Infrastructure Solutions Architect (Data Retention) (InfraSOLUTIONSAAA) Edinburgh, Scotland
| Salary: | GBP600 - GBP700 per day |
To be considered it is important that the candidate is a skilled Engineer/Architect with a solid technical background in Infrastructure.
Location: 2 days per week onsite – multiple Northern locations (please note, you must be within a commutable distance to Yorkshire or Scotland to be considered.
Rate: £600-£680 inside
Duration: 6 months initial contract – project running until 2027, so it will likely be long-term
Essential skills and experience:
• 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
Technical Skills and Knowledge
• 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
Location: 2 days per week onsite – multiple Northern locations (please note, you must be within a commutable distance to Yorkshire or Scotland to be considered.
Rate: £600-£680 inside
Duration: 6 months initial contract – project running until 2027, so it will likely be long-term
Essential skills and experience:
• 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
Technical Skills and Knowledge
• 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