Solution Architect

Solution Architect

Location: Remote with occasional travel to London

Day Rate: £750 - £800 Per Day Inside IR35

I am working with a longstanding client who are one of the country's leading and most well-respected IT Solutions and Services providers. They have a fantastic track record in delivering large scale technology and service solutions for both enterprise level private sector and public sector organisations.

They are now looking for a Storage Solution Architect to join their team on a three - six month contract to support the delivery of a large and business critical strategic programme of work that is focused on the transformation and modernisation of their customer's on-premises environment.

The successful candidate will be creating High Level Designs, roadmaps, reference architecture and providing support to the platform engineering teams.

Skills & Experience Required

Architecture Experience

• Experience in a Solution Architect role delivering projects and technical solutions
• Experience with enterprise strategies covering capacity planning, performance optimisation, data lifecycle management, tiering and storage governance.
• Experience operating within mature architecture governance functions.
• Experience working within global and highly regulated organisations.
• Financial Services experience is desirable but not essential.

Technical Expertise

• Technical expertise in Nutanix technologies including AHV, Prism Central, lifecycle management, automation, resilience and disaster recovery.
• Technical expertise in Dell enterprise storage platforms, including PowerStore, PowerScale, PowerMax, ECS and associated storage networking technologies.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise compute platforms including x86 server infrastructure, hyperconverged infrastructure, virtualisation, hardware lifecycle management and workload placement strategies.
• Knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift and container platform architectures, including Kubernetes, container orchestration, platform operations, workload placement, application hosting, infrastructure integration, resilience, observability and hybrid cloud deployment models.
• Experience with backup, recovery, cyber resilience and business continuity strategies, including immutable storage, replication, ransomware recovery and disaster recovery architectures. Experience working with Rubrik is an advantage.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure automation, orchestration and management tooling, including APIs, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management and platform observability.
• Knowledge of hybrid cloud integration and workload mobility across on-premises and public cloud environments.
• Experience designing highly available and resilient infrastructure architectures, including fault domain design, operational support models and recovery objectives.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure security principles including segmentation, encryption, privileged access controls, vulnerability management and secure-by-design architecture practices.

Leadership & Influence

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to drive consensus across diverse stakeholder groups.

Qualifications/Certifications

• Professional or academic qualifications in a technology-related discipline
• Enterprise Architecture certification (e.g. TOGAF®, Open CA, BCS Enterprise & Solution Architecture, or equivalent).
• Cloud, Security, Architecture, or Microsoft certifications

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