About this role
Salary: £61,000 - 101,000 per year
Requirements: Substantial IT infrastructure experience, including significant experience in infrastructure, platform or solution architecture roles.Experience generating, reviewing and assuring Service Designs and High-Level Designs (HLDs) in complex, multi-supplier or regulated environments.Credible customer-facing experience, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders, architects and engineering teams.Strong knowledge of enterprise infrastructure architecture across compute, storage, network, backup, recovery, virtualisation, platform management and observability.Strong VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and NSX knowledge, including platform lifecycle, resilience, management and workload considerations.Understanding of Kubernetes and container platforms, such as Red Hat OpenShift or VMware Tanzu.Understanding of infrastructure automation and configuration management, including tools such as Ansible and Terraform, Git-based workflows and CI/CD controls.Familiarity with IAM, IDAM / IGA, PAM, authentication, federation and enterprise directory services.Experience with Secure by Design, security assurance and technical risk management.Strategic perspective combined with sufficient technical depth to assess designs and challenge supporting evidence.Ability to operate effectively where responsibilities are shared across customer, SDT and delivery-supplier organisations.Eligibility to meet applicable UK Government and contractual personnel security requirements, including residency requirements for the role, and the right to work in the United Kingdom. Some roles may also be subject to nationality requirements where needed to meet security obligations. 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 agreed requirements, policies, standards and architectural direction.Work with supplier designers early to clarify intent, identify dependencies and reduce avoidable design rework.Apply Secure by Design principles and support continual security assurance throughout the capability lifecycle.Work with security specialists, risk owners and accreditors or assurance authorities to ensure infrastructure designs provide appropriate evidence for security and risk decisions.Assess platform integration with IAM, IDAM / IGA, PAM, authentication, federation, directory services, service identities and break-glass arrangements.Provide architecture guidance for container platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift and VMware Tanzu, where applicable.Promote repeatable and supportable infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management practices using tools such as Ansible, Terraform and controlled Git-based workflows.Contribute to integration, test, migration, transition and operational-readiness planning, including cross-service dependencies and acceptance evidence.Provide clear infrastructure and platform advice to customer stakeholders and architecture leadership within the scope delegated to the role.Facilitate workshops and design reviews, presenting options, risks and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences. Technologies: AnsibleArchitectCI/CDCloudGitIAMSupportKubernetesNetworkOpenShiftSecurityTerraformVMware More:
We are DXC Technology, and we are committed to building diverse, inclusive teams. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, particularly women, underrepresented groups and neurodivergent candidates, and offer reasonable adjustments throughout the hiring process to help create a supportive, accessible environment. This is a senior, customer-facing Infrastructure / Platform Architect role in the customers multidisciplinary System Design Team in Farnborough, onsite five days per week. The team maintains the end-to-end Solution Architecture and provides governance and assurance of designs produced by delivery organisations. The role works with customer stakeholders, security assurance personnel and delivery partners, with an emphasis on architecture governance, design assurance, cross-domain coordination and technical influence; delivery suppliers remain accountable for their designs and implementation artefacts. Our work model prioritises in-person collaboration while offering flexibility to support wellbeing, productivity, individual work styles and life circumstances. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. We do not make employment offers via social media or ask applicants for money or payment, or to purchase equipment on our behalf, during recruitment.
last updated 39 week of 2026