Solution Architect - Defence

Solutions ArchitectLocation: Bristol (North East/ with Parking) Job Type: Full-time/4 days on siteSalary £67,056 to £72,107 Solutions Architect to play a strategic and hands-on role in the design, development, and governance of enterprise infrastructure solutions across secure on-premises, hybrid, and private cloud environments. This role is crucial within a highly regulated defence environment, focusing on Microsoft-based enterprise ecosystems alongside virtualisation, networking, and storage platforms. The successful candidate will define scalable, resilient, and supportable infrastructure architectures that meet both operational and business requirements.Day-to-day of the role:Produce high-level and low-level infrastructure designs (HLDs and LLDs) across various environments, ensuring alignment with business, operational, and technical requirements.Define and maintain enterprise infrastructure standards, reference architectures, and design principles covering compute, storage, networking, virtualisation, and hybrid integration.Lead technical discovery activities to assess existing infrastructure environments, identify technical debt, dependencies, and opportunities for modernisation.Translate business requirements into scalable and resilient infrastructure designs in collaboration with project managers, architects, and technical teams.Provide architectural governance across the project lifecycle, ensuring solutions are reviewed and aligned to enterprise standards and ..... full job details .....