Senior Infrastructure Platform Architect – Cloud & Security

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Enhanced pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Flexible working arrangements

Professional development & training

Defence sector opportunities

Job summary

DXC Technology is seeking an Infrastructure Platform Architect in Farnborough to lead enterprise-scale infrastructure design and implementation for defence and aerospace clients. The role focuses on cloud strategy, hybrid architectures, and secure, compliant environments.

You will drive modernisation programmes, architect resilient platforms, and mentor technical teams while coordinating with senior stakeholders and customers to deliver mission-critical outcomes.

Qualifications

• Extensive IT infrastructure experience in an architecture role.
• Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale infrastructure platforms.
• Strong background in cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, or equivalent).
• Deep expertise in virtualization, storage and high-availability design.

Responsibilities

• Design and define enterprise infrastructure architectures spanning compute, storage, networking and virtualization.
• Lead cloud strategy and hybrid infrastructure roadmaps.
• Guide infrastructure modernisation programmes and technology refresh initiatives.
• Ensure designs meet security requirements and defence standards.
• Present architecture recommendations to stakeholders and customers.

Skills

IT infrastructure

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Security & compliance

Stakeholder engagement

Strategic thinking

Communication

Problem solving

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

KVM

AWS

Azure

Job description

DXC Technology is seeking an Infrastructure Platform Architect in Farnborough to lead enterprise-scale infrastructure design and implementation for defence and aerospace clients. The role focuses on cloud strategy, hybrid architectures, and secure, compliant environments.

You will drive modernisation programmes, architect resilient platforms, and mentor technical teams while coordinating with senior stakeholders and customers to deliver mission-critical outcomes.