DDI Architect

Role Title: DDI Specialist - DNS, DHCP and IPAM

Start Date: April 2026
End Date: 30 November 2026
Contract Rate:£500 day rate INSIDE IR35
Location: Sheffield
Onsite Requirement: 3 days per week
Number of Positions: 2

Company Introduction

We are seeking a highly skilled DDI (DNS, DHCP & IPAM) subject matter expert with extensive experience in the DDI technology space to join our tier 1 banking client for a contract until end of November.

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Infrastructure Projects: Demonstrated experience in planning, implementing, and supporting large-scale DDI infrastructure projects, including both physical (Servers, appliances) and logical (software versions, product changes, data migrations) upgrades and migrations.
• Design and Deployment: Expertise in designing, deploying, and operationalizing DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) infrastructure across new environments, ensuring a consumable and scalable service for internal stakeholders.
• Risk Management: Solid understanding of risk assessment and management, including the ability to address headwind challenges and assess downstream user or service impacts.
• Communication Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work constructively and collaboratively within a team as well as independently, across time zones, geographies, and languages. Proficiency in English is essential.
• Project Management: Understanding of industry-standard project management methodologies, tooling, and governance, with a proven track record of planning, documenting, and managing infrastructure project implementations.
• Technical Expertise: Must have expert-level engineering experience with DDI technologies such as Cygna VitalQIP, AMS & AMM's, EfficientIP, Infoblox, and F5 BIG-IP DNS.
• Network Protocols: Experience with network protocols including TCP/IP, UDP, and DNS.
• Automation and Scripting: Familiarity with automation and Scripting languages (Shell, Ansible, VBA, Python, JavaScript, JSON, API integration or development) is advantageous but not mandatory.
• Agile Experience: Experience working in an Agile team, participating in agile ceremonies, and a working knowledge of JIRA is beneficial.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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