Senior Infrastructure & Platform Architect (VMware/OpenShift)

Hackajob Ltd; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

Hackajob Ltd in Farnborough is seeking a senior Infrastructure/Platform Architect for a customer-facing, onsite role in the System Design Team. You will contribute infrastructure and platform expertise to end-to-end solution architecture, governance and assurance.

You will review supplier designs, provide guidance on VCF/NSX, Kubernetes/OpenShift, IaC (Ansible/Terraform), and secure by design practices, working with security and delivery partners.

Qualifications

• Substantial IT infrastructure experience, including infrastructure, platform or solution architecture roles.
• Experience generating, reviewing and assuring Service Designs and High-Level Designs (HLDs) in complex environments.
• Customer-facing experience with the ability to influence senior stakeholders, architects and engineering teams.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise infrastructure architecture across compute, storage, networking, backup, recovery, virtualization, platform management and observability.
• Familiarity with IAM, IDAM / IGA, PAM, authentication, federation and directory services.
• Experience with Secure by Design, security assurance and risk management.
• Ability to work across customer, System Design Team and delivery-supplier organisations.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of infrastructure and platform viewpoints within the end-to-end Solution Architecture.
• Provide architecture guidance across VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), NSX, compute, storage, backup, recovery, networking, management and shared platform services.
• Review and assure supplier-produced Service Designs, HLDs and supporting artefacts against requirements, policies, standards and architectural direction.
• Work with supplier designers early to clarify design intent, identify dependencies and reduce rework.
• Apply Secure by Design principles and support security assurance throughout the capability lifecycle.
• Collaborate with security specialists and risk owners to ensure evidence for security decisions.
• Assess platform integration with IAM/IDAM/IGA, PAM, authentication and directory services.
• Provide architecture guidance for container platforms (OpenShift, Kubernetes) where applicable.
• Promote infrastructure-as-code practices using Ansible, Terraform and Git-based workflows.
• Contribute to integration, test, migration, and readiness planning.
• Provide clear infrastructure and platform advice to stakeholders and leadership.
• Facilitate workshops and design reviews with technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Infrastructure architecture

Stakeholder influence

Security by design

Solution architecture

End-to-end governance

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Git

Kubernetes

OpenShift

VMware NSX

Job description

Hackajob Ltd in Farnborough is seeking a senior Infrastructure/Platform Architect for a customer-facing, onsite role in the System Design Team. You will contribute infrastructure and platform expertise to end-to-end solution architecture, governance and assurance.

You will review supplier designs, provide guidance on VCF/NSX, Kubernetes/OpenShift, IaC (Ansible/Terraform), and secure by design practices, working with security and delivery partners.