Infrastructure / Platform Architect

Salary: £61,000 - 101,000 per year

Requirements:

• Substantial IT infrastructure experience, including significant experience in infrastructure, platform or solution architecture roles.
• Experience generating, reviewing and assuring Service Designs and HLDs in complex, multi-supplier or regulated environments.
• Credible customer-facing experience, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders, architects and engineering teams.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise infrastructure architecture across compute, storage, network, backup, recovery, virtualisation, platform management and observability.
• Strong VMware VCF and NSX knowledge, including platform lifecycle, resilience, management and workload considerations.
• Understanding of Kubernetes and container platforms, such as OpenShift or VMware Tanzu.
• Understanding of infrastructure automation and configuration management, including tools such as Ansible and Terraform, Git-based workflows and CI/CD controls.
• Familiarity with IAM, IDAM / IGA, PAM, authentication, federation and enterprise directory services.
• Experience of Secure by Design, security assurance and technical risk management.
• Strategic perspective combined with sufficient technical depth to assess designs and challenge supporting evidence.
• Ability to operate effectively where responsibilities are shared across customer, SDT and delivery-supplier organisations.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of the infrastructure and platform viewpoints within the end-to-end Solution Architecture.
• Provide architecture guidance across VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), NSX, compute, storage, backup, recovery, networking, management and shared platform services.
• Review and assure supplier-produced Service Designs, HLDs and supporting artefacts against agreed requirements, policies, standards and architectural direction.
• Work constructively with supplier designers from an early stage to clarify intent, identify dependencies and reduce avoidable design rework.
• Apply Secure by Design principles and support continual security assurance throughout the capability lifecycle.
• Work with security specialists, risk owners and accreditors / assurance authorities to ensure infrastructure designs provide appropriate evidence for security and risk decisions.
• Assess platform integration with IAM, IDAM / IGA, PAM, authentication, federation, directory services, service identities and break-glass arrangements.
• Provide architecture guidance for container platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift and VMware Tanzu, where applicable to the solution.
• Promote repeatable and supportable infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management practices using tools such as Ansible, Terraform and controlled Git-based workflows.
• Contribute to integration, test, migration, transition and operational-readiness planning, including cross-service dependencies and acceptance evidence.
• Provide clear infrastructure and platform advice to customer stakeholders and architecture leadership within the scope delegated to the role.
• Facilitate workshops and design reviews, presenting options, risks and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.

Technologies:

• Ansible
• Architect
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Git
• IAM
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Network
• OpenShift
• Security
• Terraform
• VMware

More:

We are partnering directly with DXC Technology to hire for this senior Infrastructure / Platform Architect role within the customers System Design Team (SDT) in Farnborough, with onsite attendance five days per week. We are committed to building diverse, inclusive teams and welcome applications from all backgrounds, with reasonable adjustments available throughout the hiring process. This customer-facing architecture role focuses on governance, design assurance, cross-domain coordination and technical influence across private cloud, virtualisation, container platforms, compute, storage, networking and shared platform services. We work closely with customer stakeholders, security assurance personnel and delivery partners to help ensure designs are coherent, secure, supportable and aligned to the wider solution. We prioritise in-person collaboration while supporting flexibility where possible, and we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.

last updated 39 week of 2026