Role Title: Infrastructure Designer
Duration: contract to run until 31/12/2026
Location: Manchester, Hybrid 3 days per week onsite
Rate: up to £448.50 p/d Umbrella inside IR35
Role purpose / summary
- Produce infrastructure design documentation based on a solution architecture to be implemented by a 3rd party supplier.
- To coordinate accurate estimates for inclusion in end to end project costs and business cases and to assist with the estimates for the end to end IT costs of the Co-operative Bank.
- Leadership within projects of technical resources and SMEs.
- Input to infrastructure solution frameworks and patterns displaying awareness of external markets and suppliers, so that the best value for money and service is delivered.
- Ensure that clear root cause is established for incidents impacting the deliverables of the Infrastructure CoE and that these issues are addressed.
- Work with 3rd party supplier build teams, development and test environment leads to ensure that solutions implemented across the Bank project portfolio are compliant to design.
- Involvement with 3rd parties to design product integration to existing / new solutions.
- Act as a technical escalation point and convene troubleshooting teams to ensure rapid identification and resolution of infrastructure issues.
- Provide design inputs to areas of expertise such as Mainframe, Networks, Wintel, Database or Connect:Direct.
- Responsibility for producing and assuring design patterns.
- Responsibility for producing and assuring Infrastructure Roadmaps.
- Provide technical escalation point for production services.
- Provide technical escalation point during build phase of new production services.
Knowledge, skills and experience required:
- Extensive experience in VM Ware Platforms and Infrastructure Solutions, Networking Environments & Firewall Knowledge
- Extensive expertise in leading infrastructure solution, design and process improvement activities within an IT operational environment which resulted in improved efficiency, performance and financial benefit.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills for dealing with internal management and teams, liaison with business partners and customers and external IT service providers.
- Excellent technical authoring skills
Additional desirable technical skills:
- Mainframe (CICS, COBOL, Objecstar, CA Datacom, VSAM etc.)
- UNIX Environments (AIX, LINUX, Solaris etc.)
- Wintel / Storage / Desktop Environments
- Data Centre Hosting
- Cloud Services and integration
- Mobile and BYOD
- Middleware and Integration (IBM Message Broker, DataStage etc.)
All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!
