IT Infrastructure Architect
Listed on 2026-08-03
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Cybersecurity
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Job Title
IT Infrastructure Architect
Education
Bachelor's Degree
Location
Houston, TX 77032 US (Primary)
Professional
Category
Information Technology
Job Type
Permanent
Job Description
POSITION SUMMARYWe are seeking a seasoned Infrastructure Architect to design and drive the technical direction of our technology platform. This is a senior individual contributor role focused on hands-on architecture across cloud, on-premises, Dev Ops/platform, and security domains. You will own high-impact technical decisions, set standards and patterns for the broader engineering organization, and serve as the go-to expert for infrastructure strategy.
The ideal candidate combines deep multi-cloud expertise, a pragmatic approach to hybrid environments, and the communication skills to translate complex infrastructure concepts into business value.
Note on Scope: This is an IT Infrastructure role, not an Enterprise Architecture (EA) position. The Infrastructure Architect operates at the implementation and delivery layer — designing, building, and operating infrastructure systems. The role works in close partnership with the EA team to ensure infrastructure decisions align with enterprise-wide architectural standards, roadmaps, and governance. Candidates should expect regular collaboration with EA but will not be responsible for enterprise-level application or business architecture.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES- Define and own the enterprise infrastructure reference architecture spanning cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), on-premises data centers, and hybrid connectivity.
- Lead the evaluation, selection, and lifecycle management of infrastructure platforms, tools, and vendors.
- Design scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems that meet SLA and RTO/RPO targets.
- Establish Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) standards using Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent; champion Git Ops practices.
- Drive cloud migration and modernization roadmaps, including workload assessment, re-platforming, and cost optimization.
- Architect network topologies including VPCs, VPNs, SD-WAN, DNS, load balancing, and CDN strategies.
- Produce architecture decision records (ADRs), design documentation, and reference implementations that the broader team can follow.
- Provide architectural oversight of production cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP) for reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Guide on-premises and colocation infrastructure strategy: compute (VMware/bare metal), storage, and networking.
- Define capacity planning, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.
- Serve as escalation owner for P1/P2 infrastructure incidents; participate in on-call rotation.
- Design and evolve the observability stack (metrics, logs, traces) using Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, Splunk, or equivalent.
- Design and improve CI/CD pipelines (Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, Jenkins) to enable rapid, reliable software delivery.
- Architect Kubernetes platform strategy (EKS, AKS, GKE, or self-managed): cluster topology, workload placement, autoscaling, and resource policies.
- Define developer experience standards by designing self-service platform capabilities, internal developer portals, and golden paths.
- Promote SRE practices: SLOs, error budgets, chaos engineering, and blameless post-mortems.
- Embed security into infrastructure from the ground up: zero-trust networking, IAM least-privilege, secrets management, and encryption at rest/in transit.
- Partner with the security team to achieve and maintain compliance certifications (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA) as applicable.
- Define vulnerability management, patching cadence, and infrastructure hardening standards.
- Design infrastructure-level controls for regulatory requirements and audit readiness.
- Act as a technical advisor and subject matter expert; provide architecture reviews and guidance to engineering teams.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, Security, and Finance stakeholders to align infrastructure strategy with business goals.
- Partner with the Enterprise Architecture (EA) team to ensure infrastructure…
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