Infrastructure Engineering Design Lead

On-site in London·Added today (last checked 30 Oct)

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Our summary

Salary: £550 - £700 a day
Work mode: On-site, London
Contract: Contract role, inside IR35
Experience: Senior level
Closing date: Apply by Sunday 29 November

Skills

Requirements

What we're looking for

* Significant experience designing enterprise infrastructure solutions, including producing and reviewing high-level and low-level designs
* A track record translating business requirements into infrastructure designs for mission-critical, business-critical services
* Technical leadership that brings clarity and guidance across infrastructure, platform and hosting domains
* Understanding of NIST and CIS security controls
* Demonstrable experience across several areas such as:
- VMware Cloud Foundation
- Enterprise server platforms and Windows Server
- Linux (e.g., RHEL, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu or similar)
- Enterprise storage (e.g., NetApp or Dell PowerStore)
- Backup and recovery (e.g., Veeam, Cohesity or NetBackup)
- Infrastructure monitoring and observability tools
- Automation using Ansible, PowerShell or Bash
- Core networking concepts (routing, switching and firewalls)
* Strong system design fundamentals including HA, DR, fault tolerance, scaling, capacity planning, security by design, resilience engineering and service recoverability

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

Rate: £700, Inside IR35

Visa & relocation

Clearance: DV required

The role

Infrastructure Engineering Design Lead
Location: London

Location: London

If you enjoy turning complex infrastructure challenges into clear, secure and supportable designs, this role is built for you. As an Infrastructure Engineering Design Lead, you'll lead a team of engineers delivering enterprise infrastructure services that keep critical capabilities running reliably-now and into the future.

What you'll do

* Lead the design of infrastructure solutions end-to-end, producing and reviewing both high-level and low-level designs
* Define infrastructure architectures that deliver availability, scalability, resilience, security and long-term supportability
* Drive infrastructure lifecycle planning, including technology refresh, capacity growth and platform evolution
* Make automation, observability and operational efficiency core to how solutions are designed
* Carry out technical assurance and design governance, reviewing designs from engineers, suppliers and third parties
* Ensure operational support needs are built into solutions from the outset
* Partner with solution architects and security architects to create integrated end-to-end outcomes
* Lead technical investigations, proof of concepts and technology evaluations
* Establish infrastructure design principles, standards, blueprints and reference architectures

How you'll work

Duration: 6 months

Additional information

* Lead with behaviours: customer-first thinking, challenging the status quo, delivering with integrity, communicating clearly and collaborating across teams
* Compliance with all BT policies is mandatory

Ready to make a real impact on infrastructure that matters? Apply now to join a team where your technical leadership is valued-and your ideas can shape what comes next.

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Salary: £550 - £700 per day