Technical Infrastructure Architect

**Role Summary**

The role may require some travel.

**Department Information**

The Infrastructure Architecture team delivers the technical leadership, governance and infrastructure designs for projects, and demand for these activities is growing at a fast pace. This is a small, strong team that engages directly with wider IT supportareas, business sponsors and frequently directly with Clients. There is a strong engagement with the principal technology suppliers, especially Microsoft and Dell, and this provides opportunities for collaboration with them on new pre-release products.

**Core Duties/Responsibilities**
- Maintaining an awareness of the wider Equiniti environment by creating and communicating standards, governance processes, approved architecture models, systems and technologies deployed and corporate and IT strategies.
- Acting as a key resource in the project lifecycle, from driving the initiation and infrastructure design, to overseeing implementation.
- Producing high level and detailed technical designs and documentation for complex technical solutions. Mapping requirements onto practical, maintainable solutions, taking into account cost, quality and complexity.
- Creating and maintaining a repository for infrastructure artefacts covering the infrastructure architecture continuum.
- Participate in Architecture design reviews and other technical governance forums across the organisation representing the infrastructure team across multiple projects.
- Assisting in defining and maintaining architectural, security and technical standards, reflecting evolving technology and emerging best practice.
- Providing ongoing mentoring to others in IT, including support teams.

**Skills, Capabilities and Attributes**
- Sound understanding of broader Data Centre technologies (Server, Storage, Networks, Server Virtualisation etc.)
- Understand complex networking topologies and technologies.
- Strong communicator, capable of understanding business requirements and translating them into IT approaches.
- Create relevant build and design standards which promote re-use and also shorten the delivery lifecycle of infrastructure assets. Participate in architecture design reviews and provide appropriate architecture governance.
- Track record of successfully achieving project deadlines, budgets and quality standard.
- Industry certification and knowledge of architecture and delivery frameworks a distinct advantage (MCSE, CCNA, TOGAF, Prince2).

**Technical Ability**

In depth experience of designing, securing, implementing and supporting enterprise solutions in a primarily Microsoft Windows environment, utilising:

- Microsoft Active Directory spanning multiple forests and sites.
- Core Microsoft technologies e.g. SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint.
- Deployment, configuration management and monitoring systems, such as Microsoft System Centre.
- Virtualisation of servers & desktops utilising VMware and Microsoft technologies.
- High availability and load balancing including Microsoft clustering and hardware load balancers.
- SAN storage solutions
- Microsoft 365 Services and Solutions
- Infrastructure security platforms and tooling
- Secure File Transfer Platforms and File Services

**EQ Benefits**

Being a permanent member of the team at EQ you will rewarded by our company benefits, these are just a few of what is on offer:

- Comprehensive training with clearly defined career progression opportunities
- 28 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Flexible benefit which you can use to 'purchase' additional benefits which include, private health insurance, travel insurance, gym memberships and many more you can chose from, or get it paid your flexible benefit amount on top of your annual salary
- Life assurance x 4 of your annual salary
- Opportunity to join a great pension scheme
- Staff engagement - Opportunities to receive recognition and rewards.
- Great learning support

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