Infrastructure Architect

Contract - Infrastructure Architect - PE backed - Regulated business - Scale up

6 months

We're looking for an experienced Infrastructure Architect to support a major platform transformation, moving from a current Azure estate to a modern containerised environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and govern infrastructure architecture across Azure and container platforms.
• Design observability solutions using New Relic, Datadog, or similar tools, covering logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and operational dashboards.
• Lead disaster recovery and resilience design across application, database, and data layers, including backup and restore testing.
• Define environment topology, segregation, and operational support models.
• Drive ITIL-aligned service transition into BAU, including operational acceptance criteria, runbooks, and escalation processes.
• Appian Cloud

Skills & Experience

• Proven Infrastructure, Cloud, or Platform Architect experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes, AKS, Docker, or containerised platforms.
• Expertise in observability and monitoring solutions.
• Strong understanding of resilience, disaster recovery, and operational readiness.
• Experience delivering service transition and ITIL-based support models.

This is an excellent opportunity to shape the future-state architecture of a business-critical cloud platform.