About the role
You will design end-to-end infrastructure: data centre and cloud, compute, storage, networks, identity and backup. You will turn business needs into resilient, secure and cost-effective designs, and guide engineers through delivery.
What you will do
- Design infrastructure solutions for clients from requirements to build
- Set reference architectures for hosting, hybrid cloud and disaster recovery
- Produce high- and low-level designs and bills of materials
- Review designs for security, resilience and cost
- Guide engineers during build and handover
- Support pre-sales with solution designs and pricing
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years in infrastructure engineering, including 3+ years as an architect
- Designed and delivered hybrid infrastructure (on-premises and cloud) for business clients (examples you can walk us through)
- Current AWS Solutions Architect Professional or Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
- Virtualisation, storage and network design at enterprise scale
- Design to ISO 27001 and NCSC guidance
- English at CEFR C1 or above (IELTS 7.0 or equivalent)
Expert knowledge
- Resilience design: failure domains, N+1 and 2N, RPO/RTO and active-active patterns
- Hybrid networking: SD-WAN, private connectivity (Direct Connect, ExpressRoute) and segmentation
- Capacity and cost modelling for compute, storage and bandwidth
- Identity architecture: Active Directory, Entra ID, federation and privileged access
Preferred qualifications
- TOGAF certification
- VMware VCDX or VCAP
- Experience designing colocation builds
- Pre-sales solution architecture
Before any offer we verify your certificates, qualifications, references and right to work in the UK. Security roles also need background screening (BPSS) and may need security clearance.
SOWTK is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of every background and do not discriminate on any characteristic protected by the Equality Act 2010.