Sr Infrastructure Architect II

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Charlotte - NCtime type:
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Posted 8 Days Agojob requisition :
R15545
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* Job Description:

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* Job Description:

** Pacific Life is investing in bright, agile, and diverse talent to contribute to our mission of innovating our business and creating a superior customer experience. We’re actively seeking a talented Senior Infrastructure Architect II to join our PL Technology Shared Services team. This person should be onsite in the North Carolina area.

As a Senior Infrastructure Architect II, you’ll play a key role in Pacific Life’s growth and long-term success by defining and shaping the global PL infrastructure architecture, and bringing together the expertise of Application / Tech Owners, I&O, and Network in designing and provisioning scalable infrastructure. This includes the development and maintenance of infrastructure standards, NFRs, Blueprints, and Reference Architectures. You will fill a new role that sits in the PL Technology department.

Your colleagues will include enterprise architects, engineers, and system administrators.
** How you’ll help move us forward:
*** Design and Implementation
** Align infrastructure architecture with business objectives and technical requirements, ensuring that solutions are both effective and future-proof.
* Integrate diverse technical domains—applications, infrastructure operations, data centers and networking—into unified infrastructure solutions that support enterprise-wide initiatives.
* Provide multi-layered technical expertise for next generation initiatives to best fit PL Technology’s future roadmap
* Evaluate legacy systems to incorporate infrastructure best practices, proactively resolve infrastructure risks, and identify opportunities to remediate technical debt
* Document and communicate architectural decisions and rationale to stakeholders across business and technical domains.
* Network Standards / Design
** Architect LANs, WANs, VPNs, and firewalls to ensure secure, reliable, and high-performance connectivity across the enterprise
* Tailor network designs to meet business requirements, including scalability, redundancy, and compliance with Pacific Life standards
* Integrate network components into broader infrastructure solutions involving data centers, cloud systems, and virtualization platforms
* Security and Compliance
** Ensure designs comply to PL standards for network security, ensuring compliance with relevant Global / Regional standards and regulations also considered
* Participate in disaster recovery and business continuity planning, ensuring infrastructure resilience and availability.
* Lead infrastructure architecture reviews and governance processes, ensuring compliance with enterprise standards and identifying opportunities for optimization.
* Develop and maintain infrastructure standards, including non-functional requirements (NFRs), blueprints, and reference architectures to guide consistent and efficient implementation
* Collaboration and Coordination
** Partner with platform and application teams to incorporate infrastructure requirements and alignment with infrastructure roadmaps
* Architect scalable infrastructure solutions in conjunction with the engineering team to support business applications and meet or exceed defined service level agreements (SLAs)
* Contribute to cloud strategy and hybrid infrastructure models, including migration planning, workload placement, and optimization.
* Engage in vendor evaluation and management, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and service expectations.
** The Experience you Bring:
*** 8+ years of related experience
* 4-year degree or equivalent experience
** What makes you stand out:
*** Demonstrable understanding of the life insurance (or reinsurance) industry
* Broad knowledge of the activities and processes involved in operating a global (re) insurance company, with deep knowledge of functional area (Actuarial/Finance/Operations)
** You can be who you are.
**** Base Pay Range:
** The base pay range noted represents the company’s good faith minimum and maximum range for this role at the time of…