Infrastruture Architect

Methods Business and Digital Technology Limited

Methods is a £100M+ IT Services Consultancy who has partnered with a range of central government departments and agencies to transform the way the public sector operates in the UK. Established over 30 years ago and UK-based, we apply our skills in transformation, delivery, and collaboration from across the Methods Group, to create end-to-end business and technical solutions that are people-centred, safe, and designed for the future.

Our human touch sets us apart from other consultancies, system integrators and software houses - with people, technology, and data at the heart of who we are, we believe in creating value and sustainability through everything we do for our clients, staff, communities, and the planet.

We support our clients in the success of their projects while working collaboratively to share skill sets and solve problems. At Methods we have fun while working hard; we are not afraid of making mistakes and learning from them.

Predominantly focused on the public-sector, Methods is now building a significant private sector client portfolio.

Methods was acquired by the Alten Group in early 2022.
Requirements

We are seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure Architect to lead the assessment of a complex enterprise technology environment within the defence industry. You will take an application-centric view of the supporting infrastructure, bringing together specialist teams to understand the current estate, its dependencies and the causes of performance and user-experience issues.

The role requires broad infrastructure knowledge, strong technical leadership and the ability to turn complex evidence into clear findings, practical recommendations and a prioritised improvement roadmap.

Key responsibilities

• Lead mobilisation, discovery planning and technical governance.
• Coordinate specialists across application, compute, virtualisation, storage, database, network, security and service operations.
• Document the current estate, architecture, dependencies and critical data flows.
• Establish an end-to-end performance baseline and lead evidence-based investigation of service issues.
• Facilitate technical workshops and align internal teams, partners and suppliers around agreed findings.
• Produce clear architecture outputs, recommendations and a prioritised improvement roadmap.
• Creation of all design artifacts, used through the project lifecycle
• Technical Owner for the project transformation and remediation phases

Skills and experience

• Proven experience as a Senior or Lead Infrastructure Architect in a complex enterprise environment.
• Broad knowledge of compute, VMware, physical infrastructure, storage, databases, networks, firewalls and security services.
• Strong experience of infrastructure discovery, current-state architecture and dependency mapping.
• Practical understanding of performance analysis, monitoring, capacity, availability, backup and disaster recovery.
• Ability to lead technical specialists and coordinate multiple infrastructure workstreams.
• Strong problem-solving, root-cause analysis and evidence-based decision-making skills.
• Creation of all design artifacts, used through the project lifecycle
• SC Clearence

Benefits

By joining us you can expect:

• Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
• Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
• Strong, inspiring and thought-provoking leadership
• A supportive and collaborative environment.

As well as this, we offer:

• Development access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme and training
• Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme
• Social - Breakfast Tuesdays, Thirsty Thursdays and Pizza on the last Thursday of each month as well as commitment to charitable causes
• Time off 25 days a year
• Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution
• Discretionary Company Bonus based on company and individual performance
• Life Assurance of 4 times base salary
• Private Medical Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
• Worldwide Travel Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)