primary objective is to establish scalable, reusable infrastructure architectures that can be deployed consistently across multiple sites.

What You'll Be Doing

• Defining the enterprise edge reference architecture and platform roadmap.
• Creating standardised infrastructure patterns for different factory requirements.
• Evaluating technologies including Azure Local, Dell NativeEdge, VMware and Nutanix.
• Designing resilient hosting platforms across compute, storage, virtualisation, containers and backup/DR.
• Defining workload placement strategies across edge, core and cloud.
• Providing architecture governance and technical assurance.
• Working with infrastructure, network, security and operations teams to support platform delivery.

What We're Looking For

You'll be an experienced Infrastructure or Solution Architect with strong knowledge of:

• Enterprise hybrid infrastructure and distributed platforms.
• Virtualisation, HCI and enterprise storage.
• Kubernetes and container hosting.
• High availability, resilience, backup and disaster recovery.
• Infrastructure automation and operational lifecycle management.
• Reference architecture development, HLDs and design authority.

We're particularly interested in architects who have designed enterprise infrastructure services that can be standardised and repeatedly deployed across multiple locations.