Infrastructure Technical Architect (Internal Only)

This role exists to ensure appropriate designs and architecture of King’s College London’s core services that are supported by the Private Cloud Infrastructure & Virtualisation (PCI&V) Team.

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience: Essential criteria * Demonstrable IT operational monitoring, management and troubleshooting skills and experience of problem resolution methodologies associated with virtualisation, converged and hyper converged infrastructure technologies as aligned to the role

• Demonstrable design and architecture experience, covering public, private and hybrid cloud solutions, virtualisation, converged and hyper converged infrastructure technologies as aligned to the role
• Good working Knowledge of IT Security protocols, processes, policies, and standards
• Proven experience delivering projects and service improvements within structured waterfall projects, as well as Agile / Agile Safe engagements
• Proven ability to write technical documentation including high level and detailed level design, operational run books and manuals
• Ability to identify and manage own priorities, as well as set and achieve goals / objectives for self and the aligned team against personal development plans
• Experience in IT services disaster recovery methodologies in support of business continuity requirements
• Demonstrable experience covering the administration, management and knowledge of the technologies aligned to the role

Desirable criteria Certifications covering the technologies aligned to the role, examples include: Dell and similar vendor Enterprise Servers and Storage solutions VMWare, vSAN, NSX, HCX and other supporting VCF solutions Enterprise and Research Storage solutions Microsoft and other Enterprise Virtualisation Hypervisors Windows / Linux Operating Systems and associated services such as authentication and update / patching management Windows File Share services Secure Remote access solutions such as Windows Remote Access Printing solutions such as Papercut DNS, DHCP & IPAM e.g. Infoblox Databases such as SQL, MySQL Open Source / Automation / scripting technologies such as GitHub, Ansible, AWX, Power Automate, Scripting languages such as PowerShell, Perl, Python etc. Event Monitoring, Alerting and Log analysis Tools such as Logic Monitor, and VMWare LogInsight New and emerging technologies and services such as private / hybrid cloud integration solutions ITIL4 / Agile Safe qualifications (Foundation Minimum) Education to degree standard and/or equivalent aligned qualifications / experience Ability to support the team manager identify, track, and manage own and team deliverables, activities, and priorities through appropriate tools such as Azure Dev Ops (ADO) and Jira Familiarity of private, public and hybrid cloud solutions including the assessment and migration of services

This is a full time post, and you will be offered on an indefinite contract

This role is to fulfil Infrastructure Architecture activities surrounding the IT Infrastructure Private Cloud Infrastructure and Virtualisation technology products, and to support the design and architecture of other team / department products and projects., At King’s, we believe that the diversity of our community and a culture that is welcoming, open, inclusive and collaborative, are great strengths of the university. The Equality Act of 2010 protects the rights of our students and staff and provides a framework to fulfil our duties to eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and in addition, to advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between those who share a protected characteristic and those who do not. At times, this will include balancing rights and beliefs that can feel in tension. We are committed to free speech and to academic freedom, believing that our foundational purpose as a university, is to create spaces where a wide range of ideas, including ideas that are controversial, can be discussed and debated, and where members of our community can express lawful views without fear of intimidation, harassment or discrimination. When engaging in the robust exchange of ideas, we ask that our community is mindful of our Dignity at King’s guidance. We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the person specification section of the job description. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible. Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving rapidly, and we recognise its growing role in professional work. Applicants may use AI tools to support preparation of their application, for example to research the role or structure written responses. However, applications must reflect the applicant’s own work and experience. AI tools should not be used during interviews or assessment activities unless this has been agreed in advance as a reasonable adjustment. Further guidance on the use of AI in recruitment can be found here. We reserve the right to close adverts early due to the volume of applications we receive. While the closing date may change, all adverts will close at 23:59 to allow sufficient time for applications to be submitted on that day. We encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment as once we have closed a vacancy you will be unable to submit your application.