Infrastructure Architect

HNI Corporation is a global family of brands for the workplace and home dedicated to enhancing the spaces where we live, work, and gather. We pride ourselves on fostering an environment where we make a positive impact on others; upholding our beliefs in integrity, inclusion and belonging.

Your Impact Starts the Day You Do!

What We Need:

We are looking for an Infrastructure Architect to join our organization in Muscatine, Iowa.  The Infrastructure Architect will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing a robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure solution that meets the evolving needs of the organization. This position requires expertise in network architecture, data center compute and storage, cloud architecture, and foundational IT services.

The ideal candidate will be able to seamlessly integrate these components to support business operations, ensuring high availability, performance, and security. 

What You Will Do:

• Design and architect enterprise-level network infrastructures, ensuring scalability, security, and performance across data centers, branches, and remote sites.
• Evaluate and select network technologies, including LAN/WAN, wireless, firewalls, VPN, and SD-WAN solutions.
• Collaborate with network engineers to implement solutions for routing, switching, load balancing, and high availability.
• Design and manage network segmentation and micro-segmentation for secure environments.
• Optimize the network to support cloud and hybrid cloud architectures.

• Architect data center compute environments, focusing on virtualization technologies (VMware, Hyper-V, etc.), server hardware, and software-defined infrastructure.
• Design and optimize storage solutions, including SAN, NAS, and hyper-converged infrastructures.
• Work with system administrators to ensure compute and storage solutions meet performance and capacity needs.
• Lead efforts to refresh legacy compute and storage hardware, ensuring compatibility with emerging technologies and applications.
• Ensure disaster recovery and business continuity strategies are integrated into compute and storage designs.

• Design cloud and hybrid-cloud solutions using public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and private cloud infrastructures.
• Develop strategies for cloud migration and workload optimization.
• Architect scalable and secure cloud services, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models.
• Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance and data protection within cloud environments.
• Monitor and optimize cloud usage and costs, implementing automation where applicable (Infrastructure as Code).

• Design foundational IT services such as DNS, DHCP, IP management, NTP, and authentication services (Active Directory, LDAP).
• Collaborate on the integration of identity and access management (IAM) solutions.
• Ensure the implementation of best practices for security, including role-based access control, multi-factor authentication, and encryption.
• Lead the development and documentation of infrastructure architecture blueprints and standards.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and evaluate their applicability within the organization’s infrastructure.

• Work closely with application, security, and DevOps teams to ensure infrastructure solutions meet cross-functional needs.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on infrastructure architecture in discussions with senior management and business stakeholders.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to junior engineers and architects within the team.

What You Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field (Master’s preferred).
• 7+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, with at least 3 years in an architecture or senior engineering role.
• Expertise in network architecture, including routing, switching, firewalls, load balancing, and VPN technologies.
• Strong background in data center design, including server virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V), and