Architect
Your new company
Our Client is a government agency.
Your new role We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Solutions Designer/Architect with deep expertise in enterprise hardware infrastructure to support a hospital environment. The role will focus on assessing, designing, and recommending solutions for the replacement or modernisation of storage arrays (SAN) and virtualisation clusters, ensuring high availability, performance, and compliance with healthcare standards.This is a hands‑on design role requiring strong technical depth at the hardware layer, with the ability to evaluate whether existing platforms should be replaced like‑for‑like or transitioned to newer technologies.
Key Responsibilities
* Assess current hospital infrastructure, including storage arrays (SAN), compute hardware, and virtualisation clusters.
* Lead infrastructure design activities to determine optimal replacement or modernisation strategies (like‑for‑like vs new technology).
* Produce high‑level and low‑level infrastructure designs, including architecture diagrams, BOMs, and technical documentation.
* Design resilient, secure, and scalable infrastructure solutions aligned with hospital operational and clinical requirements.
* Evaluate vendor solutions and technologies (e.g. storage platforms, hyperconverged infrastructure, server hardware).
* Work closely with IT operations, vendors, and clinical stakeholders to validate requirements and constraints.
* Ensure designs meet availability, performance, security, and compliance standards required in healthcare environments.
* Provide technical guidance during implementation, migration, and cutover phases as required.
* Identify risks, dependencies, and constraints related to infrastructure change in a live hospital environment.
Required Skills & Experience
* Strong background as an Infrastructure Architect / Solutions Designer with a hardware-first focus.
* Proven expertise in enterprise storage technologies (SAN/NAS, controllers, replication, backup integration).
* Deep experience with virtualisation platforms (e.g. VMware vSphere, Hyper‑V, or equivalent).
* Solid understanding of server hardware, data centre architecture, and clustering technologies.
* Experience designing infrastructure in mission‑critical environments (healthcare, government, or similar).
* Strong capability in technology evaluation and options analysis (current state vs future state).
* Excellent technical documentation and design skills.
* Ability to communicate complex infrastructure concepts to both technical and non‑technical stakeholder
What you'll get in return
3-6 months contract with possible extension
What you need to do now
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