Infrastructure Designer

Infrastructure Designer
12 Month contract initially
Based: Manchester/Hybrid. (2-3 days p/w onsite in Manchester)
Rate: £400 - £450 p/d - (via Umbrella company)

We have a great opportunity with a world leading organisation where you will be provided with all of the support and development to succeed. A progressive organisation where you can really make a difference. We have a great opportunity for a Infrastructure Designer to join the team.

Your Responsibilities:
* 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.

Key Skills/knowledge/experience:
* 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.)"

This is an excellent opportunity on a great project of work, If you are looking for your next exciting opportunity, apply now for your CV to reach me directly, we will respond as soon as possible.

LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.