Senior Infrastructure Architect (Information Technology) - Project Hire

JOB SUMMARY

The Senior Infrastructure Architect is responsible for defining and governing enterprise infrastructure patterns across on-prem datacenters and public cloud. This role spans compute, storage, networking, virtualization/containers, IaaS/PaaS, and SaaS integrations, from bare metal through cloud-native, ensuring secure, resilient, and scalable designs. Partners with other teams to drive standardization and best practices around automation (IaC), zero-trust controls, monitoring/observability, backup/DR, and lifecycle/capacity planning; leads cost optimization and vendor/technology selection. The architect a part of the architecture review board and is responsible for reference architectures and roadmaps and enforce compliance to reference designs. The individual works with architecture and technology leadership to drive a global standardized infrastructure vision and roadmap. This leader must be able to inspire UDX culture.

MAJOR

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Hybrid Infrastructure Architecture & Standards – Set and enforce reference architectures, patterns and guardrails across on-prem datacenters and public cloud compute (compute, storage, network, virtualization/containers, SaaS). Own the end-to-end stack, from bare metal and hypervisors to IaaS/PaaS and SaaS integrations.

• Platform Engineer, Performance & Automation – Drive Infrastructure-as-Code, configuration management and pipeline-drive delivery. Partner with NBC Operations & Technology teams, and UDX infrastructure and DevOps teams to align on patterns, reference architectures and remove manual drift. Standardize performance baselines, load testing and tuning.

• Reliability, Observability & Continuity – Architect for availability, performance and scalability with clear SLOs, capacity planning and lifecycle management. Specify logging, metrics and tracing standards. Ensure backup/restore and DR strategies are in place and ensure operational excellence with runbooks.

• Capacity Planning, Governance & Roadmaps – Participate in architecture review board, maintain infrastructure technology roadmaps to support annual planning and long-range planning. Help reservations/savings plans and hardware refresh with demand curves. Partner with other teams to ensure cost modeling/FinOps is performed on new designs. Evaluate vendors and standardize on approved services to control sprawl and total cost of ownership.

• Understands and actively participates in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established UO policy, procedures, training and team member involvement activities.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, systems engineering, information technology or similar preferred.

EXPERIENCE

• 9+ years in technology delivery and implementation.

• 7+ years’ experience in global/large scale/enterprise solution and platform development.

• 7+ years’ hands on experience with Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS) implementations.

• Extensive experience in front-end and back-end integration design.

• Extensive Experience in executive communication and collaboration.

• Experience in stakeholder and partner communication.

• Experience with the software development lifecycle;

• or equivalent combination of education and experience.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws.

• Extensive experience designing and deployment of cloud and on-prem infrastructure

• Experience evaluating architecture designs and making recommendations for infrastructure implementation, deployment and provisioning.

• Repeated experience with UML artifacts.

• A technical background with an understanding of high-level networks, routers, switches, firewalls, BGP, and SANs.

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code deployments.

• Experience with capacity planning across cloud and on-prem infrastructure

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