Senior IT Infrastructure Architect

Job Title: Senior IT Infrastructure Architect

Location: New York/New Jersey

Job Type: Contract

Position Overview

The Senior IT Infrastructure Architect is responsible for designing, modernizing, and optimizing enterprise infrastructure platforms across onpremises, hybrid-cloud, and native-cloud environments. This role provides strategic architectural leadership, ensures operational excellence, and guides the adoption of modern infrastructure frameworks, automation, observability, and governance practices that enable secure, scalable, and resilient IT services.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Architecture & Design

Aligns infrastructure technology with future business needs, leading the strategy for technology adoption, upgrades, and modernization.

Develops comprehensive blueprints and high-level designs for software, hardware, and network infrastructure, ensuring they meet business and technical requirements.

Define infrastructure as code (IaC) & automation tool standards for declarative provisioning and infrastructure lifecycle

Lead modernization initiatives including automation, InfrastructureasCode, containerization, monitoring/observability, and AIOps capabilities.

Develops and tests disaster recovery and business continuity plans to ensure systems are resilient and available.

Evaluates vendor solutions, selects technology, and collaborates with IT teams to guide the implementation of technical standards

Technology Leadership

Serve as a technical thought leader guiding enterprise decisions related to cloud engineering, operations, ITSM, and infrastructure services.

Transform complex business and technical requirements into detailed architectural blueprints.

Set infrastructure standards (e.g., IaC, containerization), establishing architectural principles, and implementing policy-as-code to ensure security, compliance, and reliability

Evaluate emerging technologies and provide recommendations aligned to enterprise strategy and operational readiness.

Manage technology costs through cost frameworks, capacity planning, and ROI analysis

Operational Excellence

Partner with operations, engineering, and security teams to ensure resilient, performant infrastructure services that meet SLAs and compliance requirements.

Lead service industrialization efforts, including standardized service catalog patterns, incident and event workflows, guardrails, and operational readiness.

Drive process automation across provisioning, monitoring, patching, and lifecycle management.

Governance & Compliance

Ensure infrastructure architectures adhere to governance frameworks, security policies, and risk management guidelines.

Build documentation, architectural standards, and technical guidelines to ensure consistency across teams.

Conduct design reviews and provide architectural oversight for major infrastructure initiatives.

Collaboration & Leadership

Collaborate with crossfunctional teams IT Operations, Cloud, Network, Security, and Application groups to align solutions and ensure endtoend service quality.

Mentor engineers and foster a highperformance culture focused on continuous improvement.

Provide executivelevel communication and technical leadership across the organization.

Required Skills & Qualifications

BS in computer science or equivalent field of study

10+ years of progressive experience in IT Infrastructure Engineering or Architecture.

Deep expertise in hybrid cloud (Azure), virtualization, Windows/Linux platforms, networking, storage systems, and automation frameworks.

Strong background in ITSM, service delivery, and operational workflows (ITIL, incident/event/change management).

Handson experience with IaC services, CI/CD pipelining, GIT, Jenkins, Python, JSON, YAML, Terraform, jfrog artifactory, monitoring/observability platforms.

Proven experience in project management.

Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

Strong understanding of network, server, and storage architecture.

Proficiency in designing and maintaining data centers.

Knowledge of security protocols and best practices.

Experience with enterprise-level IT infrastructure planning and development.

Strong background in TCP/IP services, platform services, network communications protocols and services, security services.

Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills with ability to translate complex concepts for technical and nontechnical audiences.

Technology certifications such as Azure, ITIL, TOGAF.