Infrastructure Architect
Job Description
IntroductionSaab UK is part of Scandinavia's largest defence company, bringing together the best of Swedish and British innovation. Saab offers world-leading solutions and services in defence, aviation, space, and civil security to keep people and society safe. Our UK presence has been growing at pace, meaning we can offer a wide range of opportunities for personal fulfilment and career growth.
We currently employ over 600 people across eight sites in the UK, and our specialisations include software engineering, underwater robotics, radars, AI, and armed forces training.The Role:This is a 12 month fixed term contract position and can be based remotely anywhere in the UK.Within Saab UK, Public Safety Solutions (PSS) develops advanced software applications and mission critical solutions used by Police, Fire & Rescue, Airports and other public safety organisations. Our solutions support real-time operational environments where resilience, availability and security are essential.As part of our continued growth and transformation towards providing managed services, we are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Architect to help shape, design and implement scalable and resilient hosting platforms for mission critical software systems and aid decision making on approach (e.g. public cloud vs private cloud) and other key design choices.This is a hands-on technical role suited to someone who combines strong architecture capability with practical delivery experience across cloud/on-premise infrastructure, automation, networking, security and operational readiness.Key Responsibilities:Design and implement secure, scalable and resilient cloud-hosted managed service platformsDefine infrastructure architecture for mission critical applications, including:Cloud hosting (public or private cloud)NetworkingResilience and disaster recoveryHigh availabilityPerformance and scalabilitySecurity and operational monitoringAutomated deployment using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)Work closely with software engineering and DevOps teams to enable cloud-native deployment modelsDevelop and improve infrastructure-as-code and automation capabilitiesSupport major bids and customer engagements with infrastructure and hosting architecture expertiseProduce high and low-level technical designs and supporting documentationDefine operational readiness requirements for managed service environmentsSupport platform standardisation, governance and technical assurance activitiesWork with customers and third-party suppliers to integrate infrastructure into existing enterprise environmentsContribute to cloud migration, modernisation and platform transformation initiativesProvide technical leadership and mentoring across infrastructure and platform engineering domainsSupport operational teams with third-line technical expertise where requiredQualifications and Skills:Proven experience as an Infrastructure Architect, Cloud Architect or Platform Architect in complex enterprise environmentsStrong hands-on experience designing and implementing cloud-hosted platforms and managed servicesDemonstrable experience with cloud hosting (Microsoft Azure, AWS cloud environments or private cloud)Strong understanding of:Infrastructure architectureCloud networkingSecurity and identityDisaster recoveryResilience engineeringPerformance optimisationOperational support modelsExperience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tooling such as:TerraformAnsiblePackerPowerShellCI/CD pipelinesExperience working with Kubernetes, containers and modern platform technologiesStrong knowledge of networking concepts including:FirewallsVPNsLoad balancingDNSRoutingSD-WANExperience working within highly available or mission critical systems environmentsAbility to work across both strategic architecture and practical technical deliveryStrong stakeholder management and communication skillsComfortable working in Agile and collaborative engineering environmentsKnowledge and experience designing and implementing highly-available voice solutionPreferrable experience with UK Emergency Services, Telephony & Airwave (Radio) connectivity / infrastructureExperience delivering managed services or SaaS platformsExperience within public safety, defence, government or other highly regulated industriesVMware and hybrid infrastructure experienceBy submitting an application to Saab UK you consent to undertaking workforce screening activities that may include but are not limited to: Baseline Personnel Security checks, National Security Vetting, reference checks, verification of working rights and in all circumstances preferred candidates will be placed through a security interview.TPBN1_UKTJ