Senior Infrastructure Architect

at  Transport for London

Organisation - Customers, Communication and Technology
Job - Networks
Position Type - Full Time
Salary: £65,000-£77,000 (Inclusive of a 5% Non-Pensionable Allowance) dependent on skills, knowledge & experience
Band: 3
Location: North Greenwich & Remote
TfL operate a Hybrid Working policy with a maximum of 50% of time working from home a month, averaging 2-3 days a week in the office.
Contract Type: TfL Permanent Contract
UK Sponsorship available, although candidates are responsible for their own application fees.

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

We are looking for someone with expert knowledge across of at least 3 of the following infrastructure technologies:

• Virtualisation platforms (e.g. Hyper-V, VMware)
• Hyper Converged Infrastructure and Virtual Storage Attached Networking
• Cloud platforms, including their features and capabilities with providers such as Azure and AWS
• Networking and connectivity (e.g. TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, proxies, load balancing)
• Enterprise Operating Systems and Databases (e.g. Windows Server, RedHat Enterprise Linux, Oracle DBEE, SQL Server)
• It would be advantageous that you can also demonstrate knowledge of the following:
• Enterprise Security (e.g. IDS/IPS, Encryption, PKI)
• Microsoft 365 platforms, concepts and architecture including: Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, EntraID
• Additional network technologies (e.g. firewalls, switching and routing) and network architecture
• Managing contractual issues in a project environment
• Project management tools and techniques
• Certification in an Enterprise Architecture Framework such as TOGAF
• The ideal candidate would also be educated to degree level or possess relevant professional experience.

IN ADDITION TO BEING SKILLED IN

• Strong infrastructure architecture skills in architecting technology components across software, infrastructure and networks.
• Ability to take a loose set of requirements and build a high-level architecture using common standards. Refining the architecture as more information is discovered, decisions identified, and choices are made.
• Proven ability to analyse complex components, identify decision points, draw conclusions and produce design artefacts.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with people within a broad group of stakeholders including project managers, business analysts, developers, engineers and testers.
• Experience of designing and delivering systems using industry standard frameworks and open standards.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Delivery focused with the ability to effectively prioritise tasks in a high-pressure environment to drive activities forward and meet demanding deadlines.

You’ll be responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of specific infrastructure products – from conceptualisation and business case development, right the way through to shaping achievable strategies and roadmaps.
You’ll be supported by the Project Manager, Business Analyst, Development Solution Architecture and Test Teams to explore high and low-level designs, before seeing your infrastructure successfully deployed and put into operation. You will also work in partnership with third-party suppliers, seeing to it that their proposed solutions meet business and technical requirements.