Infrastructure Architect
Posted Today by Harvey Nash
Negotiable
Outside
Undetermined
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Infrastructure Architect role in London involves leading the design and evolution of enterprise infrastructure architecture, focusing on migrating legacy data centers to Microsoft Azure. The position requires collaboration with various stakeholders to deliver secure and cost-effective solutions aligned with the organization's operating model. The role is part of a growing Strategy & Architecture team and emphasizes hands-on experience in major infrastructure transformation projects.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design, governance, and evolution of enterprise infrastructure architecture.
- Migrate legacy data center environments to Microsoft Azure.
- Build secure, scalable, and separation-ready cloud platforms.
- Play a key role in major transformation programmes, including cloud migration and IT separation initiatives.
- Work closely with business and IT stakeholders, infrastructure teams, and system integrators.
- Provide architectural guidance and oversight across infrastructure, cloud, and platform initiatives.
- Help shape the infrastructure strategy and roadmap towards a modern, cloud-first environment.
- Support mergers, acquisitions, business separations, or divestments from an infrastructure architecture perspective.
Key Skills:
- Solid experience as an Infrastructure Architect in large, complex global organisations.
- Hands-on experience with major infrastructure transformation projects, including data center and cloud migrations.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure and experience designing enterprise-scale cloud platforms.
- Broad infrastructure expertise across compute, storage, networking, identity, and security.
- Experience supporting ERP transformations and migrations to cloud-based solutions.
- Understanding of plant infrastructure and operational technology (OT) integration.
- Good understanding of modern cloud security practices, including Entra ID and Zero Trust principles.
- Experience working in manufacturing or industrial environments.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: City Of London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Infrastructure Architect – London Outside IR35 – Rates up to £675 London based 2-3 days per week As an Infrastructure Architect, you will join a growing Strategy & Architecture team, leading the design, governance, and evolution of enterprise infrastructure architecture. The role focuses on migrating legacy data centre environments to Microsoft Azure and building secure, scalable, and separation-ready cloud platforms. You will play a key role in major transformation programmes, including cloud migration and IT separation initiatives, working closely with business and IT stakeholders, infrastructure teams, and system integrators to deliver secure, resilient, and cost-effective solutions aligned with the organisation’s target operating model.
Key skills and responsibilities, • Solid experience working as an Infrastructure Architect in large, complex global organisations • Hands-on experience delivering major infrastructure transformation projects, including data centre and cloud migrations • Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure, with experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale cloud platforms and landing zones • Broad infrastructure expertise across compute, storage, networking, identity, and security • Experience supporting ERP transformations and migrations to cloud-based solutions such as SAP RISE and SaaS platforms • Experience working in manufacturing or industrial environments, with an understanding of plant infrastructure and operational technology (OT) integration • Good understanding of modern cloud security practices, including Entra ID, Zero Trust principles, and network segmentation • Provide architectural guidance and oversight across infrastructure, cloud, and platform initiatives, working closely with internal teams and external delivery partners. • Help shape the infrastructure strategy and roadmap, supporting the move towards a modern, cloud-first environment. • Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, business separations, or divestments from an infrastructure architecture perspective Interested? Please submit your updated CV to Dean Sadler-Parkes at Harvey Nash for immediate consideration.