We are looking for Infrastructure Architects and experienced Cloud Infrastructure professionals to design and support secure, resilient, scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective infrastructure across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The role focuses on designing the infrastructure foundation for modern enterprise solutions, with particular emphasis on cloud platforms, compute, storage, networking, containerisation, Infrastructure-as-Code, high availability, disaster recovery, and data-intensive/AI/ML workloads. Candidates with different levels of experience are encouraged to apply, from strong infrastructure/cloud engineers looking to move into architecture through to experienced Infrastructure Architects.
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Key Responsibilities
- Design end-to-end infrastructure architectures across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
- Define architecture across compute, storage, networking, databases, and platform services based on business and technical requirements.
- Design infrastructure requirements for data-intensive and AI/ML workloads, including GPU compute, high-throughput storage, scalable processing, and inference environments.
- Establish and maintain standards for Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), environment management, automation, and configuration consistency.
- Design highly available infrastructure architectures with appropriate backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, RTO and RPO requirements.
- Ensure infrastructure designs meet security, compliance, data residency, and regulatory requirements.
- Perform capacity planning and cost optimisation, including resource right-sizing based on workload requirements.
- Review infrastructure architecture and technical changes and provide guidance to infrastructure, cloud, DevSecOps, and engineering teams.
- Support implementation teams by providing architecture guidance, technical standards, and recommended design patterns.
- Evaluate emerging cloud and infrastructure technologies and provide recommendations for adoption where appropriate.
- Contribute to infrastructure modernization, cloud migration, scalability, resilience, and performance improvement initiatives.
Required Qualifications
- Relevant experience in cloud infrastructure architecture or engineering
- Experience with AWS, Azure, and/or GCP
- Strong understanding of networking and virtualization
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
- Expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools
- Understanding of security and IAM practices
- Knowledge of high availability and disaster recovery standards
- Experience in infrastructure performance and capacity planning
Experience Levels
- 0–5 Years: Cloud/Infrastructure Engineers with strong hands-on exposure and a clear interest in architecture.
- 5–10 Years: Senior Cloud/Infrastructure Engineers with architecture and design experience.
- 10–15 Years: Infrastructure/Cloud Architects with enterprise-scale design and governance experience.
- 15+ Years: Lead/Principal Infrastructure Architects capable of owning complex enterprise and hybrid-cloud architecture strategies.
