Senior Infrastructure Architect - Cloud, Hybrid & Automation

your Jared; Guildford; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Technopride Ltd in Guildford is seeking an Infrastructure Technical Architect to design, deliver, and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure across cloud, on‑prem, and hybrid environments. You will define standards, roadmaps, and runbooks, collaborating with engineering, security, and operations teams.

The role emphasizes automation with IaC (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation), cost management, high availability, disaster recovery, and architectural documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end infrastructure solutions across public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and on‑premises environments, ensuring alignment with performance, availability, security, and compliance requirements.
• Lead infrastructure modernization initiatives including cloud migrations, data center consolidation, and platform upgrades.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure reference architectures, standards, and reusable design patterns covering networking, compute, storage, virtualization, containers, and platform services.
• Collaborate with application, DevOps, and security teams to ensure seamless integration, automation, and secure configuration of infrastructure services.
• Drive automation using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, Ansible, etc.) and CI/CD practices to improve consistency and reduce manual work.
• Assess new infrastructure technologies, conduct proof-of-concepts, and recommend cost-effective, scalable solutions.
• Lead capacity planning, performance optimization, and cost-management activities, including lifecycle governance for infrastructure components.
• Define and support high-availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and backup strategies.
• Produce and maintain architectural documentation including solution diagrams, standards, runbooks, technical recommendations, and impact assessments.
• Mentor engineering and operations teams through design reviews, architecture coaching, and technical guidance.
• Participate in incident reviews and postmortems, identifying architectural improvements to enhance stability and prevent recurrence.

Skills

Hybrid cloud architecture

Public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Networking & DNS

Virtualization (VMware/Hyper-V)

Containers (Docker/Kubernetes)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Anis

Security & IAM

Observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Dat

Backup & DR planning

Cost optimization

Runbooks & documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

VMware

Hyper-V

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

ELK/EFK

Job description

Technopride Ltd in Guildford is seeking an Infrastructure Technical Architect to design, deliver, and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure across cloud, on‑prem, and hybrid environments. You will define standards, roadmaps, and runbooks, collaborating with engineering, security, and operations teams.

The role emphasizes automation with IaC (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation), cost management, high availability, disaster recovery, and architectural documentation.