Systems Architect - Cardiff, United Kingdom - Computer Futures

Computer Futures

Verified Company

Cardiff, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

I have an exciting opportunity for a Systems Architect to join a bespoke software and hardware company that will allow you to help build a full end to end solution for its customers, with all the hardware and software built in house.

This is an exciting place to work for ambitious and talented people who want to make a difference and see their ideas become a reality with excellent future career prospects and job security.

Over 20 years of experience, privately owned and a solid pipelineof brand new work, upgrades and customizations for existing and brand new customers.

You will get to see your work in action in the field, which is an interesting place full of opportunity.

This company has a some exciting new products on the horizon including drone technology which is always cool

Reporting to the Lead System Architect and working with the System Architecture which currently has 4 Architects, the role will be responsible for providing the architecture direction and expertise in several disciplines whilst supporting the team with existingand future work streams.

Due to the continual growth of products and portfolios this role is required to support and work alongside the existing team of architects to help support and grow the function across the business.

Effectively you will be requiredto undertake responsibility relating to infrastructure, network and system architecture focusing on Proof of Concept (PoC) design, low level design, documentation and implementation support where required.

The role will be primarily based in Cardiff with a flexible office/home working arrangement. Trips to the office will be around every 6/8 weeks on average.

Essential:

Excellent understanding of how largescale infrastructure

deployments and data centers function including build

out and troubleshooting

Excellent and proven experience in network architecture,

network troubleshooting and all range of network

infrastructure components (e.g. load balancers, firewalls,

network routers/switches).

Excellent and proven experience of systems engineering

relating to a range of products.

Excellent and proven experience in leading on design

decisions relating to issues with infrastructure/network

issues and problems in field.

Ability to think on their feet to assess

infrastructure/network build issues and provide solutions

and options.

Experience of working as part of a wider architecture

team and awareness of the different layers of

architecture

Ability to understand machine virtualisation and VM

hosting.

Strong experience in the ability to compose a large

number of technical documentation, reports and

diagrams.

Ability to assess effort, risk, costs and complexity for

infrastructure solutions.

Excellent communication skills with the ability to relate to

various audiences

Excellent understanding and experience of hardware

infrastructure implementation and low-level working

principles

Desirable(non-essential)

Bachelor's Degree in mathematics, Scientific, Computing

or Engineering or similar discipline and minimum 5+

years of experience in mixed software engineering and

IT projects

Understanding of large distributed, data sharing systems

deployed over large distances

Familiarity with message queuing systems, for example

rabbit, and cluster databases systems.

Experience in disaster recovery failover and hardware

Redundancy

Experience managing and deploying software and

Operating System updates/upgrades over IP.

monitoring.

Experience with Cyber-Security strategies and

Implementation

Experience in the following technologies: Dell,

Kubernetes, Hyper-V, Docker, Containerisation.

Benefits
Holiday Allowance - starting at 25 days per annum pro rata our

holiday year is Jan - Dec, then increasing to 26, 27 and 28 after

completing 3-, 5- and 10-years' service, plus the 8 Statutory Bank

Holidays

Pension Scheme

Healthcare

Income Protection/Sickness pay

Computer Futures, a trading division of SThree Partnership LLP is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy | Registered office | 1st Floor, 75 King William Street, London, EC4N 7BE, United Kingdom | Partnership Number | OC387148 Englandand Wales