Senior IT Infrastructure Architect

Job Description: Senior IT Infrastructure Architect || New York

Position Overview 
The Senior IT Infrastructure Architect is responsible for designing, modernizing, and optimizing enterprise infrastructure platforms across on‑premises, hybrid-cloud, and native-cloud environments. This role provides strategic architectural leadership, ensures operational excellence, and guides the adoption of modern infrastructure frameworks, automation, observability, and governance practices that enable secure, scalable, and resilient IT services. 

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Architecture & Design 
Aligns infrastructure technology with future business needs, leading the strategy for technology adoption, upgrades, and modernization. 
Develops comprehensive blueprints and high-level designs for software, hardware, and network infrastructure, ensuring they meet business and technical requirements. 
Define infrastructure as code (IaC) & automation tool standards for declarative provisioning and infrastructure lifecycle 
Lead modernization initiatives including automation, Infrastructure‑as‑Code, containerization, monitoring/observability, and AIOps capabilities.  
Develops and tests disaster recovery and business continuity plans to ensure systems are resilient and available. 
Evaluates vendor solutions, selects technology, and collaborates with IT teams to guide the implementation of technical standards

Required Skills & Qualifications

BS in computer science or equivalent field of study 
10+ years of progressive experience in IT Infrastructure Engineering or Architecture. 
Deep expertise in hybrid cloud (Azure), virtualization, Windows/Linux platforms, networking, storage systems, and automation frameworks. 
Strong background in ITSM, service delivery, and operational workflows (ITIL, incident/event/change management). 
Hands‑on experience with IaC services, CI/CD pipelining, GIT, Jenkins, Python, JSON, YAML, Terraform, jfrog artifactory, monitoring/observability platforms. 
Experience with enterprise-level IT infrastructure planning and development. 
Strong background in TCP/IP services, platform services, network communications protocols and services, security services. 
Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills with ability to translate complex concepts for technical and non‑technical audiences.  
Technology certifications such as Azure, ITIL, TOGAF.