Infrastructure Designer

Infrastructure Designer| 6 Month Contract | (Inside IR35) | Remote (Glasgow) | Starting ASAP

Day Rate: 479

Job Description:

The Infrastructure Design team is responsible for the delivery of Infrastructure designs, their standards & design patterns and technology consultancy in the delivery of IT projects.

• Creation & development of high level and detailed infrastructure designs
• Assessment of infrastructure costs within agreed solutions
• Creation of adoption & roadmaps, reusable design patterns & standards, hardware & software Standard Operating Environments (SOE)
• Development of operational and use case models for new technologies
• Design Governance to ensure ongoing reliability, quality and adherence to architectural strategies & roadmaps.
• Consultancy to approved projects during the estimating process; manday, cost, high level design and impact analysis

Main Duties:

• The ability to work in a multi-disciplined environment
• The ability to support the rationale behind financial cost estimates for a project's given scope
• The ability to communicate to stakeholders at all levels
• Excellent written and oral skills together with the ability to listen, assimilate and then translate new ideas into solid IT designs
• Knowledge to support the design & architectural governance process, demonstrating technical experience and sound decision making skills
• The skills to support & deliver continuous improvement within the organisation's capabilities

Essential Skills & Experience:

• A broad range of design experience - the role holder will be an experienced IT professional, typically with a degree and business/ IT post-graduate professional education, with experience of influencing at a senior level.
• Experience of designing solutions in financial services environments to meet business critical needs.
• Experience and knowledge of agile development environments as well as more traditional waterfall delivery.

Technology Scope

• Operating systems; Windows Server, Red Hat Linux
• Services; TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, Active Directory
• Database; Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle
• Messaging/Collaboration; Exchange, MS Teams/Skype for Business, Sharepoint/Sharepoint Online
• Virtualisation; VMWare ESXi
• Desktop; Windows
• Cloud; Office 365, Azure, AWS

This role has been deemed Inside IR35 by the client. Applicants must hold, or be happy to apply for, a valid Basic Disclosure Scotland. Please click the link to apply.