Infrastructure Architect

Role & responsibilities

• Design and lead the architecture of secure, scalable, highly available, and resilient enterprise IT infrastructure.
• Develop infrastructure strategies, technology roadmaps, standards, and reference architectures aligned with business requirements.
• Design and implement on-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Architect compute, storage, networking, virtualization, backup, disaster recovery, and data center solutions.
• Design cloud infrastructure solutions using AWS, Azure, GCP, or hybrid-cloud technologies.
• Define infrastructure capacity, performance, availability, scalability, and disaster-recovery requirements.
• Lead infrastructure modernization, cloud migration, data-center transformation, and technology refresh initiatives.
• Design and implement Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, automation, and CI/CD practices.
• Establish infrastructure security controls including network segmentation, IAM, encryption, firewalls, vulnerability management, and access controls.
• Design high-availability, fault-tolerant, backup, disaster-recovery, and business-continuity solutions.
• Collaborate with application development, DevOps, security, networking, database, cloud, and operations teams.
• Conduct infrastructure assessments, architecture reviews, capacity planning, and technology evaluations.
• Identify and resolve complex infrastructure, performance, availability, and scalability issues.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions for infrastructure environments.
• Evaluate emerging infrastructure and cloud technologies and recommend solutions based on business and technical requirements.
• Optimize infrastructure costs, resource utilization, operational efficiency, and performance.
• Maintain infrastructure architecture documentation, network diagrams, standards, and technical procedures.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, and operations teams.

Preferred candidate profile

• 5 to 10 years of experience in infrastructure engineering, systems administration, cloud engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure architecture.
• Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale infrastructure solutions.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or hybrid-cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of Linux and Windows Server operating systems, virtualization, compute, storage, and networking.
• Experience with VMware, Hyper-V, Kubernetes, Docker, and modern infrastructure technologies.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VPN, routing, switching, firewalls, proxies, and load balancers.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent technologies.
• Proficiency with configuration-management and automation tools such as Ansible, PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
• Strong knowledge of backup, disaster recovery, high availability, fault tolerance, business continuity, and capacity planning.
• Experience designing infrastructure security solutions including IAM, Active Directory, network security, encryption, vulnerability management, and security controls.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or equivalent tools.
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, Git, automation, and infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Experience leading cloud migrations, data-center transformation, infrastructure modernization, or large-scale technology projects.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to evaluate technologies, make architecture decisions, and balance performance, reliability, security, and cost.
• Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership across infrastructure and operations teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related field; Master's degree is an advantage.
• Relevant certifications such as AWS/Azure/GCP Architect, VMware, CCNP, ITIL, Kubernetes, or TOGAF are preferred.