Infrastructure Architect

Position: Infrastructure Architect 
Location:  Dallas, TX (Onsite)

Note: - Good experience with Azure services as well

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.
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Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture
o    Lead the design, implementation, and governance of enterprise IT infrastructure across on premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
o    Translate business requirements into robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure architectures that support current and future growth.
o    Ensure infrastructure solutions align with organizational standards, industry best practices, and compliance requirements.
Technology Strategy & Roadmap
o    Continuously evaluate industry trends and emerging technologies to keep the infrastructure landscape modern, competitive, and future-ready.
o    Define and maintain short term and long term infrastructure architecture roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business and IT strategy.
o    Provide architectural direction for modernization initiatives, legacy transformation, and digital adoption programs.
Capacity Planning & Resilience
o    Perform capacity planning for compute, storage, network, and cloud resources to support enterprise workloads efficiently.
o    Architect and oversee data retention strategies, backup solutions, high availability (HA), and disaster recovery (DR) plans, ensuring minimal downtime and business continuity.
o    Regularly test and validate DR and failover strategies.
Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure
o    Design and manage cloud-based infrastructure solutions using platforms such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, ensuring optimal performance, security, and cost efficiency.
o    Provide expertise across IaaS, PaaS, and hybrid cloud models.
o    Assess customers’ existing application and infrastructure landscapes and define end-to-end cloud migration roadmaps, including re-hosting, re-platforming, and modernization strategies.
o    Implement automation and configuration management using tools such as Ansible, Chef, or equivalent technologies.
Security & Compliance
o    Develop, implement, and enforce IT infrastructure security policies and procedures across environments.
o    Ensure infrastructure designs meet security, compliance, and regulatory standards, including access control, data protection, and vulnerability management.
o    Collaborate closely with security teams to proactively mitigate risks and strengthen infrastructure security posture.
Cost Optimization & Operational Excellence
o    Architect cost effective infrastructure solutions that balance performance, availability, and budget constraints.
o    Drive infrastructure optimization initiatives, including right sizing, automation, and adoption of cloud-native capabilities.
o    Support operations teams with L3 expertise, ensuring rapid resolution of complex infrastructure issues.
Database & Data Platform Expertise
o    Provide architectural guidance for Relational, NoSQL, and Big Data platforms, including: 
    Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL
    Hadoop, Spark, and other open source big data technologies
o    Ensure data platforms are designed for scalability, performance, reliability, and security.

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Technical Skill Set
•    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