Infrastructure Architect(Hybrid Onsite)

Job Title

Infrastructure Architect (Hybrid Onsite)

Location

Redwood City, CA

Duration

6 Months

Interview Type

Virtual & In-Person

Description

Job Summary:

Owns the end-to-end technical architecture for managed services engagement — spanning cloud (Azure/AWS), compute and virtualization (Windows/ESXi, Linux), storage and backup (Cohesity), identity (Okta, Active Directory & Entra ID), network (Cisco), endpoint management (Intune), SaaS collaboration (Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Box, Zoom, Teams), contact center (AWS Connect), and the ITSM/ServiceNow process layer — ensuring every tower's design decisions fit together as one coherent, secure, and supportable platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the target-state infrastructure architecture across cloud, virtualization, Linux, storage/backup, identity, network, endpoint management, and SaaS collaboration platforms for the account

• Set architecture standards and design patterns that individual tower engineers (Cloud, Windows/Linux, Storage & Backup, Network, IAM) build to, ensuring cross-tower consistency and no conflicting designs

• Review and approve high-risk/high-impact changes at the Change Advisory Board from an architectural risk perspective, partnering with the Change & Configuration Management lead

• Act as the design-authority escalation point for Major Incidents and Problem Management where root cause sits at an architecture/design level rather than a single component

• Lead capacity and scalability planning across the estate, reconciling SOW-committed baselines (such as VM counts and the ~50TB backup estate) against actual deployed footprint and growth trends

• Define the reference architecture for identity (Okta plus Active Directory/Entra ID), ensuring SSO, lifecycle, and conditional access design is coherent across both platforms

• Own the technical design for one-time/project engagements that intersect multiple towers, such as the AWS Connect IVR deployment, ensuring the delivered solution fits the long-term architecture rather than becoming a one-off outlier

• Partner with the ServiceNow ITSM Administrator and Service Management Leads to ensure CMDB, Incident, Problem, Change, Knowledge, and Service Request processes are architecturally sound and reflect the real environment

• Produce and maintain architecture documentation — reference diagrams, standards, and decision records — for the account

• Represent the technical architecture in account governance (Weekly/Monthly Service Reviews) and customer-facing technical discussions

Top Skills

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years in IT infrastructure engineering, with at least 3-5 years in an architect or technical design-authority role spanning multiple domains

• Broad working knowledge across Azure and AWS, Windows Server/VMware ESXi, Linux, and enterprise backup/storage platforms (Cohesity or equivalent)

• Strong identity and access architecture background: Okta (or equivalent IDP), Active Directory, and Entra ID/Azure AD, including hybrid identity and SSO design

• Solid understanding of enterprise network architecture: Cisco switching, firewalls, wireless, and VLAN/segmentation design

• Experience architecting or overseeing endpoint management (Intune/MDM) and SaaS collaboration platforms (Microsoft 365, Box, Zoom) at enterprise scale

• Demonstrated experience operating within a formal ITIL-based ITSM framework — Incident, Major Incident, Problem, Change, Knowledge, Service Request, and Configuration Management — ideally on ServiceNow

• Experience designing or reviewing contact center/telephony solutions (AWS Connect or equivalent) as a secondary/contributing skill

• Strong stakeholder management and the ability to communicate architecture trade-offs to both technical teams and account/customer governance

• Experience operating under a managed-services SOW with defined coverage windows, deadband/volumetric clauses, and multi-tower delivery teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a life-sciences/pharma environment with GxP-relevant architecture and change-control rigor

• Architect-level certification such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, VCAP, or CCDP/CCDE

• ITIL 4 Managing Professional or equivalent

• Prior experience as a technical escalation point across a distributed, multi-tower managed services delivery team

Representative Tools & Technologies

Azure, AWS, VMware vSphere/ESXi, Windows Server, Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu), Cohesity, Okta, Active Directory, Entra ID, Cisco (switching/firewall/wireless), Microsoft Intune, Microsoft 365 (Exchange/SharePoint/Teams), Box, Zoom, AWS Connect, ServiceNow

Recruiter

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