Infrastructure Solution Architect - Distributed Edge Platforms £525-£575/day | Inside IR35 | 6 months | UK Hybrid We are recruiting for a senior Infrastructure Solution Architect to design and standardise distributed hosting platforms across a global manufacturing environment. The programme involves establishing repeatable Edge Hosting solutions supporting virtual machines, containers, legacy applications and data/AI workloads across multiple factory locations. Key experience: Enterprise infrastructure architecture across distributed and hybrid environments Virtualisation and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) VMware, Nutanix, Azure Local or similar platforms Kubernetes, containers and associated infrastructure Compute, storage, backup, disaster recovery and high availability Defining reusable reference architectures and technical standards Workload placement across Edge, data centre and cloud environments Producing HLDs, architecture decisions and technical design documentation Working across infrastructure, networking, security and operational teams Manufacturing IT/OT experience, Dell NativeEdge or GPU-enabled Edge platforms would be advantageous. Contract: 6 months, £525-£575/day, Inside IR35 via umbrella. Location: UK hybrid, with site engagement as required. Please apply with a CV demonstrating your distributed infrastructure and platform architecture experience