Technology / Infrastructure Architect

Job description

The Technology / Infrastructure Architect is responsible for defining, assessing, and evolving the enterprise technology and infrastructure architecture to ensure reliable, scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-effective technology foundations. The role covers compute, storage, network, virtualization, operating platforms, infrastructure services, hosting, cloud and hybrid environments, technology standards, lifecycle management, resilience, and modernization · Develop and maintain the enterprise technology and infrastructure architecture in alignment with business strategy and enterprise architecture direction. · Assess the current infrastructure landscape, including compute, storage, networks, virtualization, operating systems, hosting, and shared technology services. · Define target-state technology and infrastructure architecture and transition roadmaps. · Develop technology standards, reference architectures, principles, patterns, and approved technology portfolios. · Design scalable, resilient, secure, and highly available infrastructure architectures. · Define architecture for on-premises, private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid infrastructure environments. · Assess infrastructure capacity, utilization, performance, availability, and lifecycle status. · Identify technology obsolescence, end-of-life risks, technical debt, and modernization opportunities. · Define architecture requirements for backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, high availability, and fault tolerance. · Support network architecture including LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, data center networking, connectivity, and segmentation. · Support server, storage, virtualization, container, and platform architecture decisions. · Collaborate with cloud, security, application, integration, data, and solution architects to ensure coherent end-to-end architecture. · Support infrastructure platform selection, vendor evaluation, technical assessments, and solution reviews. · Participate in architecture governance, technical design reviews, and Architecture Review Boards. · Define infrastructure monitoring, observability, capacity management, and operational architecture requirements. · Support data center modernization, consolidation, migration, and infrastructure transformation programs. · Identify infrastructure architecture risks, constraints, dependencies, and mitigation actions

Requirements

• · Minimum 10 years of experience in infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, network engineering, cloud, data center, or related technology disciplines
• · At least 5 years of hands-on experience in Infrastructure Architecture, Technology Architecture, or a comparable senior design role
• · Demonstrated experience designing complex enterprise infrastructure environments
• · Experience with data centers, compute, storage, virtualization, networking, cloud, and hybrid architectures
• · Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure modernization, migration, transformation, or consolidation programs
• · Strong experience working with technology vendors, infrastructure teams, security teams, and senior stakeholders
• Core Competencies
• · Enterprise Technology Architecture
• · Compute and server architecture
• · Storage architecture
• · Network architecture
• · Virtualization and container platforms
• · Cloud and hybrid infrastructure
• · Disaster recovery and business continuity architecture
• · Technology lifecycle and obsolescence management
• · Infrastructure security and segmentation
• · Architecture governance and assurance
• · Technology evaluation and vendor assessment
• Preferred Frameworks, Standards & Methods
• · ArchiMate
• · ITIL
• · COBIT
• · Cloud architecture frameworks and well-architected principles
• · Infrastructure and data center architecture best practices
• · High availability, disaster recovery, and resilience design principles

Skills