Infrastructure Architect - Inside IR35 - Hybrid

Infastructure Architect - Inside IR35 - Hybrid

The SilverFort Infrastructure Architect is responsible for owning, designing, operating, and continuously enhancing SilverFort as an enterprise service, delivering a unified identity and access management platform. The role provides architectural leadership across the SilverFort ecosystem, ensuring the service is secure, scalable, resilient, and aligned to infrastructure and security standards.

This role acts as the primary authority on SilverFort architecture, policy design, and service integrations, working closely with infrastructure, security, network, and platform teams. The architect provides strategic direction, supports complex change and transformation initiatives, and engages with vendors and delivery teams to evolve the service.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end SilverFort platform architecture, ensuring it aligns with enterprise infrastructure, security, and identity strategies.

• Define and maintain SilverFort architectural designs, standards, and patterns, including agentless MFA and access control policy frameworks.

• Lead integration of SilverFort with Active Directory, authentication services, network infrastructure, and security platforms.

• Provide architectural oversight for new use cases, onboarding activities, and major platform enhancements.

• Act as the technical authority for complex design decisions, architectural risks, and non-standard solutions.

• Support escalated incidents and problems by providing architectural insight and root cause analysis.

• Collaborate with delivery, operations, and security teams to ensure designs are operable, resilient, and supportable.

• Engage with vendors and third-party providers to influence product direction, manage escalations, and validate architectural solutions.

• Contribute to service roadmaps, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Produce and maintain high-quality architecture artefacts, design documentation, and stakeholder-facing guidance.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Strong understanding of Access Management and IAM architecture, including PAM and multi-factor authentication concepts.

• Deep understanding of SilverFort architecture, agentless MFA design, and policy-driven access models.

• Strong Active Directory architectural knowledge, including LDAP, Kerberos, NTLM, and RADIUS authentication flows.

• Solid understanding of enterprise network architecture, including core network protocols, firewalls, and proxy services.

• Proven experience designing and supporting highly available, secure infrastructure services in large-scale environments.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose complex, cross-domain issues.

• Good understanding of ITIL-aligned service management practices, including incident, problem, and change management, with a focus on architectural governance.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience designing or integrating solutions with Azure and Microsoft Entra ID.

• Knowledge of EDR and XDR platforms and how they interact with identity, access, and infrastructure controls.

• Experience producing architecture diagrams, design documents, and decision records for both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Scripting and automation experience (for example PowerShell) and a working understanding of APIs and integration patterns.

To apply for this role please submit your CV or contact Dillon Blackburn on (phone number removed) or at (url removed).

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