Infrastructure Designer

Position: Infrastructure Designer - 11-month Contract
Location: City

Infrastructure Designer (Contract)
11+ months
Based in Manchester - Hybrid - 3 days per week in the office
350 - 418 per day InsideIR
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We are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Designer to join a large-scale enterprise environment, working on the design and delivery of complex infrastructure solutions. The role focuses on translating solution architecture into detailed infrastructure designs that are delivered by third-party suppliers, while providing strong technical leadership across projects.

You will play a key role within the Infrastructure Centre of Excellence (CoE), ensuring designs are robust, compliant, cost-effective, and aligned with strategic roadmaps.

Responsibilities
Produce detailed infrastructure design documentation based on approved solution
architectures.
Coordinate and validate accurate cost estimates for end-to-end project delivery and
business cases.
Provide technical leadership to project teams, SMEs, and third-party suppliers.
Contribute to and maintain infrastructure solution frameworks, patterns, and
standards, ensuring best value for money.
Ensure clear root cause analysis for incidents impacting Infrastructure CoE
deliverables and drive resolution.
Work closely with third-party build teams and environment leads to ensure solutions
comply with approved designs.
Support the design and integration of new products into existing and new solutions.
Act as a technical escalation point, convening troubleshooting teams to rapidly
resolve infrastructure issues.
Provide design input across multiple technology domains (e.g. Mainframe, Networks,
Wintel, Databases).
Produce and assure design patterns and infrastructure roadmaps.
Act as a technical escalation point for production services and during the build
phase of new services.

Skills & Experience
Extensive experience with VMware platforms, infrastructure solutions, and networking
and firewall technologies.
Proven track record leading infrastructure solution design and process improvement
within an IT operational environment.
Strong ability to deliver measurable improvements in efficiency, performance, and
cost.
Excellent communication and influencing skills, working with senior stakeholders,
business partners, and external suppliers.
High-quality technical documentation and authoring skills.

Desirable Technical Skills
Mainframe technologies (e.g. CICS, COBOL, Object star, CA Datacom, VSAM)
UNIX environments (AIX, Linux, Solaris)
Wintel, Storage, and Desktop environments
Data Centre hosting
Cloud services and integration
Mobile and BYOD
Middleware and integration (e.g. IBM Message Broker, Data Stage)

Please apply for immediate interview!

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