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Infrastructure Architect
Infrastructure Architect (12-Month Fixed Term Contract)
About Saab UK
Saab UK is part of Scandinavia’s largest defence company, bringing together the best of Swedish and British innovation. We offer world-leading solutions and services in defence, aviation, space, and civil security to keep people and society safe. Our UK presence has grown rapidly, employing over 600 people across eight sites. Specialisations include software engineering, underwater robotics, radars, AI, and armed forces training.
What You Will Be Part Of
Saab is a leading defence and security company with a clear purpose: to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by 28,000 talented people worldwide, Saab drives technological innovation for a safer, more sustainable future. We design, manufacture, and maintain advanced systems in:
- Aeronautics
- Weapons
- Command and control
- Sensors
- Underwater systems
Saab operates globally, reinforcing defence capabilities in nations worldwide.
The Role
This is a 12-month fixed term contract opportunity within Saab Public Safety Solutions—an extension of our mission to deliver mission-critical solutions to Police, Fire & Rescue, Airports, and other public safety organisations.
As an Infrastructure Architect, you will:
- Shape, design, and implement scalable, resilient, and secure hosting platforms for critical software systems.
- Guide key decisions such as public cloud vs. private cloud and other architecture choices.
- Pour expertise into infrastructure delivery across cloud, on-premise, automation, networking, security, and operational readiness.
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Key Responsibilities
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Design & implement secure, resilient, and scalable cloud-hosted managed service platforms.
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Define infrastructure architecture for mission-critical applications, including:
- Cloud hosting (public/private)
- Networking, high availability, disaster recovery
- Performance, scalability, and security
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployment automation
- Operational monitoring & observability
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Collaborate with software engineering and DevOps teams to enable cloud-native deployment models.
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Improve infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Kubernetes, containers).
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Support customer engagements with infrastructure and hosting expertise.
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Provide technical leadership and mentoring to platform engineering teams.
Additional duties include:
- Technical design documentation (high/low-level)
- Operational readiness for managed service environments
- Platform standardisation and governance assurance
- Interaction with customers and third-party suppliers
- Cloud migration, modernisation, and transformation initiatives
- Third-line technical expertise for operational teams
Qualifications & Experience
Must Have: ✅ 5+ years’ experience as an Infrastructure Architect, Cloud Architect, or Platform Architect in complex enterprise environments. ✅ Hands-on expertise in designing and implementing cloud-hosted (Azure, AWS, or private cloud) managed service platforms. ✅ Strong knowledge of:
- Infrastructure architecture, cloud networking, security, disaster recovery, resilience engineering
- Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform/Ansible/Packer/PowerShell) and pipelines.
- Kubernetes, containers, modern platform technologies.
- Networking (firewalls, VPNs, load balancing, DNS, routing, SD-WAN).
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✅ Experience in high availability/mission-critical environments and cross-functional (strategy + delivery). ✅ Stakeholder management and collaborative workspace fluency (Agile environments). ✅ Governing cloud governance & FinOps practices.
Preferred Experience: 🔹 Designing highly available voice (telephony, Airwave Radio) systems. 🔹 UK Emergency Services or Public Safety infrastructure familiarity. 🔹 Virtualisation (VMware) and hybrid cloud experience. 🔹 Observability/SIEM and Zero Trust security principles. 🔹 Managed services or SaaS platform delivery. 🔹 TOGAF, Azure, AWS, or Kubernetes certifications.
Additional Notes
As a candidate, you consent to Saab UK’s security processes, including:
- Baseline Personnel Security checks
- National Security Vetting
- Reference & rights-to-work verifications.
Preferred candidates will undergo a security interview.
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