Infrastructure Architect

Position summary

Key responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end infrastructure architecture and solution design against business, application, security, availability, performance, and operational requirements.
• Develop and maintain HLD and LLD documentation.
• Translate requirements into architecture, technical specifications, sizing, configurations, and implementation requirements.
• Design solutions spanning compute, virtualization, storage, backup, networking, operating systems, databases, cloud, security, monitoring, and management platforms.
• Define infrastructure topology, interactions, dependencies, integration points, and deployment patterns.
• Create logical and physical architecture diagrams covering network connectivity, security zones, data flows, HA, and DR.
• Size infrastructure and plan capacity for CPU, memory, storage, bandwidth, IOPS, backup, and future growth.
• Define HA, DR, backup, replication, RPO, and RTO requirements.
• Evaluate infrastructure technologies and make recommendations based on requirements, scalability, compatibility, performance, and supportability.
• Review BOM/BOQ and validate technical specifications, quantities, capacity, and licensing dependencies.
• Coordinate with application, security, network, database, cloud, vendor, OEM, and implementation teams; define deployment and migration prerequisites.
• Identify risks, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and architecture decisions; ensure standards alignment and govern implementation, migration, testing, commissioning, and transition to operations.

Technical scope

• Enterprise infrastructure architecture, HLD, LLD, and solution design.
• Compute, virtualization, storage, backup, networking, operating systems, databases, cloud, and security.
• VMware vSphere/vCenter, Microsoft Hyper-V, Windows Server, Linux/Unix, HPE, and Dell.
• SAN, NAS, object storage, enterprise backup, and replication.
• High availability, disaster recovery, RPO/RTO, and capacity planning.
• Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
• LAN/WAN, routing, switching, network segmentation, VLANs, subnets, and Active Directory.
• Infrastructure monitoring, management, security, sizing, performance management, and enterprise system integration.
• Architecture diagrams, technical documentation, and BOM/BOQ review.

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Typically 7+ years in infrastructure engineering, infrastructure architecture, or solution design, including 3+ years in an architect or similar role.
• Strong hands-on experience designing enterprise infrastructure solutions.
• Experience producing HLD/LLD documentation, technical specifications, and architecture diagrams.
• Experience across compute, virtualization, storage, networking, backup, cloud, security, and disaster recovery.
• Experience with infrastructure sizing, capacity planning, HA/DR design, and RPO/RTO requirements.
• Experience reviewing and validating infrastructure BOM/BOQ and technical specifications.
• Experience supporting implementation, migration, testing, and transition activities.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure security, scalability, availability, performance, and operational requirements.
• Strong technical problem-solving, architecture decision-making, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Relevant Cloud, VMware, Microsoft, or Infrastructure certification.
• ITIL 4 Foundation or equivalent knowledge.

Preferred qualifications

• Advanced degree in a relevant technical field.
• TOGAF or equivalent architecture framework certification.
• Experience designing and delivering large-scale enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Experience working with major infrastructure OEMs and technology vendors.
• Experience providing architecture governance across the infrastructure design and implementation lifecycle.