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Description
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Solutions Architect to join our Infrastructure & Operations organization. In this strategic role, you will design, govern, and drive the implementation of scalable, secure, and resilient enterprise infrastructure solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
As a trusted technical advisor, you will translate business requirements into robust technology solutions while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards, cybersecurity requirements, operational excellence objectives, and long-term technology roadmaps.
This role requires deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, strong stakeholder management skills, and hands-on architectural leadership.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Architecture & Solution Design
- Design scalable, secure, highly available infrastructure solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
- Develop and maintain enterprise architecture standards, reference architectures, design principles, and governance frameworks.
- Produce high-quality architecture documentation, including solution designs, system diagrams, integration patterns, and technical specifications.
- Ensure infrastructure solutions comply with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend innovative solutions that improve operational efficiency, resilience, and business value.
Strategic Technology Planning
- Collaborate with Infrastructure & Operations leadership to define and evolve the enterprise infrastructure roadmap.
- Translate business strategies into scalable technical architectures and implementation plans.
- Perform technology assessments, feasibility studies, and cost-benefit analyses.
- Identify opportunities for automation, platform modernization, consolidation, and operational optimization.
Technical Leadership
- Provide technical leadership across infrastructure programmes and strategic initiatives.
- Lead Proof of Concept (PoC) activities and technology evaluations.
- Review and approve solution designs created by engineering teams.
- Act as the highest technical escalation point for complex infrastructure challenges.
- Mentor engineers and promote architectural best practices across the organization.
Stakeholder Management
- Partner closely with Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure Engineering, Security, Application Development, Operations, and business stakeholders.
- Present architectural recommendations and investment proposals to senior leadership.
- Facilitate architecture review boards, technical workshops, and governance meetings.
- Build strong relationships across technical and business teams to ensure successful project delivery.
Continuous Improvement
- Oversee the successful implementation of approved infrastructure solutions.
- Drive automation initiatives to improve operational efficiency and reliability.
- Support disaster recovery, business continuity, resilience, and high availability planning.
- Monitor industry trends and identify opportunities to enhance infrastructure capabilities.
Requirements
Required Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
- Relevant industry certifications are considered a strong advantage.
Professional Experience
- Minimum 7 years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Operations, or similar technical roles.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in Solutions Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, or Technical Architecture within enterprise environments.
- Proven track record of designing and implementing enterprise-scale infrastructure solutions in complex enterprise environments.
- Experience working in highly regulated and security-conscious organizations is an advantage.
Technical Skills
Required
- Deep expertise in enterprise infrastructure architecture across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
- Strong knowledge of virtualization technologies, particularly VMware.
- Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration platforms, especially Kubernetes.
- Solid understanding of enterprise networking, including routing, switching, firewalls, DNS, load balancing, and software-defined networking.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise storage technologies, backup, disaster recovery, and high availability architectures.
- Deep expertise with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure and/or Google Cloud) and cloud-native architectures.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps methodologies, automation frameworks, and monitoring/observability platforms.
- Strong understanding of enterprise security principles, infrastructure governance, and architectural best practices.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with enterprise automation and orchestration platforms.
- Familiarity with Zero Trust architecture and modern cybersecurity frameworks.
- Experience designing multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Ability to lead cross-functional technical teams and influence strategic technology decisions.
What We Offer
- Challenging enterprise-scale projects within international environments.
- Opportunity to influence strategic technology decisions.
- Flexible hybrid working model.
- Collaborative and highly skilled technical teams.
- Professional development and certification support.
- Competitive compensation and attractive benefits package.
