Infrastructure Architect – Enterprise Architecture Lead

About the role

The Infrastructure Architect is a senior leader within the Enterprise Architecture function, responsible for defining and driving the organization’s infrastructure strategy across cloud, on‑premises, and hybrid environments. This role ensures scalable, resilient, and high‑performing platforms that support digital transformation initiatives.

Key responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise infrastructure target state, including principles, standards, patterns, and reference models.
• Design and evolve infrastructure across compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and cloud platforms.
• Lead modernization initiatives such as cloud adoption, hybrid architectures, and container platforms.
• Establish and enforce architecture standards and guardrails for consistency, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with application, data, and platform teams to ensure seamless integration of infrastructure services.
• Evaluate and select technologies, vendors, and platforms aligned with enterprise strategy.
• Drive capacity planning, performance optimization, and high‑availability design.
• Develop and oversee disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
• Define and implement Infrastructure as Code and automation frameworks (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Maintain architecture documentation, reference architectures, standards, and roadmaps.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, data residency, and operational requirements.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering and operations teams.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.
• 15+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering/operations, with 5–7 years in architecture roles.
• Proven ability to lead large‑scale infrastructure transformation projects.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Relevant certifications such as AWS/Azure Architect, CCNP/CCIE are a plus.

Required skills

• Compute platforms: Unix/AIX, Linux/RHEL
• Networking: Cisco
• Storage: Dell EMC, Pure Storage
• Backup solutions: Data Domain
• Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, OCI
• Virtualization and container platforms: OpenShift, Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as Code tools: Terraform, Ansible
• DevOps and platform engineering practices
• Enterprise architecture frameworks: TOGAF (preferred)
• ITIL and Agile/DevOps methodologies