Senior Infrastructure Architect

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Edmonton - Canada

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 5 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

THE ONLY DIRECTION YOU KNOW IS above AND beyond.

The Opportunity

Are you passionate about using modern technologies to solve complex enterprise challenges The Senior Infrastructure Architect is a senior individualcontributor role responsible for the architecture technical direction and longterm health of a defined portfolio of enterprise infrastructure platforms.

This role ensures infrastructure solutions are secure resilient scalable and operationally reliable supporting both memberfacing services and core business operations. Working at an enterprise level the Senior Infrastructure Architect translates business and technology strategy into practical supportable architectures that balance todays stability with future needs.

The role provides senior technical leadership across its portfolio owning architectural standards and platform lifecycle decisions. While it does not include people management the role leads through technical credibility collaboration with operations and delivery teams and stewardship of critical infrastructure platforms.

The Team Youve Been Looking For
AMA is more than a workplace; its a family. Together we help protect the things that matter most to our more than one-million memberseverything from roadside safety to retail savings food security to childhood well-being. And with operations that span automotive registries travel insurance and more the opportunities to grow with us are almost limitless!

Building on a century of proud service in Alberta communities were passionate about making a meaningful difference in the places where we live and work. And that all begins with our people. As part of the AMA team youll enjoy:

  • Competitive salary and flexible benefits
  • Employer-paid retirement savings program
  • Employee-exclusive discounts on travel insurance memberships and more
  • Free travel medical insurance for you and your immediate family
  • Ongoing professional development
  • Paid vacation and personal days including a Volunteer Day and Me Day
  • Flexible work models that make sense for your lifestyle

For us curiosity fuels innovation. We value people who are eager to explore new ideas and who are comfortable putting emerging technologies into practice. We see experience with AIpowered tools like ChatGPT Copilot and similar platforms as a real plus - especially when its used to work smarter increase efficiency and find better ways to get things done.

Who You Are

  • You like being in an environment that allows you to connect and interact with people daily but are just as comfortable working independently.
  • Youre confident in making decisions guided by data your lived experiences and a strong sense of integrity.
  • Yourea problem solver with an inquisitive analytical mind. You love coming up with new ways to tackle a challenge and relish digging into the details to find the right solution.
  • You thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environments.
  • You know how to juggle priorities balancing operational responsibilities with project work and you thrive in environments where you can take initiative with minimal direction.
  • Youre not afraid to ask why and push for better ways of doing things.

How Youll Make an Impact

  • Own and shape the future of enterprise infrastructure by acting as a senior technical authority across cloud and onprem environments defining long-term platform direction and infrastructure solutions that enable decentralized teams to build and operate securely.
  • Act as the authoritative infrastructure representative in architecture governance forums owning the definition stewardship and evolution of securebydesign standards and reusable infrastructure patterns adopted across the enterprise.
  • Translate long term architectural vision into executable strategy establishing reference architectures standards and technical roadmaps - while remaining hands-on to ensure successful delivery and real-world impacts.
  • Influence enterprise technology direction by distilling complex technical challenges emerging trends and architectural trade-offs into clear guidance for senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Mentor and grow the technical capabilities of the infrastructure team with a focus on infrastructure automation codedriven operations and reducing manual effort helping evolve the team toward a platformoriented operating model.
  • Continuously assess and introduce emerging technologies balancing innovation with operational excellence security and long-term sustainability.
  • Establish and lead pragmatic decisionmaking and governance frameworks ensuring infrastructure changes are reviewed consistently documented clearly and aligned with enterprise strategy - without slowing down delivery.

What You Bring to the Table

  • Post-secondary degree or diploma in Information Technology or a related field
  • 8 years of progressive experience leading the design and evolution of enterprise infrastructure with a track record of influencing architecture across multiple domains
  • Demonstrated ability to solve complex cross-domain challenges spanning networking compute storage containers and identity across hybrid environments
  • Proven experience driving automation at scale reducing operational overhead and enabling platform-based delivery models
  • Hands-on experience designing and delivering secure resilient cloud-native and hybrid architectures including deep familiarity with AWS
  • 4 years of applied experience with software-defined infrastructure including infrastructure automation using tools such as CDK Terraform Ansible Puppet or similar
  • Strong scripting experience in at least one language (PowerShell Bash or equivalent)
  • Experience delivering infrastructure automation in a versioncontrolled workflow including peer review practices (e.g. pull requests) to ensure changes are welldocumented supportable and repeatable
  • Experience defining enterprise-level blueprints standards and roadmaps that drive consistency and scalability
  • Demonstrated ability to influence without authority aligning diverse teams toward shared infrastructure standards and practices
  • Youll get bonus points if you have:
    • AWS (Solutions Architect Professional CloudOps Engineer Administrator - Associate)
    • Experience designing or implementing agentic AI workflows including the use of AI agents reusable skills and supporting orchestration or runtime services (e.g. MCPstyle servers)

Belonging Matters Here
AMA is committed to providing an inclusive respectful and accessible environment. If you require an accommodation at any time during our recruitment process please contact . Well work with you to feel supported throughout your journey with us.

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WORK MODEL:

Hybrid-Light

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We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.


Required Experience:

Senior IC

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