Principal Architect, Network & Infrastructure

Overview

Enchanted Rock is a leader and innovator of Electrical Resiliency-As-A-Service. Our advanced dual-purpose microgrids protect companies, critical infrastructure, and communities from unexpected power outages, ensuring business continuity and civic durability.

Enchanted Rock’s dual-purpose microgrids use natural gas and renewable natural gas (RNG) to drive the nation’s most dependable microgrids — all while producing significantly lower to zero carbon emissions than traditional diesel backup generators. Enchanted Rock solutions provide 24/7/365 monitoring, optimization, and forecasts to enable worry-free, reliable power for businesses. The Enchanted Rock solution brings together patented technologies, advanced dual-purpose microgrid designs and integrated end-to-end services.

The Power is On and we keep it on.

The Principal Architect - Network & Infrastructure, is a senior enterprise IT architect responsible for defining, designing, governing, and evolving the organization’s next-generation network and infrastructure architecture across corporate, data center, and cloud environments. This role will drive the future-state architectural direction and execution of technology initiatives across IT/OT environments while ensuring operational excellence, cybersecurity resilience, and regulatory compliance in alignment with the company’s strategic objectives.

In addition to defining and designing future-state architectures, this role owns the long-term health, maintainability, and evolution of enterprise network and infrastructure platforms. The Principal Architect is accountable for ensuring architectures are not only well-designed, but operationally sustainable, supportable, and continuously improved throughout their lifecycle.

Reporting to the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and based at our Houston, TX headquarters, this role leads a small team of senior network and infrastructure engineers to act as a technical mentor rather than a pure people manager. This role requires deep, hands-on architectural expertise, including personally designing, validating, and evolving complex enterprise networks and infrastructure solutions. The Principal Architect - Network & Infrastructure, serves as the highest technical authority for enterprise IT and OT networking and infrastructure, partnering closely with executive leadership, cybersecurity, and IT operations teams.

• Define and maintain enterprise network and infrastructure architecture standards, reference architectures, and roadmaps.
• Translate business and application requirements into scalable, resilient, and secure future-state infrastructure designs.
• Lead architectural decisions across corporate networks, data centers, and cloud platforms.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and vendors, making recommendations aligned to long-term enterprise IT/OT strategy.
• Define architectural KPIs related to resilience, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.

• Directly architect, lead and maintain enterprise LAN, WAN, and WLAN designs supporting large-scale distributed environments.
• Design and maintain high-availability, fault-tolerant network architectures across geographically distributed sites.
• Define routing, switching, segmentation, QoS, and traffic engineering standards.
• Lead next-generation data center networking architectures.
• Drive modern network initiatives including SD-WAN, SASE, cloud-integrated connectivity, and network automation-enabled designs.
• Architect secure remote access and enterprise connectivity solutions.

• Architect and maintain enterprise compute, storage, virtualization, and platform infrastructure.
• Lead future-state architecture for hybrid and multi-cloud environments (Azure and AWS), including network integration and connectivity models.
• Drive modernization of legacy infrastructure toward cloud-aligned models.
• Establish standards for backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and infrastructure resilience.
• Ensure infrastructure platforms meet performance, scalability, lifecycle, and cost-efficiency objectives.

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