Infrastructure Architect

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 Skills:

• Infrastructure Domains: Compute, Storage, Network, Hosting, Data Centers, Hybrid IT
• Cloud Platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure
• Automation & Configuration: Ansible, Chef
• Databases & Data Platforms: Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL
• Security: Infrastructure security architecture, compliance, policies, and controls
• Resilience: Backup, Disaster Recovery, High Availability, Data Retention

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture

• Lead the design, implementation, and governance of enterprise IT infrastructure across onpremises, 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 shortterm and longterm 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 costeffective infrastructure solutions that balance performance, availability, and budget constraints.
• Drive infrastructure optimization initiatives, including rightsizing, 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 opensource big data technologies
• Ensure data platforms are designed for scalability, performance, reliability, and security.