Technical Architect - Infrastructure

Overview

We are seeking a seasoned Infrastructure Technical Architect to design, architect, and guide the implementation of secure, scalable, and resilient enterprise infrastructure solutions supporting cloud-native applications, data platforms, AI/ML workloads, and mission-critical systems. The Infrastructure Technical Architect will serve as a technical leader responsible for defining infrastructure strategies, architecture standards, modernization roadmaps, and platform solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong communication and leadership skills to help customers modernize infrastructure, optimize operations, and enable future growth.

Contributions

Responsibilities include: 

• Design enterprise infrastructure architectures supporting modern application, data, analytics, and AI ecosystems.
• Define infrastructure standards, reference architectures, best practices, and technical roadmaps.
• Architect cloud, hybrid-cloud, and on-premises infrastructure solutions utilizing AWS, Azure, GCP, and related technologies.
• Design and oversee production, staging, QA, and development environments operating in highly available 24x7 environments.
• Lead infrastructure modernization, cloud migration, and cloud optimization initiatives.
• Design scalable network, compute, storage, virtualization, container, and platform architectures.
• Establish Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and platform engineering strategies to improve operational efficiency and consistency.
• Define resiliency, backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and high-availability architectures.
• Ensure infrastructure architectures align with security, compliance, governance, and cybersecurity requirements.
• Conduct architecture reviews and provide technical leadership to infrastructure, cloud, application, and data engineering teams.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects, Data Architects, Product Managers, Developers, and Cloud Engineers to ensure cohesive end-to-end platform designs.
• Document current-state environments, perform gap analyses, and develop future-state architecture recommendations and implementation roadmaps.
• Support DevSecOps practices by integrating infrastructure automation, security controls, monitoring, and CI/CD processes.
• Leverage virtualization, containerization, and cloud-native technologies to optimize and modernize enterprise platforms.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend infrastructure solutions that improve scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Perform root cause analysis on complex infrastructure and platform issues and recommend long-term architectural improvements.
• Serve as a technical mentor and trusted advisor to project teams and stakeholders.
• Present technical recommendations, architecture decisions, and project status updates to technical and executive audiences.

Qualifications

Required:

• Ability to hold a position of public trust with the U.S. Government.
• Bachelor's degree
• 10+ years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise infrastructure solutions.
• 8+ years of experience architecting cloud and hybrid-cloud environments utilizing AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• 8+ years of experience implementing Infrastructure as Code, automation, and orchestration solutions.
• 8+ years of experience supporting software development and infrastructure delivery within Agile environments.
• Experience designing enterprise infrastructure architectures including networking, compute, storage, virtualization, and cloud services.
• Experience integrating infrastructure platforms with DevSecOps tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment processes.
• Experience designing highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Experience with identity and access management, infrastructure security, and compliance frameworks.
• Experience with Git-based source control platforms including GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket.
• Experience documenting current-state environments, conducting gap analyses, and producing architecture artifacts and technical recommendations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred: 

• Master's Degree in an IT-related field.
• Certifications:
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
  • Microsoft