Infrastructure Architect

Infra architect - Remote

Duration:12+ months

Rate: DOE

Below is the JD for the architect role we are looking for

• Execute end-to-end data center migration plans, ensuring minimal downtime, data integrity, and business continuity.
• Experience in VIP migration activity being done across the environment
• Experience in designing, building, and managing SOR environments
• Hands-on experience in designing, deploying, and managing network and security components, including Firewalls
• Hands-on experience in ForgeRock and other identity management solutions
• Understanding of Middleware integrations and dependencies
• Design and build infrastructure platforms (compute, network, storage, backup) aligned to future-ready architectures.
• Hands-on implementation of migration activities, including application dependency mapping, workload move planning, validation, cutover execution, and decommissioning.
• Leverage and promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and automation frameworks (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, etc.) for provisioning, configuration management, and repeatability.
• Develop and perform rigorous testing, validation, and failover drills for migrated platforms.
• Collaborate with application and cloud teams to optimize hybrid cloud architecture, including DR, HA, and performance.
• Drive implementation of monitoring, observability, and operational readiness using modern telemetry stacks.
• Contribute to strategy for network design, WAN optimization, DNS, load balancing, and security postures across data centers and cloud.
• Serve as a technical escalation point for complex infrastructure-related issues during migration lifecycle.
• Document architecture, designs, procedures, and recovery processes with clarity and precision.
• Evaluate and integrate third-party tools and services needed to support migration and modernization.

Required Experience and Skills

• 10+ years of hands-on infrastructure engineering and architecture experience across large enterprise environments.
• 5+ years leading complex data center migration projects (physical, virtual, and cloud workloads).
• Proficient with cloud and hybrid infrastructure designs using AWS and Azure.
• Solid understanding of application dependency mapping, interconnectivity, and layered services migration.
• Experience integrating Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity (BCP) into infrastructure blueprints.
• Experience with CI/CD and configuration management tools (Git, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to create technical documentation and engage with stakeholders.

Mentioned below is what we received from the person who is working with the customer on this opportunity.

1. Oversee the VIP migration work that is being done by Cognizant.
2. Has a good understanding of infrastructure (Firewall rules) etc and can work with the LPL leads to remediate any issues
3. Coordinates with the middleware team for changes
4. Has a good understanding of ForgeRock and identity solutions to collaborate with the infosec teams
5. Works with the Varicent team to set up the commission s environment.