Job Description
Management Level
E
Equinitiis global provider of technology-enabled services. We help businesses operate more effectively and connect people with their financial future. Our people and platforms connect businesses with markets, engage customers with their investments and allow organisations to grow and transform.
Equinitiis a company built with strong values at the very core of our offering. Dealing with some of the most successful companies and government agencies in the UK, excellence, integrity, professionalism, partnership, commercial and innovation are therefore at the heart of everything we do. We employ c.5000 people in Europe, India and the US and the average length of service of our employees is 12 years.
Role summary:
This role requires a talented and detail oriented Technical Infrastructure Architect (TA) who has experience in designing complex infrastructure (servers, networks, storage, cloud) and in assessment and deployment of COTS applications into a complex environment.
Working closely with IT colleagues on varying project sizes, and in a time sensitive environment, the TA should be keen to utilise their technical skills and experience to design robust and innovative implementation plans to deploy the applications in-scope, whilst remaining within the Group IT strategy.
The role may require some travel.
Core Duties/Responsibilities:
Maintaining an awareness of the wider Equiniti environment by creating and communicating standards, governance processes, approved architecture models, systems and technologies deployed and corporate and IT strategies.
• Acting as a key resource in the project lifecycle, from driving the initiation and infrastructure design, to overseeing implementation.
• Producing high level and detailed technical designs and documentation for complex technical solutions. Mapping requirements onto practical, maintainable solutions, taking into account cost, quality and complexity.
• Creating and maintaining a repository for infrastructure artefacts covering the infrastructure architecture continuum.
• Participate in Architecture design reviews and other technical governance forums across the organisation representing the infrastructure team across multiple projects.
• Assisting in defining and maintaining architectural, security and technical standards, reflecting evolving technology and emerging best practice.
• Providing ongoing mentoring to others in IT, including support teams.
Skills, Knowledge & Experience:
• Sound understanding of broader Data Centre technologies (Server, Storage, Networks, Server Virtualisation etc.)
• Experience of designing and deploying applications for Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)
• Design and deliver multi-tiered application infrastructure, including designing changes to existing services.
• Understand and apply IT security best practice, principles and accreditations (ISO27001) to create high level and low-level design elements as per project requirements.
• Understand complex networking topologies and technologies.
• Strong communicator, capable of understanding business requirements and translating them into IT approaches.
• Create relevant build and design standards which promote re-use and also shorten the delivery lifecycle of infrastructure assets. Participate in architecture design reviews and provide appropriate architecture governance.
• Track record of successfully achieving project deadlines, budgets and quality standard.
• Industry certification and knowledge of architecture and delivery frameworks a distinct advantage (MCSE, CCNA, TOGAF, Prince2).
Technical Ability:
In depth experience of designing, securing, implementing and supporting enterprise solutions in a primarily Microsoft Windows environment, utilising:
• Microsoft Active Directory spanning multiple forests and sites.
• Core Microsoft technologies e.g. SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint.
• Deployment, configuration management and monitoring systems, such as Microsoft System Centre and New Relic
• Virtualisation of servers & desktops utilising VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager.
• High availability and load balancing including Microsoft clustering and hardware load balancers.
E
Equinitiis global provider of technology-enabled services. We help businesses operate more effectively and connect people with their financial future. Our people and platforms connect businesses with markets, engage customers with their investments and allow organisations to grow and transform.
Equinitiis a company built with strong values at the very core of our offering. Dealing with some of the most successful companies and government agencies in the UK, excellence, integrity, professionalism, partnership, commercial and innovation are therefore at the heart of everything we do. We employ c.5000 people in Europe, India and the US and the average length of service of our employees is 12 years.
Role summary:
This role requires a talented and detail oriented Technical Infrastructure Architect (TA) who has experience in designing complex infrastructure (servers, networks, storage, cloud) and in assessment and deployment of COTS applications into a complex environment.
Working closely with IT colleagues on varying project sizes, and in a time sensitive environment, the TA should be keen to utilise their technical skills and experience to design robust and innovative implementation plans to deploy the applications in-scope, whilst remaining within the Group IT strategy.
The role may require some travel.
Core Duties/Responsibilities:
Maintaining an awareness of the wider Equiniti environment by creating and communicating standards, governance processes, approved architecture models, systems and technologies deployed and corporate and IT strategies.
• Acting as a key resource in the project lifecycle, from driving the initiation and infrastructure design, to overseeing implementation.
• Producing high level and detailed technical designs and documentation for complex technical solutions. Mapping requirements onto practical, maintainable solutions, taking into account cost, quality and complexity.
• Creating and maintaining a repository for infrastructure artefacts covering the infrastructure architecture continuum.
• Participate in Architecture design reviews and other technical governance forums across the organisation representing the infrastructure team across multiple projects.
• Assisting in defining and maintaining architectural, security and technical standards, reflecting evolving technology and emerging best practice.
• Providing ongoing mentoring to others in IT, including support teams.
Skills, Knowledge & Experience:
• Sound understanding of broader Data Centre technologies (Server, Storage, Networks, Server Virtualisation etc.)
• Experience of designing and deploying applications for Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)
• Design and deliver multi-tiered application infrastructure, including designing changes to existing services.
• Understand and apply IT security best practice, principles and accreditations (ISO27001) to create high level and low-level design elements as per project requirements.
• Understand complex networking topologies and technologies.
• Strong communicator, capable of understanding business requirements and translating them into IT approaches.
• Create relevant build and design standards which promote re-use and also shorten the delivery lifecycle of infrastructure assets. Participate in architecture design reviews and provide appropriate architecture governance.
• Track record of successfully achieving project deadlines, budgets and quality standard.
• Industry certification and knowledge of architecture and delivery frameworks a distinct advantage (MCSE, CCNA, TOGAF, Prince2).
Technical Ability:
In depth experience of designing, securing, implementing and supporting enterprise solutions in a primarily Microsoft Windows environment, utilising:
• Microsoft Active Directory spanning multiple forests and sites.
• Core Microsoft technologies e.g. SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint.
• Deployment, configuration management and monitoring systems, such as Microsoft System Centre and New Relic
• Virtualisation of servers & desktops utilising VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager.
• High availability and load balancing including Microsoft clustering and hardware load balancers.
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