IT Enterprise Systems & Cloud Architect

Job Description:

The IT Enterprise System & Cloud Architect is accountable for defining governing and evolving the organizations enterprise infrastructure hybrid cloud and platform architecture in support of missioncritical safetysensitive and highly regulated operations. The role ensures that enterprise systems technical infrastructure and cloud platforms are designed and operated in a secure resilient scalable and standardized manner aligned with business strategy compliance obligations and operational excellence.

Acting as a senior technical authority the Architect translates business and operational requirements into pragmatic supportable architectural designs and implementation plans across onpremises hybrid and cloud environments. The role places strong emphasis on availability recoverability cybersecurity cost governance and lifecycle managementbalancing innovation with operational stability and regulatory compliance.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Enterprise & Cloud Architecture Leadership

• Define and maintain enterprise and cloud target architectures reference designs and multiyear roadmaps spanning data centers/bases hybrid connectivity public cloud (Azure/AWS) and SaaS platforms.
• Act as Design Authority for enterprise infrastructure and cloud solutions ensuring alignment with architectural standards security principles operational models and regulatory expectations.
• Lead architecture reviews for major initiatives platform changes mergers/integrations and vendor solutions.

MissionCritical & Operational Resilience Design

• Architect highly available faulttolerant platforms supporting 24x7 operational environments including disaster recovery business continuity and failover strategies.
• Ensure designs meet stringent uptime performance and recoverability requirements common in aviation industrial and energy operations.
• Partner with Operations & Service Delivery teams to ensure architectures and infrastructure are supportable monitorable and productionready.

Cloud Hybrid & FinOps Governance

• Architect and govern Azure AWS and hybrid environments including landing zones networking identity compute storage and security baselines.
• Establish architectural patterns for scalability cost transparency and financial governance in line with FinOps best practices.
• Provide authoritative guidance on cloud adoption migrations workload placement and decommissioning of legacy platforms.

Identity Security & Compliance Architecture

• Define securebydesign architectures aligned to Zero Trust principles across identity endpoint network and data layers.
• Ensure infrastructure and cloud designs meet internal security standards and external compliance obligations (e.g. ISO 27001 SOX NIS NIST CSF aviation and industrial regulatory requirements and frameworks).
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity and Risk teams to embed controls logging monitoring and auditability into platform designs.

Standards Governance & Vendor Engagement

• Define maintain and enforce enterprise infrastructure collaboration systems and cloud standards guardrails and lifecycle practices.
• Participate in architecture governance forums technical design authorities and change advisory processes.
• Evaluate vendors manage service providers and technology platforms providing independent technical recommendations and risk assessments.

Delivery Enablement & Operational Transition

• Provide handson architectural leadership during project deliveryfrom concept and design through implementation and operational handover.
• Ensure designs are well documented automated where appropriate and transitioned cleanly into steadystate operations.
• Support root cause analysis and remediation of complex crossplatform technical issues.

Strategy Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies relevant to regulated missioncritical environments.
• Identify opportunities for modernization automation consolidation and operational efficiency improvements.
• Contribute to technology strategy investment planning and decision support.

PERSON SPECIFICATION: (minimum education requirements key skills and experience)

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering or equivalent professional experience.
• Architecture Cloud Infrastructure or Security certifications preferred (e.g. Azure Architect TOGAF ITIL Microsoft AWS CISSP)

Experience:

• 10 years of progressive experience in enterprise infrastructure systems and/or cloud environments.
• Demonstrated experience designing and governing complex hybrid and cloud architectures.
• Strong background across compute networking identity storage endpoint management collaboration systems and systems integration.
• Experience working with geographically distributed operations OTadjacent systems or safetycritical environments is highly desirable

Skills:

• Strong enterprise and cloud architecture design capability with a systemsthinking approach.
• Deep technical knowledge of Microsoft enterprise platforms collaboration systems hybrid identity and cloud services.
• Ability to translate complex business and operational requirements into practical sustainable architecture and implementation plans.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to communicate effectively to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Excellent documentation analytical and problemsolving skills.
• Comfortable operating as a senior technical authority without direct line management.

Bristow Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.