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The IT Infrastructure Design Engineer is responsible for designing secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure solutions that support business objectives. This role translates technical and operational requirements into architecture designs, standards, roadmaps, and implementation plans across on-premises, cloud, network, compute, storage, backup, and platform environments. The position partners with engineering, security, application, operations, and business teams to ensure solutions are supportable, compliant, and aligned with enterprise technology strategy. This position will be primarily remote with some travel to the Chicago, IL area anticipated.
Key Responsibilities- Design end-to-end infrastructure solutions across cloud and on-premises environments, including networks, servers, virtualization, storage, backup, identity, and monitoring.
- Produce high-level and low-level designs, architecture diagrams, technical specifications, capacity models, bills of materials, and implementation roadmaps.
- Gather and validate business, technical, security, availability, performance, recovery, and support requirements.
- Define infrastructure standards, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and lifecycle strategies.
- Evaluate technology options and recommend solutions based on risk, scalability, interoperability, operational fit, and total cost of ownership.
- Embed security-by-design, least-privilege access, segmentation, encryption, logging, vulnerability management, and regulatory requirements into designs.
- Design for high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, observability, automation, and operational resilience.
- Partner with project managers and engineering teams to estimate effort, identify dependencies, manage technical risks, and support implementation.
- Review proposed changes and validate that delivered solutions conform to approved designs and acceptance criteria.
- Support incident and problem management by identifying architectural weaknesses and recommending corrective improvements.
- Maintain accurate documentation, configuration standards, technology roadmaps, and lifecycle records.
- Communicate technical decisions, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Required Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Five or more years of experience in infrastructure engineering, architecture, design, or a closely related role.
- Demonstrated experience designing hybrid infrastructure solutions in medium-to-large enterprise environments.
- Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing, switching, firewalls, load balancing, VPNs, and network segmentation.
- Strong knowledge of Windows and/or Linux platforms, virtualization, storage, backup, directory services, and core infrastructure services.
- Experience with at least one major public cloud platform and its networking, compute, storage, identity, and governance services.
- Understanding of infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, scripting, automation, and CI/CD concepts.
- Working knowledge of security frameworks, disaster recovery principles, high-availability patterns, and infrastructure monitoring.
- Ability to create clear technical documentation and present complex design decisions to varied audiences.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills.
For salaried positions, this role may also be eligible for an annual performance bonus. Additional benefits and perks may also be available, depending on the position and employment terms. This range reflects consideration of several factors, including skills, experience, training, certifications, and organizational needs.
Our People and CultureAt Impact Advisors, we cultivate a caring, fun, honest, and autonomous work environment. Our success stems from our associates' dedication and a shared mission to create a "Positive Impact." We embrace diversity and inclusion, fostering an environment where all employees feel valued and empowered.
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