Infrastructure Designer

Who is HelloKindred?

HelloKindred are specialists in staffing marketing, creative and technology roles, offering a range of talent solutions that can be delivered on-site, remotely or hybrid.

Our vision is to make work accessible and people’s lives better. We do this by disrupting traditional employment barriers – connecting ambitious talent to flexible opportunities with trusted brands.

Anticipated Contract End Date/Length: December 31, 2026

Work set up: Hybrid (3 days per week in office)

Our client in the Information Technology and Services industry is looking for an Infrastructure Designer to produce high-quality infrastructure design documentation aligned to solution architectures delivered by third-party suppliers. This role provides technical leadership across projects, ensures design compliance across the project portfolio, and contributes to infrastructure frameworks, design patterns, and roadmaps that deliver value for money and service excellence across the bank’s IT landscape.

What you will do:

• Produce infrastructure design documentation based on solution architecture to be implemented by third-party suppliers.
• Coordinate accurate estimates for inclusion in end-to-end project costs and business cases and assist with estimating end-to-end IT costs.
• Lead technical resources and subject matter experts within projects.
• Contribute to infrastructure solution frameworks and design patterns with awareness of external markets and suppliers.
• Ensure clear root cause is established for incidents impacting Infrastructure CoE deliverables and address issues accordingly.
• Collaborate with third-party supplier build teams and development and test environment leads to ensure solutions are compliant with design.
• Engage with third parties to design product integration with existing and new solutions.
• Act as a technical escalation point and convene troubleshooting teams to resolve infrastructure issues rapidly.
• Provide design inputs across areas such as Mainframe, Networks, Wintel, Database, and Connect:Direct.
• Produce and assure design patterns and infrastructure roadmaps.
• Provide technical escalation support for production services and during the build phase of new production services.

• Extensive experience with VMware platforms, infrastructure solutions, networking environments, and firewall technologies.
• Strong expertise leading infrastructure solution design and process improvement initiatives within IT operational environments that improved efficiency, performance, and financial outcomes.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills to engage internal teams, business partners, customers, and external IT service providers.
• Excellent technical documentation and authoring skills.
• Desirable experience with Mainframe technologies such as CICS, COBOL, Objectstar, CA Datacom, and VSAM.
• Desirable experience with UNIX environments including AIX, Linux, and Solaris.
• Desirable experience with Wintel, storage, and desktop environments.
• Desirable experience with data centre hosting, cloud services and integration, mobile and BYOD, and middleware and integration tools such as IBM Message Broker and DataStage.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Candidates must be legally authorized to live and work in the country where the position is based, without requiring employer sponsorship.

HelloKindred is committed to fair, transparent, and inclusive hiring practices. We assess candidates based on skills, experience, and role-related requirements.

We appreciate your interest in this opportunity. While we review every application carefully, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

HelloKindred is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.