Infrastructure Architect London, England
Job description
An Infrastructure Architect is required for a permanent role paying up to £59,988.58 per annum with British Transport Police (BTP) based at BTP Force Headquarters, Camden, London.
BTP is the national police Force for the rail network throughout Great Britain, including London Underground, across which we ensure the safety and security of nearly 3 billion passenger journeys and over 100 million tons of freight every year.
The purpose of the role:
To work with the Architecture and Infrastructure Teams, and their 3rd party providers of server, cloud and storage technologies to design and communicate the structures that enable the implementation and integration of our private cloud into a hybrid cloud solution.
To work with all parties to ensure a smooth transition from the AS IS to the TO BE.
To work with the Service Delivery team to define the service, process and operating models required to support the clouds and cloud services.
To work with the Test Manager to define appropriate infrastructure acceptance tests for the implementation of infrastructure and cloud services, such as Office 365.
To validate infrastructure designs for cloud based virtual datacentres for a number of functions.
The End User Compute (Office 365) and Cloud migration programmes will require the design and definition of the virtual and physical datacentre environments to support the rollout of the new personal computing environment and the migration of on premise, to government cloud or private cloud hosting environments.
Working with the Network Architect, the Infrastructure Architect would be expected to provide guidance on the configuration of the physical and the virtual appliances required to manage and protect the environments, in accordance with the strategic IT direction. The production of infrastructure designs and design policies, strategies, architectures and documentation to support business requirements and strategy.
Please refer to the job description for further information.
- Salary of up to £59,988.58 (£52,519.58 base + £2,835.11 London Allowance + a SFIA supplement of up to £7,469)
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Access to a wide range of training and certifications via Microsoft ESI and Pluralsight platforms
- Competitive pension scheme
- Flexible agile working approach
- Family friendly policies including up to 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave
- Bespoke benefits platform and access to Blue Light Card
- Development opportunities including fully funded apprenticeships
As an equal opportunities employer, British Transport Police is committed to the inclusive treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We want our organisation to be as diverse as the community it serves and strongly encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply. In order for us to achieve this we ask that you complete the relevant diversity monitoring form. Any information relating to the diversity monitoring form are used only with the intent to improve our services and people practices. Please be assured that all applications will be judged on their individual merit and no other factors.
In order to apply, you must have the permanent right to live and work in the UK and have been resident in the UK for the previous 5 YEARS (dependant on the level of vetting required of the role). You will be asked these and other questions to determine your eligibility to work for British Transport Police when you start your application and you must answer honestly. Closing date for applications 4th April at 12pm.
BTP has undertaken a review of Police Staff pensions and as a result of this the Police Staff pension will be changing. The current police staff pension is a Defined Benefit scheme which is administered by the Railways Pension scheme. The new pension scheme which is launching is a Defined Contribution scheme which is administered by Royal London. The new pension scheme is awaiting formal approval and an introductory date is not finalised. The earliest this will be is June 2023. If you have any queries, please contact Emma Norman – [email protected]
Internal candidates must have completed their probation for their current substantive posting and can only apply in tenure if Head of Department approval is emailed to [email protected] prior to the vacancy closing. Internal candidates must confirm that they are not subject to formal action plans for sickness/complaints/discipline or poor performance and that all mandatory training courses have been attended and are in ticket/up to date. A minimum indicator of 3 / developing' or' 'Indicator 5 / no rating must have been achieved on the last reporting year PDR.
