Infrastructure Architect

12-15 years of IT experience, including substantial experience in infrastructure or enterprise architecture roles within complex organizations.

Demonstrated architecture experience across hybrid cloud, data center, modern workplace, enterprise network, platform engineering, and infrastructure operations.

Strong knowledge of Azure, AWS, or GCP; virtualization and container platforms; enterprise networking and SD-WAN; workplace technologies; observability platforms; automation and infrastructure-as-code.

Practical understanding of microservices infrastructure patterns, Kubernetes ecosystems, APIs, DevSecOps integration, site reliability engineering concepts, and cloud-native operational models.

Ability to design for availability, scalability, performance, recoverability, supportability, security, and cost, and to explain architecture trade-offs clearly.

Working knowledge of IT security architecture and controls, without requiring deep specialist cybersecurity credentials.

Experience with ITIL-aligned service management, managed services, transition, operational readiness, capacity planning, and continual service improvement.

Strong stakeholder management, consulting, facilitation, documentation, and presentation skills, with the ability to influence senior technical and business leaders.