Technical Architect - Infrastructure

Overview

We are seeking a seasoned Infrastructure Technical Architect to design, architect, and guide the implementation of secure, scalable, and resilient enterprise infrastructure solutions supporting cloud‑native applications, data platforms, AI/ML workloads, and mission‑critical systems. The Infrastructure Technical Architect will serve as a technical leader responsible for defining infrastructure strategies, architecture standards, modernization roadmaps, and platform solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on‑premises environments.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong communication and leadership skills to help customers modernize infrastructure, optimise operations, and enable future growth.

Responsibilities include:

• Design enterprise infrastructure architectures supporting modern application, data, analytics, and AI ecosystems.
• Define infrastructure standards, reference architectures, best practices, and technical roadmaps.
• Architect cloud, hybrid‑cloud, and on‑premises infrastructure solutions utilizing AWS, Azure, GCP, and related technologies.
• Design and oversee production, staging, QA, and development environments operating in highly available 24x7 environments.
• Lead infrastructure modernization, cloud migration, and cloud optimisation initiatives.
• Design scalable network, compute, storage, virtualization, container, and platform architectures.
• Establish Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and platform engineering strategies to improve operational efficiency and consistency.
• Define resiliency, backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and high‑availability architectures.
• Ensure infrastructure architectures align with security, compliance, governance, and cybersecurity requirements.
• Conduct architecture reviews and provide technical leadership to infrastructure, cloud, application, and data engineering teams.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects, Data Architects, Product Managers, Developers, and Cloud Engineers to ensure cohesive end‑to‑end platform designs.
• Document current‑state environments, perform gap analyses, and develop future‑state architecture recommendations and implementation roadmaps.
• Support Dev Sec Ops  practices by integrating infrastructure automation, security controls, monitoring, and CI/CD processes.
• Leverage virtualization, containerisation, and cloud‑native technologies to optimise and modernise enterprise platforms.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend infrastructure solutions that improve scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Perform root cause analysis on complex infrastructure and platform issues and recommend long‑term architectural improvements.
• Serve as a technical mentor and trusted adviser to project teams and stakeholders.
• Present technical recommendations, architecture decisions, and project status updates to technical and executive audiences.

Required:

• Ability to hold a position of public trust with the U.S. Government.
• Bachelor's degree
• 10+ years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise infrastructure solutions.
• 8+ years of experience architecting cloud and hybrid‑cloud environments utilizing AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• 8+ years of experience implementing Infrastructure as Code, automation, and orchestration solutions.
• 8+ years of experience supporting software development and infrastructure delivery within Agile environments.
• Experience designing enterprise infrastructure architectures including networking, compute, storage, virtualization, and cloud services.
• Experience integrating infrastructure platforms with Dev Sec Ops  tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment processes.
• Experience designing highly available, fault‑tolerant, and scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Experience with identity and access management, infrastructure security, and compliance frameworks.
• Experience with Git‑based source control platforms including Git Hub, Git Lab, or Bitbucket.
• Experience documenting current‑state environments, conducting gap analyses, and producing architecture artefacts and technical recommendations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the…