Infrastructure Architect – L4 (Onsite)

Infrastructure Architect L4 (Onsite)

Dallas TX

Role Overview

An accomplished Infrastructure Architect with 15 years of experience in designing managing and modernizing enterprise-scale IT infrastructure environments. Proven expertise across compute storage networking hosting services security and cloud platforms with a strong ability to align infrastructure architecture with business objectives. Adept at driving strategic initiatives optimizing cost improving resilience and ensuring high availability security and scalability of IT systems.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture

• • Lead the design implementation and governance of enterprise IT infrastructure across on premises hybrid and cloud environments.
  • Translate business requirements into robust scalable and secure infrastructure architectures that support current and future growth.
  • Ensure infrastructure solutions align with organizational standards industry best practices and compliance requirements.

Technology Strategy & Roadmap

• • Continuously evaluate industry trends and emerging technologies to keep the infrastructure landscape modern competitive and future-ready.
  • Define and maintain short term and long term infrastructure architecture roadmaps ensuring alignment with business and IT strategy.
  • Provide architectural direction for modernization initiatives legacy transformation and digital adoption programs.

Capacity Planning & Resilience

• • Perform capacity planning for compute storage network and cloud resources to support enterprise workloads efficiently.
  • Architect and oversee data retention strategies backup solutions high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) plans ensuring minimal downtime and business continuity.
  • Regularly test and validate DR and failover strategies.

Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure

• • Design and manage cloud-based infrastructure solutions using platforms such as AWS and Microsoft Azure ensuring optimal performance security and cost efficiency.
  • Provide expertise across IaaS PaaS and hybrid cloud models.
  • Assess customers existing application and infrastructure landscapes and define end-to-end cloud migration roadmaps including re-hosting re-platforming and modernization strategies.
  • Implement automation and configuration management using tools such as Ansible Chef or equivalent technologies.

Security & Compliance

• • Develop implement and enforce IT infrastructure security policies and procedures across environments.
  • Ensure infrastructure designs meet security compliance and regulatory standards including access control data protection and vulnerability management.
  • Collaborate closely with security teams to proactively mitigate risks and strengthen infrastructure security posture.

Cost Optimization & Operational Excellence

• • Architect cost effective infrastructure solutions that balance performance availability and budget constraints.
  • Drive infrastructure optimization initiatives including right sizing automation and adoption of cloud-native capabilities.
  • Support operations teams with L3 expertise ensuring rapid resolution of complex infrastructure issues.

Database & Data Platform Expertise

• • Provide architectural guidance for Relational NoSQL and Big Data platforms including:
    • Oracle SQL Server PostgreSQL
    • Hadoop Spark and other open source big data technologies
  • Ensure data platforms are designed for scalability performance reliability and security.