Infrastructure Solution Architect – Leeds/ Halifax
Hybrid
Leeds, United Kingdom
£ 93 / hour
Freelance
31-03-2025
Job Specifications
Infrastructure Solution Architect – Leeds/ Halifax
Gibbs Consulting are looking for several Infrastructure Solution Architects to support a backup and recovery modernisation project for the data centres. The Backup & recovery team has been charged with modernising the legacy backup systems across the estate with a new enterprise backup system and also give protection from Ransomware.
Creating positive relationships with Enterprise Architecture, ensuring design decisions are aligned with overarching enterprise architectural standards and strategies
Collaborating and leading with our platform teams to support the development and integration of roadmaps, defining migration methodologies to facilitate the movement of applications and infrastructure to the new datacentre
Gaining a deep understanding of the environments and the systems integration challenges facing major transformation and migration initiatives
Operating at an architectural level but also knowing how to design and deploy infrastructure change
Working with technical delivery managers to support planning, costing, and brokering the interaction with SME’s. Translating the complex and ambiguous requirements into clear and concise designs
Essential:
Engineer/Architect with a solid technical background in Infrastructure.
Strong organisational, analytical and system thinking skills!
Deep understanding of modern backup and recovery processes, practices and tooling, from both a platform, enterprise and organisational viewpoint.
Familiarity with the Financial Conduct Authority operational resilience requirements.
Understanding and experience of architecture analysis techniques and processes
Understanding and experience in systems and software engineering design across the whole lifecycle
Understanding the Principles of Secure by Design
Experience of Agile Development Principles and Methods
Familiarity with DevOps and DevSecOps practices, processes, and toolsets
Familiarity with the principles of IT Service Management
Excellent collaboration, interpersonal and communications skills
Analysis and current state assessments
Distributed / X86 technologies including Windows, RHEL & Containers - both virtualised and Physical
Midrange technologies including IBM Power Series (System I & System P), HP-UX & Sun Solaris
Traditional On Prem hosting and Cloud hosting (On -Premise and Off-Premise)
Monitoring and Alerting systems. Deployment systems (OS, Application & Patching)
Capacity planning and forecasting of systems for initial footprint and future growth
Backup and Recovery systems including Ransomware Vaulting
Storage and Archive systems. Disaster recovery and resilience patterns
High availability patterns. Data replication technologies
Software Defined Networks for Data Centres. Infrastructure blueprint / pattern definition
Mainframe technologies including IBM System Z, Unisys Dorado & Unisys Libra
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About the Company
Gibbs Consulting provides innovative, flexible, on-demand IT Services SOW and IT Consulting that delivers value and successful outcomes for our clients. We operate across the UK, Ireland, Poland, Luxembourg, US and India and service other European locations. Sales since inception of over $650M, we are a vibrant and diverse team of 400+ technical professionals and our mission is to be the go-to partner for Technology Services and Solutions and be the primary DE&I strategic partner whilst championing diversity in the technol... Know more
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