Infrastructure Architect - SC Cleared

Infrastructure Architect - SC Cleared

Permanent

Basingstoke

The role will report into the Lead Architect and assist in defining designs in line with requirements and encompass the following disciplines and responsibilities:

• Provide technical input to qualification and business approval meetings.
• Assist with the shaping of technical proposals
• Assists with the definition of larger/more complex solutions
• Contributes to definition of customers' overall IT architecture,
• The production of the required level of infrastructure design documentation.
• During transformation, liaising with programme, operational capability teams and the customer.
• Maintain reusable collateral for future opportunities
• Interacting with other Architect and programme disciplines during delivery and/or transformation to operations and EMEIA wide teams to ensure architectural conformance to process model and standards.
• Liaise with and assist with managing 3rd parties and their technical deliverables.
• Provide impact assessment on customer and internal Change Requests.

Essential Skills

• Client-facing skills, with the ability to communicate ideas and thoughts to senior executives.
• A detailed knowledge of the Infrastructure Design Methodology and implementation.
• Experience of infrastructure architecture and design for major IT systems.
• Written communications - clear technical writing and presentation.
• Excellent design experience in proposing and utilizing Microsoft server technologies including Windows Server 2012 R2.
• Core infrastructure solutions delivery which combine both physical and virtual server implementations, throughout the design and implementation lifecycle.
• VMWare VSphere v6.0.
• Server physical architecture design including usage of System Architect (preferable).
• HPPT AS design and implementation.
• SCOM/SCCM design and configuration.
• SNMPv3, Syslog, NTP design and configuration.
• Active Directory/DHCP services.
• RDS design and implementation.

Desirable Skills

• ITIL version 3 Practitioner.
• Netscaler (Load balancers), Juniper IDS and IPS.
• DNS and IPAM knowledge.
• Design of network within virtualized infrastructure.
• Encryption devices, CAPs assured products such as Catapan.
• DWDM services.
• Network Management toolsets.
• Networking protocols such as TCP and UDP.
• IP Addressing design.
• Core Infrastructure troubleshooting.
• Passive infrastructure - i.e. OM3 fibre, 62.5 /50 micron, fibre termination types.

Due to the secure nature of this role the successful candidate will be required to be SC Cleared prior to starting.

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