Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Architect.

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect

JOB Purpose:

The Infrastructure Architect is responsible for designing building and maintaining the organizations core IT infrastructure including on-premises cloud hybrid and edge environments. This role defines the architectural vision standards and roadmaps that ensure scalability reliability security and cost efficiency across compute storage networking and virtualization platforms. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strategic thinking acting as a technical lead who bridges business requirements and infrastructure solutions while mentoring engineering teams and driving modernization initiatives.

Qualifications

Bachelors degree in computer science Information Technology Engineering or a related field (masters preferred).

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Google Professional Cloud Architect.

VMware VCDX/VCAP Cisco CCIE/CCNP or equivalent networking certifications.

TOGAF Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD) or Hashi Corp Terraform certifications are a plus.

Experience

812 years of experience in IT infrastructure systems engineering or cloud architecture with at least 35 years in an architect role.

Proven experience designing large-scale mission-critical infrastructure in hybrid or multi-cloud environments.

Hands-on background in systems administration networking or virtualization prior to architecture roles.

Skills

Excellent analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS Azure G42) virtualization (VMware Hyper-V KVM) and containers (Docker Kubernetes).

Strong knowledge of networking (SDN VPC load balancing DNS firewalls VPN BGP) and storage (SAN NAS object storage).

Proficiency with IaC and automation tools (Terraform Ansible Puppet Chef).

Solid understanding of security architecture identity management (IAM AD SSO) and zero-trust principles.

Experience with cost modeling capacity planning and vendor management.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. Infrastructure Architecture & Design

Design end-to-end infrastructure solutions across on-premises cloud (AWS Azure G42) and hybrid environments.

Develop reference architectures standards and blueprints for compute storage networking virtualization and containerization.

Define and maintain the infrastructure roadmap aligned with business strategy growth projections and technology trends.

Evaluate emerging technologies (e.g. IaC Kubernetes serverless edge computing) and recommend adoption where appropriate.

2. Cloud & Platform Strategy

Lead cloud migration multi-cloud and hybrid cloud architecture initiatives.

Design scalable highly available and disaster-resilient platforms (IaaS PaaS container platforms).

Optimize cloud spend through right-sizing reserved capacity and architectural efficiency.

Establish landing zones network topologies identity integration and governance guardrails.

3. Performance Availability & Resilience

Define and enforce SLAs SLOs and SLIs for critical infrastructure services.

Architect high-availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions including RTO/RPO targets and regular testing.

Conduct capacity planning and performance tuning to support current and future demand.

Lead root cause analysis (RCA) for major infrastructure incidents and drive architectural improvements.

4. Security & Compliance Integration

Embed security-by-design principles into all infrastructure architectures (zero trust least privilege segmentation).

Ensure infrastructure meets regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g. ISO 27001 SOC 2 GDPR HIPAA PCI-DSS).

Collaborate with Security & Compliance teams on vulnerability management patching strategy and audit readiness.

5. Automation & Operational Excellence

Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform Ansible CloudFormation or Bicep.

Define monitoring observability and logging standards (e.g. Prometheus Grafana Datadog ELK).

Reduce operational toil through automation and self-service platforms.

6. Technical Leadership & Collaboration

Act as a subject matter expert and escalation point for infrastructure engineering teams.

Mentor engineers and promote best practices in architecture documentation and design reviews.

Partner with application data security and network teams to ensure end-to-end solution coherence.

Present architectural proposals and trade-off analyses to technical and executive stakeholders.

7. Vendor & Cost Management

Evaluate and select infrastructure vendors platforms and managed services.

Negotiate technical requirements and support licensing/hardware procurement decisions.