Enterprise Cloud & Infrastructure Architect

This strategic Enterprise Cloud and Infrastructure Architect expert is responsible for the design, oversight, and advancement of large-scale infrastructure across both on-premises data centers and a leading cloud platform in a highly available, secure, multi-tenant environment. The primary focus is on the organization's main cloud platform, with an expectation to maintain familiarity with other major public cloud providers to support acquired environments and advise on multi-cloud strategies. This role manages the hybrid architecture that connects existing server, storage, virtualization, and identity platforms to the cloud, participates in architecture review boards, leads infrastructure strategy for integration initiatives, and defines reference architectures for scalable, resilient, and cost-effective solutions.

The expert collaborates closely with Security, Engineering, Operations, Enterprise Architecture, Application Teams, and Business Leadership to ensure cloud solutions align with organizational standards, regulatory requirements, operational excellence principles, and business objectives.

This individual combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership, coaching, and communication skills, serving as both a trusted technical advisor and a mentor to engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Cloud Strategy & Architecture
  • Design and maintain enterprise cloud architecture standards, patterns, and governance frameworks.
  • Develop and maintain reference architecture that can be built by engineering teams and operationalized by support organizations.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption strategies aligned with business objectives.
  • Ensure architectural alignment with enterprise standards for scalability, availability, resiliency, security, and cost optimization.
  • Define cloud landing zones, subscription strategies, management group hierarchies, and governance models.
  • Lead architecture reviews and approvals through participation in architecture review boards.
  • Serve as the technical authority for infrastructure-related architectural decisions.
  • Define hybrid architecture standards governing how on-premises data center, colocation, and cloud environments interoperate.
  • Maintain working knowledge of other major public cloud platforms and provide comparative guidance on service equivalency, workload placement, portability, and cost when multi-cloud scenarios arise.
• Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Lead cloud infrastructure due diligence activities during acquisitions.
  • Design integration and migration strategies for acquired organizations.
  • Develop cloud tenant integration, migration, and coexistence architectures.
  • Define cloud onboarding frameworks that accelerate integration efforts.
  • Assess inherited cloud environments and establish remediation, consolidation, and modernization roadmaps.
  • Lead infrastructure consolidation and rationalization initiatives.
  • Assess acquired on-premises environments and define the migration path to the target hybrid or cloud state.
• Cloud Infrastructure Architecture
  • Design enterprise solutions across various cloud services including compute, networking, storage, identity, security, monitoring, observability, backup, and disaster recovery.
  • Design highly available and fault-tolerant architecture utilizing availability zones, regional redundancy, disaster recovery strategies, multi-region architecture, and business continuity planning.
• On-Premises & Hybrid Infrastructure Architecture
  • Design and govern on-premises infrastructure architecture across compute, virtualization, storage, backup, and data center facilities.
  • Own hybrid identity architecture ensuring consistent authentication and access control across environments.
  • Define hybrid connectivity architecture, including connectivity, network segmentation, and firewall integration between data center and cloud.
  • Establish workload placement and rationalization criteria with clear cost, risk, and dependency analysis.
  • Architect migration approaches for on-premises workloads moving to the cloud.
  • Define end-of-life and end-of-support refresh strategy for legacy infrastructure.
• Automation & Infrastructure as Code
  • Establish Infrastructure-as-Code standards and architectural patterns.
  • Familiarity with automation tools and DevOps practices.
  • Define reusable infrastructure modules and deployment frameworks.
  • Promote automation-first principles across infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management.
  • Partner with engineering teams to establish CI/CD pipelines for cloud infrastructure deployments.
  • Ensure configuration consistency, repeatability, and compliance through automation.
• Security & Compliance
  • Collaborate with Cybersecurity teams to design secure cloud environments utilizing security principles.
  • Ensure architecture alignment with regulatory, compliance, and security requirements.
  • Design solutions leveraging various security and compliance tools.
  • Participate in threat modeling and architectural risk assessments.
  • Ensure security controls are integrated into design patterns from inception.
• Operational Excellence
  • Design enterprise architecture with operational supportability as a core requirement.
  • Partner with operations teams to ensure smooth solution transitions into production support.
  • Define monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability requirements.
  • Establish performance, scalability, and reliability standards.
  • Drive cloud cost optimization and best practices.
• Leadership Initiative & Mentoring
  • Mentor engineers, architects, and technical leads.
  • Promote a collaborative, coaching-oriented culture across technology teams.
  • Facilitate architecture reviews, design workshops, and technical strategy discussions.
  • Translate complex technical concepts into business-focused recommendations for senior leadership and executive stakeholders.
  • Build alignment across technical teams, business units, and external partners.

Qualifications

• Required
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Relevant cloud platform certification.
  • 10 years of progressive infrastructure engineering, architecture, or cloud experience.
  • 5 years architecting enterprise-scale cloud environments.
  • Experience leading large-scale on-premises to cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
  • Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and enterprise integration activities.
  • Experience participating in architecture review boards or enterprise governance bodies.
  • Experience developing enterprise reference architectures and technology standards.
  • Direct experience operating in a regulated environment with familiarity with infrastructure controls required to satisfy audit requirements.
  • Experience translating technical complexity into clear, outcome-oriented language for stakeholders and leadership.
  • Deep experience in core services, identity & tenant architecture, automation & DevOps, security, and observability/operations.
  • Deep on-premises infrastructure architecture experience.
  • Experience designing hybrid architecture connecting on-premises environments to the cloud.
  • Working knowledge of at least one additional public cloud platform, including networking, storage, and identity services.
• Preferred
  • Experience with enterprise monitoring platforms.
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and automation tooling.
  • Experience in multi-entity or post-M&A environments with tenant consolidation or rationalization exposure.
  • ITIL Foundation or equivalent ITSM training.
  • Experience with data center exit, consolidation, or colocation migration programs.
  • Certification or demonstrated hands-on delivery experience on additional cloud platforms.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance
• Retirement plan

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Rate of pay within the stated range will depend on the qualification of the applicant.