Proven experience in a Infrastructure Architect role, experience gained within large, complex environments
• Previous experience working within Retail is highly regarded
• Solid understanding and design capability across multiple infrastructure domains such as computing, storage, database, backups, cost management and addressing security controls in the Cloud (Azure & GCP)
• Strong business analysis and stakeholder engagement skills
• Exceptional communication skills coupled with an ability to negotiate and influence
• Proven ability to consult and provide advice to internal stakeholders
• Experience in the development of infrastructure architectures for large enterprise (conceptual, logical and physical)
• Deep expertise in either VMware's virtualization platform, or Microsoft Hyper-V platform with a focus on large distributed architecture and operational management.
• Experience in local area network architecture focusing on design, monitoring and operational requirements.
• Excellent understanding of Azure PaaS (Azure App Service, Azure SQL, Azure Container Registry, Azure Data Factory etc.) and Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Azure Resource Manager Templates etc.)
• Knowledge of container runtime (Docker, containers) and container orchestration (Kubernetes) is a bonus