Infrastructure Architect

Experience level

Architecture and design

• Define 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 banking experience.
• Demonstrated architecture leadership in a large core banking transformation.
• Track record designing high availability and disaster recovery for tier-1 banking systems.
• Experience working with core banking vendors and global system integrators.

Technical skills

• Hybrid cloud architecture; Azure is strongly preferred.
• VMware virtualization, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Linux and enterprise storage, including SAN/NAS and object storage.
• Oracle database infrastructure, including RAC, Data Guard and Exadata.
• Data-centre and cloud networking, load balancing and security zoning.
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or 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.