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About the Role

The Infrastructure / Platform Architect is a senior, customer-facing role within the customer's multidisciplinary System Design Team (SDT). The role contributes infrastructure and platform expertise across private cloud, virtualisation, container platforms, compute, storage, networking and shared platform services, working closely with customer stakeholders, security assurance personnel and delivery partners to ensure designs are coherent, secure, supportable and aligned to the wider solution. The emphasis is on architecture governance, design assurance, cross-domain coordination, and technical influence.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the development and maintenance of the infrastructure and platform viewpoints within the end-to-end Solution Architecture.
Provide architecture guidance across VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), NSX, compute, storage, backup, recovery, networking, management and shared platform services.
Review and assure supplier-produced Service Designs, HLDs and supporting artefacts against agreed requirements, policies, standards and architectural direction.
Work constructively with supplier designers from an early stage to clarify intent, identify dependencies and reduce avoidable design rework.
Apply Secure by Design principles and support continual security assurance throughout the capability lifecycle.
Work with security specialists, risk owners and accreditors / assurance authorities to ensure infrastructure designs provide appropriate evidence for security and risk decisions.
Assess platform integration with IAM, IDAM / IGA, PAM, authentication, federation, directory services, service identities and break-glass arrangements.
Provide architecture guidance for container platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift and VMware Tanzu, where applicable to the solution.
Promote repeatable and supportable infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management practices using tools such as Ansible, Terraform and controlled Git-based workflows.
Contribute to integration, test, migration, transition and operational-readiness planning, including cross-service dependencies and acceptance evidence.
Provide clear infrastructure and platform advice to customer stakeholders and architecture leadership within the scope delegated to the role.
Facilitate workshops and design reviews, presenting options, risks and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.

Requirements

Substantial IT infrastructure experience, including significant experience in infrastructure, platform or solution architecture roles.
Experience generating, reviewing and assuring Service Designs and HLDs in complex, multi-supplier or regulated environments.
Credible customer-facing experience, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders, architects and engineering teams.
Eligible to meet UK Government and contractual personnel security requirements, including applicable residency requirements.
Right to work in the United Kingdom.
Some roles may also be subject to nationality requirements where these are necessary to meet UK Government or contractual security obligations.

Skills

Enterprise infrastructure architecture across compute, storage, network, backup, recovery, virtualisation, platform management and observability.
VMware VCF and NSX knowledge, including platform lifecycle, resilience, management and workload considerations.
Kubernetes and container platforms, such as OpenShift or VMware Tanzu.
Infrastructure automation and configuration management, including tools such as Ansible and Terraform, Git-based workflows and CI/CD controls.
IAM, IDAM / IGA, PAM, authentication, federation and enterprise directory services.
Secure by Design, security assurance and technical risk management.
Strategic perspective combined with sufficient technical depth to assess designs and challenge supporting evidence.
Ability to operate effectively where responsibilities are shared across customer, SDT and delivery-supplier organisations.

Location

Farnborough

Work Type

Onsite 5 days per week

Experience Level

Senior

About the Company

DXC Technology is committed to building diverse, inclusive teams.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds and particularly encourage interest from women, underrepresented groups, and neurodivergent candidates.
We offer reasonable adjustments throughout the hiring process and are dedicated to creating a supportive, accessible environment for everyone.
At DXC Technology, we believe strong connections and community are key to our success.
Our work model prioritizes in-person collaboration while offering flexibility to support wellbeing, productivity, individual work styles, and life circumstances.
We’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.
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DXC does not make offers of employment via social media networks and DXC never asks for any money or payments from applicants at any point in the recruitment process, nor ask a job seeker to purchase IT or other equipment on our behalf.

Equal Opportunity

DXC Technology is committed to building diverse, inclusive teams.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds and particularly encourage interest from women, underrepresented groups, and neurodivergent candidates.
We offer reasonable adjustments throughout the hiring process and are dedicated to creating a supportive, accessible environment for everyone.