IT Infrastructure Solutions Architect

Join AVEVA as an IT Infrastructure Solutions Architect, where you will lead the architecture, design, and strategic evolution of our hybrid infrastructure platforms. This senior technical role requires hands-on engineering excellence and solution design, serving as a technical authority for our on-premises data center platforms, virtualization, storage, and broader hybrid infrastructure. You will work closely with Infrastructure & Operations engineering teams, I&O leadership, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements and technology trends into scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure solutions.

• Lead the architecture, design, and strategic evolution of hybrid infrastructure platforms, driving forward automation.
• Define and maintain reference architectures and target-state designs for VMware VCF 9.0 platform architecture and lifecycle patterns.
• Lead solution design and implementation for major infrastructure programmes, migrations, and technology refresh initiatives, ensuring designs are scalable, secure, cost-effective, and operationally supportable.
• Hybrid cloud engineering and operations knowledge across Azure and AWS (preferred)
• Strong security-by-design mindset and stakeholder management skills; ability to lead through influence as an individual contributor
• Strong expertise in storage architecture including SAN (Fibre Channel and/or iSCSI), VSAN, NAS, and software-defined storage concepts
• Experience or exposure to infrastructure-as-code
• Experience deploying and operating Horizon/Workspace ONE/RDS at enterprise scale (preferred)
• Experience operating in global enterprise environments with audit/compliance expectations
• Proven capability to architect, govern, and troubleshoot provisioning automation (VCF Automation)
• Expert-level, hands-on experience of virtualization/private cloud capability (VMware/VCF strongly preferred)
• At least 12 years of infrastructure/platform engineering experience including architecture ownership and hands-on delivery
• Proven backup/recovery architecture and operational assurance experience (Veeam/Data Domain patterns, DR test strategy)
• Strong Windows Server and Linux (preferred) engineering expertise; ability to define standards and troubleshoot complex issues
• Proven capability to architect and operationalize enterprise monitoring/observability standards (Logic Monitor and Aria Operations)
• VMware Certified (Advanced) Professional (VCP/VCAP) or VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) or equivalent VCF-level certification
• Hands-on experience operating VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 (SDDC Manager, lifecycle management, vSAN, NSX) in a production environment
• Higher education in Information Technology, Engineering, or related field