Infrastructure Designer - 11-month Contract

Infrastructure Designer (Contract)
11months +
Based in Manchester - Hybrid - 3 days per week in the office
£350 - £418 per day InsideIR35

We are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Designer to join a large-scale enterprise environment, working on the design and delivery of complex infrastructure solutions. The role focuses on translating solution architecture into detailed infrastructure designs that are delivered by third-party suppliers, while providing strong technical leadership across projects.

You will play a key role within the Infrastructure Centre of Excellence (CoE), ensuring designs are robust, compliant, cost-effective, and aligned with strategic roadmaps.

Responsibilities
* Produce detailed infrastructure design documentation based on approved solution architectures.
* Coordinate and validate accurate cost estimates for end-to-end project delivery and business cases.
* Provide technical leadership to project teams, SMEs, and third-party suppliers.
* Contribute to and maintain infrastructure solution frameworks, patterns, and standards, ensuring best value for money.
* Ensure clear root cause analysis for incidents impacting Infrastructure CoE deliverables and drive resolution.
* Work closely with third-party build teams and environment leads to ensure solutions comply with approved designs.
* Support the design and integration of new products into existing and new solutions.
* Act as a technical escalation point, convening troubleshooting teams to rapidly resolve infrastructure issues.
* Provide design input across multiple technology domains (eg Mainframe, Networks, Wintel, Databases).
* Produce and assure design patterns and infrastructure roadmaps.
* Act as a technical escalation point for production services and during the build phase of new services.

Skills & Experience
* Extensive experience with VMware platforms, infrastructure solutions, and networking and Firewall technologies.
* Proven track record leading infrastructure solution design and process improvement within an IT operational environment.
* Strong ability to deliver measurable improvements in efficiency, performance, and cost.
* Excellent communication and influencing skills, working with senior stakeholders, business partners, and external suppliers.
* High-quality technical documentation and authoring skills.

Desirable Technical Skills
* Mainframe technologies (eg CICS, Cobol, Objectstar, CA Datacom, VSAM)
* UNIX environments (AIX, Linux, Solaris)
* Wintel, Storage, and Desktop environments
* Data Centre hosting
* Cloud services and integration
* Mobile and BYOD
* Middleware and integration (eg IBM Message Broker, DataStage)

Please apply for immediate interview!

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