Infrastructure Architect

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Job Details:-

Role:- Infrastructure Architect

Location:- Deerfield IL Onsite

Experience Required:-

Job Type:- Full-Time with TCS

Salary Range:- $130000 to $160000 Per Year

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• 12 years in enterprise infrastructure 4 years as Architect or Principal
• Proven delivery of large on-premises data centre programmes
• Multi-site enterprise WAN/LAN design and ownership
• Design authority / ARB leadership experience
• Enterprise customer-facing or managed services background preferred
• Track record in regulated industries (FS healthcare public sector)
• Data Centre: VMware vSphere/NSX/vSAN NetApp Pure Storage Dell EMC
• Networking: Cisco (CCIE-level knowledge) Juniper Arista; BGP OSPF MPLS SD-WAN
• Security: Palo Alto / Fortinet firewalls CyberArk PAM Zero Trust principles
• Storage & Backup: SAN/NAS Veeam Zerto Commvault
• Monitoring: SolarWinds PRTG Zabbix Datadog
• ITSM: ServiceNow ITIL v4 governance

Required/Preferred Certifications:

• TOGAF 9 or 10 (Enterprise Architecture - Essential)
• Cisco CCIE / CCNP Enterprise or Data Centre
• VMware VCP-DCV or VCIX
• ITIL v4 Managing Professional or Strategic Leader

Additional Desirable:

• CISSP or CISM (Security Architecture)
• Juniper JNCIE or Arista ACE (desirable)
• AWS / Azure Solutions Architect (hybrid environments)

Enterprise Architecture Leadership

• Own and evolve the Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture (EIA) framework across on-premises co-location and hybrid environments.
• Serve as Design Authority for all major infrastructure initiatives - chairing Architecture Review Boards (ARB) and Technical Design Authority (TDA) forums.
• Produce and maintain authoritative architecture artefacts: reference architecture HLDs LLDs standards documents and technology roadmaps.
• Engage directly with C-suite and senior business stakeholders to translate business requirements into infrastructure strategy.
• Define technology lifecycle management strategies: refresh cycles decommission plans and vendor roadmap alignment.

Data Centre Architecture & Operations

• Lead the design and governance of enterprise-grade on-premises data centres including Tier III/IV facilities Co-location and private data halls.
• Architect compute platforms: bare-metal servers rack design blade systems and high-density configurations.
• Define storage architecture: SAN (Fibre Channel iSCSI) NAS object storage (e.g. NetApp Pure Storage Dell EMC HPE Nimble).
• Integrate infrastructure pipelines with enterprise CMDB (ServiceNow) for automated asset registration and compliance reporting.
• Oversee power and cooling architecture: UPS systems PDUs hot/cold aisle containment DCIM tooling and PUE optimization.
• Design and govern hypervisor and virtualization platforms: VMware vSphere/vSAN/NSX Microsoft Hyper-V and KVM environments.
• Lead data centre migration consolidation and modernization programs - from planning through cutover and Hypercare.
• Define backup replication and disaster recovery architectures: RTO/RPO targets DR site design and regular DR testing governance

Enterprise Networking Architecture

• Architect and own the enterprise WAN LAN and data centre fabric - spanning campus branch and multi-site environments.
• Design and govern core/distribution/access layer switching architectures using vendors such as Cisco Juniper Arista or HPE Aruba.
• Lead SD-WAN design and deployment programs including overlay/underlay architecture traffic engineering And policy frameworks.
• Architect MPLS BGP OSPF IS-IS and VRF-based routing for complex multi-site enterprise networks.
• Design secure network segmentation: VLANs VXLANs micro-segmentation and macro-segmentation strategies.
• Define and govern enterprise firewall and perimeter security architecture (Palo Alto Fortinet Check Point Cisco ASA/FTD).
• Oversee load balancing architecture (F5 Citrix ADC / NetScaler HAProxy) across data centre and Application tiers.
• Lead network performance management: QoS frameworks traffic shaping capacity modelling and link aggregation.
• Define Out-of-Band (OOB) management network architecture and remote hands procedures.

Security Architecture & Compliance

• Embed Zero Trust Network Architecture (ZTNA) principles across on-premises and hybrid environments.
• Define IAM and PAM architecture: Active Directory LDAP RADIUS TACACS CyberArk or equivalent.
• Govern infrastructure security posture: patch management vulnerability scanning hardening baselines (CIS DISA STIG).
• Ensure compliance with regulatory frameworks relevant to the customers industry (ISO 27001 SOC 2 NIST CSF PCI-DSS GDPR HIPAA).
• Develop and maintain Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) architecture and test programs.

Observability ITSM & Operational Excellence

• Define observability and monitoring architecture: SNMP NetFlow/sFlow IPFIX and tooling such as SolarWinds Zabbix PRTG or Datadog.
• Establish ITSM and CMDB governance: ITIL-aligned change incident and problem management aligned to ServiceNow or equivalent platforms.
• Own infrastructure capacity planning: modelling future demand across compute storage and network resources.
• Define SLAs SLOs and operational KPIs; drive continuous service improvement programs.

Kind Regards

Yogesh Kumar

Sr. IT Recruiter