Infrastructure Architect

12-15+ years in banking infrastructure and architecture

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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

Skills: Azure , Kubernetes , Infrastructure as Code