Role Title
DDI Architect
Duration
Contract to run until 28/11/2026
Location
Sheffield, Hybrid 3 days per week onsite
Rate
Up to £533.60 p/d Umbrella inside IR35
Role Purpose / Summary
DDI (DNS, DHCP & IPAM) Subject Matter Expert. We are seeking a highly skilled DDI (DNS, DHCP & IPAM) subject matter expert with extensive experience in the DDI technology space.
Key Responsibilities
- Infrastructure Projects: Demonstrated experience in planning, implementing, and supporting large-scale DDI infrastructure projects, including both physical (servers, appliances) and logical (software versions, product changes, data migrations) upgrades and migrations.
- Design and Deployment: Expertise in designing, deploying, and operationalizing DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) infrastructure across new environments, ensuring a consumable and scalable service for internal stakeholders.
- Risk Management: Solid understanding of risk assessment and management, including the ability to address headwind challenges and assess downstream user or service impacts.
- Communication Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work constructively and collaboratively within a team as well as independently, across time zones, geographies, and languages. Proficiency in English is essential.
- Project Management: Understanding of industry standard project management methodologies, tooling, and governance, with a proven track record of planning, documenting, and managing infrastructure project implementations.
- Technical Expertise: Must have expert level engineering experience with DDI technologies such as Cygna VitalQIP, AMS & AMMs, EfficientIP, Infoblox, and F5 BIG IP DNS.
- Network Protocols: Experience with network protocols including TCP/IP, UDP, and DNS.
- Automation and Scripting: Familiarity with automation and scripting languages (shell, Ansible, VBA, Python, JavaScript, JSON, API integration or development) is advantageous but not mandatory.
- Agile Experience: Experience working in an Agile team, participating in agile ceremonies, and a working knowledge of JIRA is beneficial.