Infrastructure Engineering Design Lead - Active DV Mandatory

Role Overview: Infrastructure Design Lead

Contract Duration: 6 Months (Inside IR35)
Location: London, UK (100% On-site / 5 Days per Week)
Security Clearance: Active DV (Developed Vetting) Clearance is mandatory

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Design Lead to direct a team of infrastructure engineers in architecting, deploying, and optimizing robust enterprise-grade environments. In this role, you will act as the technical authority across compute, storage, networking, automation, and virtualization platforms.

You will be responsible for translating high-level business objectives into resilient, secure, and scalable technical solutions, ensuring all architectural blueprints comply with rigorous government security frameworks and long-term IT roadmaps. This is a hands-on technical leadership position balancing end-to-end design governance, operational delivery, and team mentorship.

Key Responsibilities

Architectural Governance & Technical Authority: Lead the end-to-end authoring, validation, and review of robust High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs) for high-stakes, mission-critical services.
Requirements Translation: Bridge the gap between non-technical stakeholders and engineering teams by converting operational and business needs into actionable infrastructure architecture.
Security & Compliance Standards: Embed security-by-design principles into all architectural stages, ensuring strict adherence to NIST, CIS benchmarks, and relevant national security baselines.
Hands-on Team Leadership: Steer multidisciplinary engineering squads through complex delivery cycles, operational troubleshooting, and infrastructure modernization projects.
Enterprise Resilience Strategy: Formulate blueprints that guarantee high availability, rapid service recoverability, and comprehensive disaster recovery capabilities across hybrid and on-premises footprints.

Candidate Profile & Technical Capabilities

Design & Core Architecture Principles
Proven background functioning as a Design Authority / Technical Lead in secure, mission-critical enterprise environments.
Deep mastery of resilient design concepts: Fault Tolerance, High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), Capacity Planning, Elastic Scaling (horizontal/vertical), and Resilience Engineering.
Practical knowledge of NIST and CIS security control implementations.
Core Infrastructure & Virtualization
Advanced design and deployment expertise with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and modern enterprise virtualization suites.
Strong background across bare-metal server hardware and enterprise OS platforms (Windows Server and Linux distributions such as RHEL, Rocky Linux, or Ubuntu).
Storage, Protection & Networking
Design proficiency with enterprise SAN/NAS storage arrays (e.g., Dell PowerStore, NetApp).
Architecting modern backup, deduplication, and recovery solutions (e.g., Veeam, Cohesity, or Veritas NetBackup).
Solid grasp of core data-centre networking, including Layer 2/3 routing, switching topologies, and firewall boundary protections.
Automation & Observability
Practical automation and configuration management skills using Ansible, PowerShell, or Bash.
Experience implementing comprehensive infrastructure monitoring, telemetry, and observability frameworks.

Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed