Overview
The Infrastructure Architect will lead the design, development, standardisation and ongoing improvement of the company's on-premises infrastructure. This role focuses on creating a secure, reliable, scalable environment across networking, compute and storage platforms and virtualisation, as well as other core infrastructure services. The successful candidate will act as a technical authority, working closely with the Platform Operations team and other business areas to ensure the infrastructure meets current and future organisational needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the planning and implementation of on-prem infrastructure modernisation initiatives, including networking, virtualisation, and core compute/storage platforms.
- Define and maintain the on-prem infrastructure architecture, ensuring alignment with business, performance and security requirements, including service availability, recovery, restoration and disaster recovery.
- Provide guidance on best-practice architecture, capacity management, and resilience.
- Design and oversee on-prem network topology, ensuring performance, availability, scalability, and strong security controls.
- Support the implementation and management of network authentication mechanisms including certificate-based authentication, 802.1X, RADIUS, and secure wired/wireless access.
- Design firewall/gateway strategy, including segmentation, policies, and secure access, with emphasis on security best practices.
- Act as a SME for key network technologies, including (desirable) firewalls, switching, and related equipment.
- Help design the on-prem computing and storage platforms, including hardware standards for multiple workload requirements, including VDI and Remote Session services, running CAD and engineering applications.
- Lead the design, improvement, and administration of virtualisation platforms, especially VMware vSphere and its enterprise features (e.g., DRS, vMotion, distributed switching).
- Ensure infrastructure is fully documented, monitored, and governed by appropriate standards and processes, such as Change Management.
- Work with other IT Ops members to implement SLA and metrics across the infra stack.
- Support troubleshooting of networking, computing and virtualisation issues.
- Collaborate with security teams on network hardening, monitoring, and incident response.
- Provide input on technology roadmaps and contribute to long-term IT strategy.
- Mentor and support technical staff on networking and virtualisation best practices.
Requirements
Essential
- Expertise in designing and managing on-prem infrastructure environments, including hardware.
- Strong hands-on experience with enterprise networking, including routing, switching, segmentation, and network security.
- Experience implementing certificate-based authentication, RADIUS, 802.1X, NAC, and related security protocols.
- Extensive experience virtualisation platforms (including VMware vSphere).
- Strong understanding of firewalls, VPNs, and secure network architecture.
Desirable
- CompTIA Network+ or Cisco CCNA certifications
- VMware Certified Professional - Data Centre Virtualization
Personal Attributes
- Good communication skills and the ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Detail-oriented with a focus on solution quality, performance, and maintainability.
- Proactive mindset with the ability to work independently and drive improvements.
**H&MV Engineering is an equal opportunity employer**
