Infrastructure Architect

Experience Level 12-15+ years in banking infrastructure and architecture Key Responsibilities Architecture and Design  Define the target infrastructure architecture across on-premise data centres and Azure, including compute, storage, network, Kubernetes/OpenShift, middleware and database hosting.  Design landing zones and platform patterns for the core banking system, API platform, Kafka, observability and integration workloads.  Define high availability, active-active and active-passive topologies, backup and disaster recovery patterns with RTO and RPO aligned to service criticality.  Produce reference architectures, high-level and low-level designs and architecture decision records. Qualifications And Experience  Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.  12-15+ years in infrastructure engineering and architecture, with significant time in banking.  Demonstrated architecture leadership in a large core banking transformation.  Track record of designing HA and DR for tier-1 banking systems.  Experience working with core banking vendors and global system integrators. Technical Skills  Hybrid cloud architecture, with Azure strongly preferred.  VMware virtualisation, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Linux and enterprise storage (SAN/NAS, object storage).  Oracle database infrastructure including RAC, Data Guard and Exadata.  Data centre and cloud networking, load balancing and security zoning.  Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), GitOps and CI/CD.  Observability and capacity management tooling.  Understanding of BIAN-aligned, API-led and event-driven architectures. Preferred Certifications  TOGAF 9 or 10.  Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.  Red Hat OpenShift or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).  Oracle Exadata or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure certification.

Architecture and Design: Define the target infrastructure architecture across on-premise data centres and Azure, including compute, storage, network, Kubernetes/OpenShift, middleware and database hosting. Design landing zones and platform patterns for the core banking system, API platform, Kafka, observability and integration workloads. Define high availability, active-active and active-passive topologies, backup and disaster recovery patterns with RTO and RPO aligned to service criticality. Produce reference architectures, high-level and low-level designs and architecture decision records.