Infrastructure Architect

Salary: £40,000 - 73,000 per year

Requirements

• Proven experience as an Infrastructure Architect, Cloud Architect or Platform Architect in complex enterprise environments
• Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing cloud-hosted platforms and managed services
• Demonstrable experience with cloud hosting in Microsoft Azure, AWS cloud environments or private cloud
• Strong understanding of infrastructure architecture, cloud networking, security and identity, disaster recovery, resilience engineering, performance optimisation, and operational support models
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, Packer, PowerShell, and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience working with Kubernetes, containers, and modern platform technologies
• Strong knowledge of networking concepts including firewalls, VPNs, load balancing, DNS, routing, and SD-WAN
• Experience working within highly available or mission critical systems environments
• Ability to work across both strategic architecture and practical technical delivery
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Comfortable working in Agile and collaborative engineering environments
• Knowledge and experience designing and implementing highly available voice solutions
• Preferred experience with UK Emergency Services, Telephony, and Airwave radio connectivity/infrastructure
• Experience delivering managed services or SaaS platforms
• Experience within public safety, defence, government, or other highly regulated industries
• VMware and hybrid infrastructure experience

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure, scalable, and resilient cloud-hosted managed service platforms
• Define infrastructure architecture for mission critical applications, including cloud hosting, networking, resilience and disaster recovery, high availability, performance and scalability, security and operational monitoring, and automated deployment using Infrastructure as Code
• Work closely with software engineering and DevOps teams to enable cloud-native deployment models
• Develop and improve infrastructure-as-code and automation capabilities
• Support major bids and customer engagements with infrastructure and hosting architecture expertise
• Produce high- and low-level technical designs and supporting documentation
• Define operational readiness requirements for managed service environments
• Support platform standardisation, governance, and technical assurance activities
• Work with customers and third-party suppliers to integrate infrastructure into existing enterprise environments
• Contribute to cloud migration, modernisation, and platform transformation initiatives
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring across infrastructure and platform engineering domains
• Support operational teams with third-line technical expertise where required

Technologies

• AI
• AWS
• Ansible
• Architect
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Load Balancing
• PowerShell
• Robotics
• Security
• Terraform
• VMware

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We are Saab UK, part of Scandinavias largest defence company, bringing together Swedish and British innovation to deliver world-leading solutions and services in defence, aviation, space, and civil security. We employ over 600 people across eight UK sites, with specialisms including software engineering, underwater robotics, radars, AI, and armed forces training. This is a 12-month fixed-term contract, and the role can be based remotely anywhere in the UK. Within our Public Safety Solutions team, we develop advanced software applications and mission-critical solutions for police, fire & rescue, airports, and other public safety organisations, supporting real-time operational environments where resilience, availability, and security are essential. We are growing and transforming our managed services capability, offering opportunities for personal fulfilment and career growth in a highly collaborative and technically challenging environment.

last updated 27 week of 2026