Infrastructure Technical Architect - Bridgend - SC and NPPV3

Infrastructure Technical Architect - Bridgend - £550 - £650 per day - INSIDE IR35 - 6 months contract (with extensions) - SC Cleared/NPPV3 cleared

A technical architect works with delivery teams on problems that require broad architectural thinking and technical expertise. This includes responsibility for making sure the technical strategy is agreed followed and delivered.

Please note this role is based full time on site in Bridgend and is for 3 days per week NOT FULL TIME

At this role level, you will provide:

Key Responsibilities

Deliver and implement infrastructure and technical solutions in line with project requirements.

Support and manage changes to infrastructure services following established processes and best practices.

Develop and maintain Low Level Designs, technical documentation, and Disaster Recovery plans.

Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and knowledge transfer to colleagues and support teams.

Liaise with customers, suppliers, third parties, and internal teams to ensure successful project delivery.

Participate in project planning, cost estimation, and workflow management.

Support backup administration, OS installations, patching, and out-of-hours change activities where required.

Technical Skills Required

Strong demonstrable knowledge and hands-on experience with virtualisation technologies, including VMware and Hyper-V.

Experience working with Windows Server Operating Systems from 2008 onwards.

Strong PowerShell Scripting and automation experience.

Proven experience delivering infrastructure implementations and technical project work within enterprise environments.

Strong understanding of infrastructure best practices, documentation, and operational support processes.

Experience with Microsoft Azure & Azure Local solutions.

Knowledge or experience of Ansible Scripting for windows server build automation.

• Technical Authority - the day-to-day responsibility for all technical aspects of a project, both internally and at client sites. Be responsible for governance, solving complex and high risk issues or delivering architecture designs within area of expertise.
• Technical Leadership - communication of the technical vision to the delivery team and achieving buy-in. Be responsible for leading the technical design within a project, justifying and communicating design decisions with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Technology Architecture - providing the guidelines and standards that define the patterns, practices and technologies adopted within system component[PM3.1]s. Defining and collaborating with others to establish/apply best practice.
• Security - providing the principles and guidelines that define how the solution is to be secured and how that security will be tested/monitored.
• Technical Quality - applying technical governance, code reviews, design reviews, continuous integration and automated testing
• Non-Functional Champion - understanding a system's non-functional requirements, how they are achieved via the proposed architecture, and how they are validated and tested

Infrastructure Technical Architect - Bridgend - £550 - £650 per day - INSIDE IR35 - 6 months contract (with extentions)

This temporary contract is inside IR35 and will require working under the direction of the client delivery manager as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The successful candidate will follow established delivery processes and working practices

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