Senior Infrastructure Architect

Senior Infrastructure Architect The Senior Infrastructure Architect is responsible for the strategic design, governance, and optimization of enterprise infrastructure across Arcwood. This role architects and oversees cloud, network, cybersecurity, data center, telecommunications, and operational technology (OT) infrastructure supporting treatment, storage, disposal (TSD) facilities, hazardous waste operations, transportation fleets, laboratory environments, field services, and corporate functions.

The Senior Infrastructure Architect establishes enterprise standards and long-term technology roadmaps that ensure secure, resilient, scalable, and compliant infrastructure capable of supporting 24/7 operations across multiple facilities and locations. The role partners with business leaders, operations, cybersecurity, engineering, and acquisitions teams to modernize infrastructure, enable digital transformation, and support organizational growth.

Arcwood Environmental is pursuing growth through M&A activity, and this role will serve as the technical owner for infrastructure to support acquired organizations through their onboarding and long-term operational needs.

• Prioritizes health and safety by adhering to policies, processes, and consistently maintaining safe practices
• Designs, documents, and implements enterprise infrastructure architectures across multiple sites, including treatment, storage, disposal (TSD), incineration, laboratory, transportation, field service, and corporate operations
• Architects, engineers, and optimizes highly available cloud, network, server, storage, virtualization, telecommunications, backup, and disaster recovery solutions that meet performance, scalability, resilience, and cybersecurity requirements
• Develops and maintains enterprise infrastructure standards, reference architectures, technical roadmaps, engineering guidelines, and operational best practices to drive consistency and standardization across all locations
• Leads infrastructure modernization initiatives, including cloud adoption, data center optimization, network transformation, platform consolidation, automation, and technology lifecycle management
• Serves as the technical owner for infrastructure needs throughout Arcwood’s pursuit of growth through M&A activities; provides end-to-end technical leadership, including infrastructure due diligence, target-state architecture design, integration execution, risk mitigation, and post-acquisition technology stabilization
• Designs and supports enterprise WAN, SD-WAN, LAN, wireless, VPN, internet connectivity, Microsoft Azure, Active Directory, Entra , storage, virtualization, backup, and identity management platforms
• Develops infrastructure-as-code, automation, orchestration, monitoring, and configuration management solutions to improve performance, reliability, security, and operational efficiency
• Architects secure infrastructure supporting operational technology (OT), industrial control systems, laboratory environments, facility operations, and remote field locations while maintaining appropriate separation and integration between OT and enterprise IT environments
• Implements and maintains cybersecurity controls, including network segmentation, Zero Trust architecture, secure remote access, identity governance, vulnerability remediation, security hardening, logging, and monitoring capabilities
• Establishes and validates business continuity, disaster recovery, high-availability, redundancy, backup, and resiliency strategies to support critical 24/7 operations
• Serves as the highest-level technical escalation point for complex infrastructure, cloud, network, systems, and security issues; leads root cause analysis efforts and develops long-term corrective action plans
• Conducts architecture reviews, technical assessments, proof-of-concepts, technology evaluations, and capacity planning activities to ensure infrastructure solutions align with business, operational, and regulatory requirements
• Assists with technical infrastructure due diligence, integration planning, and standardization efforts associated with acquisitions, facility expansions, and enterprise growth initiatives
• Partners with digital, cybersecurity, operations, engineering, and business leaders to evaluate requirements, develop technical solutions, and support strategic initiatives that improve safety, operational efficiency, system reliability, and scalability
• Provides technical leadership and mentorship to…