Datacenter Architect

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We are Hiring Datacenter Architecting - Unix Stack position in London-hybrid

Location: London-hybrid

Rates as per market min rate

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Role: Datacenter Architecting - Unix Stack

Work from Customer Location –London

The role provides L2 architectural ownership, supporting solution design, resilience, capacity, and operational stability under the guidance of senior architects.

Data Centre Architecture & Design

• Design and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available data centre infrastructure architectures.
• Create low‐level and high‐level designs (LLD/HLD) for on‐prem and hybrid DC environments.
• Support architecture decisions for server, storage, network, backup, and virtualisation platforms.
• Ensure designs comply with enterprise standards, security baselines, and regulatory requirements.

Infrastructure Platforms Ownership

• Provide L2 architectural support for:
• Compute (Bare metal, x86 platforms)
• Virtualisation (VMware / Hyper‐V)
• Storage (SAN/NAS, backup & replication)
• Data centre networking (core, aggregation, access layers)
• Work closely with operations teams to ensure design‐to‐run alignment.

Reliability, Capacity & Resilience

• Design DC architectures for high availability, redundancy, DR, and fault tolerance.
• Support capacity planning, performance optimisation, and lifecycle management.
• Participate in failure analysis, RCA reviews, and corrective architecture enhancements.
• Ensure infrastructure designs minimise single points of failure.

Operational & Governance Support

• Act as L2 escalation point for complex DC infrastructure issues.
• Support change reviews, impact assessments, and risk analysis.
• Ensure alignment with ITIL processes for Incident, Problem, and Change Management.
• Support audits and compliance assessments for data centre services. Hybrid & Cloud Alignment
• Support integration of on‐prem DC with private cloud and public cloud landing zones.
• Assist in hybrid architecture patterns, workload placement, and migration readiness.
• Ensure data centre designs align with future cloud extensibility.