Infrastructure Architect
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Job Description
Position: Infrastructure Architect
Duration: 6 Month Contract to Hire
Location: Naperville IL (Hybrid 3 days onsite/2 days remotely)
Role Overview:
We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Infrastructure Architect to lead incident management and technical problem-solving efforts across our enterprise systems. This role requires a hands-on leader with deep technical expertise strong communication skills and the ability to operate under pressure in a fast-paced production environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Incident Management & Resolution
- Lead and coordinate high-severity incident response and root cause analysis.
- Facilitate technical war rooms and drive resolution across cross-functional teams.
- Provide clear timely updates to stakeholders and leadership during outages or critical issues.
- Technical Leadership
- Guide troubleshooting sessions involving AWS Cloud Salesforce databases and networking infrastructure.
- Analyze complex infrastructure issues and propose creative actionable solutions.
- Collaborate with vendors to evaluate options and recommend the best course of action.
- Infrastructure & Cloud Expertise
- Design and support scalable secure and resilient cloud infrastructure (primarily AWS).
- Understand and troubleshoot across systems including:
- AWS Cloud Services (Must have it)
- Azure Cloud Service (Preferred)
- Snowflake Cloud (nice to have)
- Salesforce platform (Preferred)
- Relational and NoSQL Databases
- Datadog monitoring and observability tools
- Cisco networking (switches routing connectivity)
- Operational Excellence
- Bring strong production support experience including after-hours availability when needed.
- Monitor system health and performance and proactively address potential issues.
- Maintain and improve incident response playbooks and escalation procedures.
- Communication & Leadership
- Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Provide leadership in planning prioritizing and executing infrastructure initiatives.
- Mentor junior engineers and foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
Required Qualifications:
- 10 years of experience in IT infrastructure cloud operations or related roles.
- Proven experience leading incident response and technical troubleshooting.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of:
- AWS (EC2 VPC S3 CloudWatch etc.)
- Salesforce administration and integration
- Databases (SQL NoSQL)
- Datadog or similar observability platforms
- Cisco networking (switches VLANs routing)
- Familiarity with programming/scripting (Python Bash etc.) and infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Excellent analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Willingness to work extended hours during critical incidents.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working in a hybrid cloud environment.
- Exposure to DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
- Prior experience in a consulting or vendor-facing role.
Employment Type
Full-time
