Technical Architect

About the role

Astuco is looking for an experienced Technical Architect who excels at turning complex requirements into secure, scalable, and high-performing technical solutions. You’ll work closely with a collaborative team, combining strategic oversight with hands-on involvement to design architectures that meet both business and technical needs. You’ll have the freedom to innovate, build prototypes, develop proof-of-concepts, and guide engineers, ensuring that every solution is robust, efficient, and aligned with our clients’ objectives. This role requires both a deep technical understanding of infrastructure and systems, and the ability to communicate architectural decisions clearly to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and oversee the implementation of end-to-end technical architectures across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments.
• Collaborate with Application and Service Architects to ensure functional and non-functional requirements are met.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers and support technicians.
• Define and maintain architectural standards, best practices, and technical roadmaps to guide delivery teams.
• Support the full IT infrastructure lifecycle (planning, design, deployment, monitoring, ongoing operational management).
• Create prototypes, demos, and proof-of-concepts to validate technical approaches.
• Participate in estimation, planning, and risk management to deliver projects on time and within quality standards.
• Produce and review high- and low-level designs for coherence, technical quality and continuous improvement.
• Identify capability gaps in existing architectures and recommend enhancements aligned with Agile and continuous-improvement methodologies.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Create clear, concise technical documentation.

Candidate Requirements

• Proven experience as a Technical Architect / Private Cloud Architect with significant enterprise infrastructure design and delivery experience.
• Strong experience delivering enterprise-scale solutions across Windows, Linux and cloud.
• Hands-on VMware expertise (vSphere, vSAN, NSX, Aria Suite); VMware VCP or equivalent preferred.
• Deep Windows platform services knowledge (Active Directory, DNS, Group Policy, PKI, ADFS, WSUS).
• Experience/understanding of containerisation, identity management, lifecycle management.
• Track record designing/implementing scalable, secure, highly available systems (greenfield builds and application upgrades).
• Strong understanding of IaaS, PaaS, DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines and automation/orchestration tooling.
• Experience producing HLD/LLD, solution architecture documentation and operational runbooks.
• Strong networking, load balancing and SDN knowledge.
• Agile/Scrum experience with DevSecOps tools (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Git).
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Familiarity with Zero Trust and CIS/NCSC hardening.

Package

• Competitive salary
• Discretionary annual bonus up to 10%
• Generous flexible benefit package (company car, extra leave, family healthcare, life assurance + more)
• Company pension with 8% contribution
• Comprehensive BUPA Complete medical insurance with zero excess
• Company mobile phone & high-spec laptop
• Premium branded North Face clothing, bag and goodies
• A culture committed to investing in people with training, development and career progression

How to Apply

If you're excited by the opportunity to join Astuco Ltd and make a real impact on complex technical solutions, we'd love to hear from you. Please submit your CV and a brief cover outlining your relevant experience and why you're interested in this role to: recruitment@astu.co