It Infrastructure Architect

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DEPARTMENT:

Information Services & Technology

DATE POSTED :

April 29, 2026

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Full-Time, 37.5 hrs/week, Exempt

SUMMARY OBJECTIVE:

The purpose of this position is to provide strategic leadership in designing, integrating, and governing the County’s enterprise IT infrastructure landscape. This role ensures secure, scalable, resilient, and high-performance infrastructure by defining architecture standards, aligning technology initiatives with County business goals, and overseeing the design and implementation of networks, servers, storage, data centers, and cloud platforms. The IT Infrastructure Architect collaborates closely with business and IT stakeholders to deliver innovative, sustainable technology solutions that support County-wide operations and long-term strategic objectives, with a strong emphasis on infrastructure reliability, network performance, and security.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

The essential functions listed below represent the majority of the responsibilities of this position. Management may assign additional functions as needed.

• Lead the design and governance of enterprise application architecture across County systems, ensuring interoperability and strategic alignment.

• Lead the design and governance of enterprise IT infrastructure architecture across County systems, ensuring resiliency, performance, and strategic alignment.

• Develop, document, and maintain architecture standards, infrastructure guidelines, network designs, and technical roadmaps.

• Design secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure solutions, including servers, storage, networking (LAN/WAN), firewalls, data centers, and hybrid/cloud environments.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders and IT leadership to translate strategic goals into actionable infrastructure and security solutions.

• Conduct technology assessments and propose modernization strategies (e.g., cloud migration, network optimization) to improve system performance, reliability, and security.

• Oversee and review network architecture, security controls, virtualization, and infrastructure provisioning to support County-wide operations.

• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to infrastructure engineers, network administrators, security specialists, and project teams.

• Ensure compliance with County IT security policies, data governance requirements, cybersecurity frameworks, and industry best practices.

• Support vendor evaluations and participate in solution selection for infrastructure, network, and security technologies.

• Maintain architecture documentation and deliver clear communication to stakeholders about infrastructure designs, network topologies, and security plans.

• Performs related work as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Knowledge in Enterprise systems architecture principles and frameworks

• Knowledge in Enterprise IT infrastructure architecture principles and frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, ITIL)

• Knowledge in Network architecture, routing, switching, SDN, and security protocols (e.g., firewalls, VPN, zero trust)

• Knowledge in Cloud infrastructure (IaaS, PaaS on Azure, AWS), hybrid cloud designs, virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V), and containerization

• Knowledge of Security, compliance (e.g., NIST, CIS), cybersecurity best practices, and data governance requirements

• Knowledge of Infrastructure management methodologies and tools (e.g., monitoring, automation)

• Skilled in designing secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure solutions including networks and advanced security measures

• Skilled in developing and maintaining technical…