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Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements: Proven experience designing enterprise-scale, highly available data centre architectures.Strong expertise across hybrid cloud environments, including Azure, AWS, and/or GCP.Deep knowledge of VMware, Hyper-V, Kubernetes, Docker, and modern virtualisation technologies.Advanced understanding of networking, including LAN/WAN, SDN, firewalls, load balancing, and network segmentation.Experience with enterprise storage, backup, replication, and disaster recovery solutions.Strong knowledge of security frameworks, Zero Trust architecture, and compliance standards such as ISO 27001 and PCI-DSS.Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools, including Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, or Python.Proven ability to lead complex transformation programmes, migrations, and infrastructure modernisation initiatives.Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience engaging senior leadership and business stakeholders.Excellent communication, documentation, governance, and strategic planning capabilities.Desirable: Experience with VMware NSX, vSAN, and Software-Defined Data Centre technologies.Desirable: Experience with edge computing and distributed infrastructure architectures.Desirable: Experience with green data centre and sustainability initiatives.Desirable: Experience with AI/ML, GPU, and high-performance computing environments.Desirable: Experience with advanced observability and AIOps platforms such as Dynatrace or AppDynamics.Desirable: FinOps and infrastructure cost optimisation experience.Desirable: Experience with DevSecOps integration and secure automation practices.Desirable: Experience delivering large-scale data centre exits, relocations, or cloud migration programmes. Responsibilities: We will define and own the enterprise data centre architecture roadmap across compute, storage, network, security, and resilience.We will design scalable, secure, and highly available on-premises and hybrid cloud environments.We will architect Windows, Linux, VMware, and virtualisation platforms, ensuring operational excellence and lifecycle management.We will lead large-scale transformation programmes, including data centre consolidation, migrations, modernisation, and cloud adoption.We will design and govern backup, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience strategies, including immutable backup solutions.We will drive observability, monitoring, and reliability engineering frameworks across enterprise infrastructure.We will embed security-first and Zero Trust principles into infrastructure designs.We will optimise infrastructure performance, capacity, licensing, and operational costs.We will collaborate with senior stakeholders, business leaders, security teams, and technology vendors to deliver strategic outcomes.We will provide technical leadership, mentoring, and governance across architecture and engineering teams. Technologies: AIAWSAnsibleArchitectAzureCloudDevSecOpsDockerDynatraceGCPHyper-VKubernetesLANLinuxLoad BalancingNetworkPowerShellPythonSecurityTerraformVMwareWindows More:
We are recruiting a Data Centre Architect for a 12-month contract, inside IR35, in the retail sector. The role is based in Berkshire with hybrid working. You will work within a major transformation programme focused on shaping the future of enterprise infrastructure through large-scale data centre modernisation, hybrid cloud integration, and critical business transformation initiatives.
last updated 41 week of 2026