Infrastructure Architect - W2

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Role: IT Infrastructure Architect

Location/s:
Multiple Locations in US (Alpharetta, GA; Charlotte, NC; Conshohocken, PA; Garden City, NY; Morristown, NJ; New York, NY; Purchase, NY) - Hybrid (3 days a week onsite from any of these locations)

Job Type: W2 Contract

The Infrastructure Architect is a senior-level position responsible for designing and implementing IT systems to support business goals. This role involves leading infrastructure integration, optimizing technologies, collaborating with enterprise architecture teams, and ensuring systems meet compliance and performance standards.

• Work as part of IT Integration teams to plan and execute Infrastructure integration activities related to user experience and collaboration migration, datacenter/cloud design and workload migration, AD/Entra  Office 365 migration and consolidation.
• Work in conjunction with enterprise architecture on design, strategy, and standards; documents and publishes appropriate infrastructure architecture principles and standards, position papers, blueprints, best practices, patterns, and frameworks.
• Set strategic direction for various infrastructure technologies such as public cloud, directory services, collaboration services, network, storage, server, database and security best practices.
• Ensure that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from each other and business and IT strategies.
• Serve as level-4 escalation point for operations team and assist with problem resolution and root cause analysis as needed.
• Plan for life and refresh cycles. Ensure that architected solutions work in line with application, network, desktop, server, storage, etc.
• Identify, implement, and monitor best practices for infrastructure technology architecture.
• Review software requirements and designs architecture for high availability and disaster recovery as per business requirements.

• Minimum 12 years of IT Infrastructure-related experience, at least 5 of which needs to be working as an architect.
• Ability to work with and lead Infrastructure and Dev Ops teams towards IT infrastructure solutions.
• Expert knowledge of standard infrastructure components such as Windows-based servers, enterprise network components, public cloud Infrastructure/PaaS technologies, Microsoft Exchange/Office 365, Microsoft Active Directory/Entra , Microsoft SQL Server, Server Virtualization, Enterprise SAN Storage.
• Cloud certifications in Azure or AWS including architecture level certification.

• Knowledgeable of enterprise application Infrastructure design & several years’ experience creating enterprise Infrastructure architecture and solutions.
• Ability to work with and present solution ideas to C-level executives.
• Experience in leading projects.
• Experience with merger and acquisition IT Infrastructure planning.
• Experience in IT Consulting is preferred.

Mid-Senior level

Contract

Information Technology

IT Services and IT Consulting