Storage & Infrastructure Architect — Enterprise Multi-Vendor Estate

London, United Kingdom | Posted on 06/17/2026

• Salary Inside IR35 — rate TBC on application
• Work Experience 5+ years
• City London
• State/Province City of London
• Country United Kingdom
• Zip/Postal Code London

Job Description

Contract / Day-rate: Inside IR35 — rate TBC on application

Right to work: UK PR /British Citizen / ILR only — sponsorship not available

Experience: 8–10+ yearsminimum

ABOUT THE ROLE

A leading enterpriseinfrastructure transformation programme is hiring a hands-on Storage &Infrastructure Architect to own the design, implementation and migration of amulti-vendor storage and backup estate. The role spans current-stateconsolidation, target-state architecture, and the data-migration runway behindit.

You will own technicalarchitecture end-to-end (HLD, LLD, SOPs), engage vendors to shape strategyagainst the architecture roadmap, and partner with Windows, Networks, Securityand Operations teams to build the services that sit on top.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and implement: Networks/ Firewalls / Service design / DR / Automation / Monitoring / Security /Auditing.
• Prepare HLD, LLD and SOPs. RunPOCs and validate technology against business requirements.
• Gather current productionperformance data, identify gaps, design out remediation in the new solution.
• Define strategy and coordinateacross stakeholders and vendors.
• Tune systems for highperformance against business demand.
• Consolidate technologies inline with the architecture roadmap.
• Engage with Windows, Networks,Security and Operations teams to build services and capabilities.

Requirements

TECHNICAL STACK

Storage & Backup (must havehands-on with the majority):

• Object storage: Cloudian,NetApp FAS, Dell EMC ECS

Cloud:

• AWS and Azure

Switching / SAN fabric:

• Cisco MDS Director Class series
• Brocade switches and DCXDirectors

Migration tooling:

• Native tools and Datadobi

NICE TO HAVE

• UK security clearance (SC /NPPV3 / DV) already in place
• Experience operating inregulated financial services
• Vendor accreditations acrossDell EMC, NetApp, Cisco, Brocade
• Experience in service-designand ITIL-aligned operations transition

WHAT YOU BRING

• 8–10+ years across enterprisestorage architecture and infrastructure engineering, with at least one fulllarge-scale migration delivered end-to-end.
• Track record of consolidatingheterogeneous storage estates against a target architecture.
• Strong stakeholder and vendormanagement.
• Ability to work onsite in theUK as required and to hold or obtain UK security clearance.

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