Infrastructure Architect

Our client, a global IT consultancy, requires an Infrastructure Architect to take up an initial 3 month contract role, on-site for a large government end-customer based in Preston. The successful applicant will have previous experience of delivering the following work products on multiple occasions:- Operation model, NFR's, Architectural Decisions, detailed design documentation, architecture overview diagrams, environment plan, gap and risk analysis and assumptions. Applicants must have proven experience of working in full time architectural roles throughout the full project lifecycle, producing infrastructure architectural designs and work products in an architectural role. Applicants must have experience of IBM pSeries, Red Hat Linux servers (any make or model), Oracle 11g (including RAC and DataGuard),AIX / Linux, WAS, MQ / Websphere, Informatica / ETL and large scale Data Warehousing environments. Nice to have skills include: experience of architecting High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions in any of the above areas. Finally, due to the nature of the customer and project, applicants must be willing and eligible to go through SC government clearance if not already in possession of SC level clearance. The daily rate of pay is negotiable depending upon experience. Please send CV in the first instance.