Solution Architect

Solution Architect Location: Remote with occasional travel to London Day Rate: £750 - £800 Per Day Inside IR35 I am working with a longstanding client who are one of the country's leading and most well-respected IT Solutions and Services providers. They have a fantastic track record in delivering large scale technology and service solutions for both enterprise level private sector and public sector organisations. They are now looking for a Storage Solution Architect to join their team on a three - six month contract to support the delivery of a large and business critical strategic programme of work that is focused on the transformation and modernisation of their customer's on-premises environment. The successful candidate will be creating High Level Designs, roadmaps, reference architecture and providing support to the platform engineering teams. Skills & Experience Required Architecture Experience Experience in a Solution Architect role delivering projects and technical solutions Experience with enterprise strategies covering capacity planning, performance optimisation, data lifecycle management, tiering and storage governance. Experience operating within mature architecture governance functions. Experience working within global and highly regulated organisations. Financial Services experience is desirable but not essential. Technical Expertise Technical expertise in Nutanix technologies including AHV, Prism Central, lifecycle management, automation, resilience and disaster recovery. Technical expertise in Dell enterprise storage platforms, including PowerStore, PowerScale, PowerMax, ECS and associated storage networking technologies. Strong knowledge of enterprise compute platforms including x86 server infrastructure, hyperconverged infrastructure, virtualisation, hardware lifecycle management and workload placement strategies. Knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift and container platform architectures, including Kubernetes, container orchestration, platform operations, workload placement, application hosting, infrastructure integration, resilience, observability and hybrid cloud deployment models. Experience with backup, recovery, cyber resilience and business continuity strategies, including immutable storage, replication, ransomware recovery and disaster recovery architectures. Experience working with Rubrik is an advantage. Strong understanding of infrastructure automation, orchestration and management tooling, including APIs, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management and platform observability. Knowledge of hybrid cloud integration and workload mobility across on-premises and public cloud environments. Experience designing highly available and resilient infrastructure architectures, including fault domain design, operational support models and recovery objectives. Strong understanding of infrastructure security principles including segmentation, encryption, privileged access controls, vulnerability management and secure-by-design architecture practices. Leadership & Influence Strong stakeholder management and communication skills. Ability to drive consensus across diverse stakeholder groups. Qualifications/Certifications Professional or academic qualifications in a technology-related discipline Enterprise Architecture certification (e.g. TOGAF®, Open CA, BCS Enterprise & Solution Architecture, or equivalent). Cloud, Security, Architecture, or Microsoft certifications ECS Recruitment Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy