Senior Systems Architect
Role Overview
The Senior Systems Architect is a senior technical leader responsible for the architecture, engineering, standardization, and evolution of enterprise compute and infrastructure platforms.
This role requires broad hands-on expertise across enterprise virtualization, Windows and Linux, server infrastructure, automation, containers, and compute integration with storage and networking.
The successful candidate will be equally comfortable developing architecture strategy, evaluating new technologies, creating automation, and troubleshooting complex production issues.
A primary objective of the role is transforming infrastructure operations from manual administration into standardized, automated, policy-driven platform services.
The architect will establish technical standards, lead modernization efforts, reduce operational complexity, and improve reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
The role works closely with Data Center Operations, Storage Architecture, Network Engineering, Security, Cloud Engineering, Application teams, Manufacturing, and technology vendors.
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Compensation & Benefits Details
- An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
- The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.
- If your position is non-exempt, you are eligible for overtime pay pursuant to company policy and applicable laws. You may also be eligible for shift differential pay, depending on the shift to which you are assigned.
- You will be eligible to be considered for bonuses under either WD’s Short Term Incentive Plan (“STI Plan”) or the Sales Incentive Plan (“SIP”) which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance, depending on your role and your performance. You may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to WD's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program; employee stock purchase plan; and the WD Savings 401(k) Plan.
- Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
- Notice To Candidates: Please be aware that WD and its subsidiaries will never request payment as a condition for applying for a position or receiving an offer of employment. Should you encounter any such requests, please report it immediately to WD Ethics Helpline or email [email protected] .
Requirements
- 12+ years of progressive enterprise infrastructure engineering, architecture, or closely related experience, including substantial hands-on responsibility for production environments.
- Demonstrated experience designing and supporting large-scale, business-critical enterprise infrastructure.
- Deep experience with one or more enterprise virtualization platforms such as Hyper-V, VMware, Nutanix AHV, KVM, or comparable technologies, with the ability to rapidly learn additional platforms.
- Strong enterprise experience with Windows Server and Linux.
- Experience with container technologies and orchestration platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, or comparable platforms.
- Significant experience with enterprise server platforms such as HPE, Dell, or comparable technologies.
- Strong understanding of storage and networking sufficient to design and troubleshoot compute integration with those technologies.
- Demonstrated infrastructure automation experience using PowerShell, Python, Ansible, Terraform, APIs, or comparable technologies.
- Experience applying Infrastructure as Code, source control, CI/CD, configuration management, or similar software-engineering practices to infrastructure.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot complex issues across multiple infrastructure domains.
- Demonstrated ability to create technical standards and translate architecture into successful production implementations.
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