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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