
Xcede
Compute & Storage Architect
Job Description
Salary: £70,000 - 75,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong Nutanix experience, ideally including AHV and Prism Central.
- Enterprise Dell Storage experience, including PowerStore, PowerScale, PowerMax or ECS.
- Strong understanding of compute, virtualisation, HCI and enterprise infrastructure.
- Experience across DR, backup, resilience and high-availability architectures.
- Knowledge of OpenShift/Kubernetes and hybrid cloud environments.
- Experience within large, complex or highly regulated organisations is highly desirable.
- Develop High Level Designs, reference architectures, standards and technical roadmaps.
- Design enterprise compute, storage, virtualisation and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions.
- Provide architectural expertise across Nutanix AHV, Prism Central and Dell enterprise storage.
- Design highly available, resilient and recoverable infrastructure, including backup, DR and cyber resilience.
- Support OpenShift/Kubernetes and hybrid cloud infrastructure architectures.
- Identify opportunities for automation, Infrastructure as Code and platform optimisation.
- Architect
- Cloud
- Support
- Kubernetes
- Nutanix
- OpenShift
More:
We are looking for an experienced Compute & Storage Solution Architect to support a major infrastructure transformation and modernisation programme for a leading global organisation. The role focuses on shaping the future of our on-premise compute and storage environment, working closely with engineering teams to turn architecture into delivery. This is a 6 month initial contract, inside IR35, with an immediate start and a flexible hybrid working model across London, Bristol and Edinburgh.
last updated 38 week of 2026
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Xcede
South East London
IT
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£72,500
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£90,000
UK median
This salary is 19% below the UK median for Architects (£90,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks