Senior Infrastructure Architect

Job Description

Senior Infrastructure Architect

Location: Remote

Type: Contract

Compensation: $90-98/hr. (W2)

Top Must-Haves:

• Senior Infrastructure Architecture with Deep Compute & Virtualization Experience
• Hands-On Technical Engineering & Troubleshooting Ability
• Platform Ownership & Lifecycle Management Mindset

The Senior Infrastructure Architect – Platform Engineering will be embedded on the OT Compute team, and be responsible for the design, implementation, administration, and continuous improvement of compute platforms supporting critical Operational Technology (OT) environments.

This role is a senior hands-on Architecture and Engineering position focused on enterprise server hardware, virtualization platforms, and associated infrastructure services. The successful candidate will lead platform design, lifecycle management, standardization efforts, and operational improvements while remaining actively involved in implementation, support, and troubleshooting activities.

A significant portion of the initial engagement will focus on lifecycle management initiatives including hardware standardization, supportability tracking, inventory governance, refresh planning, platform upgrades, and operational maturity improvements. The ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise with a passion for building and operating scalable, supportable, and sustainable infrastructure platforms.

This position requires an Architect who can balance technical design, hands-on implementation, operational support, and lifecycle management considerations when making platform decisions. Solutions should be designed not only to meet immediate business needs but also to support long-term maintainability, reliability, supportability, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Compute Platform Engineering

• Design, implement, administer, and support enterprise compute infrastructure platforms supporting OT workloads.

• Deploy and maintain physical server infrastructure across data center and remote site environments.

• Implement and support virtualization platforms and associated management systems.

• Perform platform upgrades, migrations, lifecycle activities, and remediation efforts.

• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and perform root cause analysis.

• Support highly available and mission-critical OT infrastructure environments.

• Lifecycle Management & Standardization

• Support lifecycle planning activities for compute hardware and virtualization platforms.

• Develop and maintain standard hardware configurations and approved platform offerings.

• Identify lifecycle risks associated with aging infrastructure and unsupported technologies.

• Support hardware refresh initiatives and platform modernization efforts.

• Improve inventory accuracy, supportability tracking, and lifecycle visibility across the compute portfolio.

• Contribute to lifecycle governance processes and operational reporting.

• Platform Operations & Continuous Improvement

• Develop and maintain engineering standards, operational procedures, and support documentation.

• Improve monitoring, automation, reporting, and operational visibility.

• Drive standardization and operational maturity across compute platforms.

• Identify opportunities to improve reliability, supportability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

• Participate in disaster recovery planning, testing, and operational readiness activities.

• Support continuous improvement initiatives across the OT Compute portfolio.

• Technical Leadership

• Provide technical recommendations regarding compute platforms, hardware standards, lifecycle activities, and operational improvements.

• Collaborate with Windows Services, Networking, Cybersecurity, Architecture, and Operations teams.

• Mentor team members and contribute to engineering best practices.

• Participate in technical evaluations and solution design activities.

• Assist in developing standards and implementation approaches for new platform capabilities.

• Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of infrastructure engineering and architecture experience.

• Strong hands-on experience supporting enterprise compute and virtualization platforms.

• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting production infrastructure environments.

• Strong understanding of enterprise server hardware architecture and lifecycle management.

• Experience planning and executing infrastructure upgrades, refreshes, and modernization initiatives.

• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues in production environments.

• Experience developing operational procedures, standards, and technical documentation.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

• Ability to independently design, implement, support, and improve infrastructure solutions.

• Technical Experience

• Compute & Virtualization: VMware vSphere, KVM

• Operating Systems: Windows Server, RHEL, Ubuntu 18+, Debian 9+

• Infrastructure Services: Enterprise SAN, Enterprise Backup & Recovery Platforms (Rubrik, Avamar, Commvault, etc), Infrastructure as Code (Git, Terraform, Ansible, Itential, etc)

• Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Operational Technology (OT) environments.

• Experience supporting highly available and mission-critical infrastructure platforms.

• Experience developing hardware standards and standard platform offerings.

• Experience leading hardware refresh, platform modernization, or lifecycle management initiatives.

• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management technologies.

• Experience with disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.

• Experience operating within Agile, SAFe, or product-based delivery organizations.

• Preferred Tool

Experience

• ServiceNow, VMware Aria/vCenter, Powershell/Python, Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Kubernetes,

• Success Criteria

Within the first 12 months, this role is expected to:

• Improve lifecycle management practices across the compute portfolio.

• Develop and maintain standardized hardware and virtualization platform offerings.

• Improve visibility into compute platform supportability, lifecycle status, and technology risk.

• Improve inventory accuracy and platform governance.

• Deliver lifecycle and modernization initiatives supporting OT Compute objectives.

• Reduce operational risk associated with aging infrastructure and unsupported technologies.

• Improve platform documentation, engineering standards, and operational processes.

• Contribute directly to the implementation, support, and continuous improvement of OT compute platforms.

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