Senior Infrastructure, Security & Operations Architect

Description

Title:

Senior Infrastructure, Security & Operations Architect

Location:

New Albany, Ohio
Job Type:Full Time

Join Wallick, a 100% employee-owned company with over 55 years of experience in providing affordable housing and assisted living for families and seniors across the Midwest. With1,000+ associates and a mission toopen doors to homes, opportunity, and hope,we take pride in fostering a supportive and collaborative work environment where every employee-owner plays a vital role.

Wallick is seeking a senior, hands-on architect to connect enterprise infrastructure, cybersecurity, and daily operations. You will shape the network linking our communities to the corporate office, the hybrid data center and cloud environment, the platforms and devices associates depend on, and the identity and security controls that keep the environment trusted.

This is not a strategy-only position. You will design and engineer major changes, share the operational load, and turn solutions into standards and procedures others can execute. You will also serve as the senior technical voice across infrastructure and security, command major and cross-domain incidents, integrate both domains into one technical view, and communicate with senior leadership, auditors, and insurers alongside the Sr.

Infrastructure Manager.

• Work within a two-architect model in Wallick IT's Power & Protect pillar, alongside a Network Engineer and a partner-delivered IT Service Desk.
• Own a primary domain, infrastructure or security, while maintaining working fluency in the other and providing backup coverage.
• Operate as a senior individual contributor with no direct reports. Seniority reflects broader scope, judgment, incident leadership, and influence rather than supervision.
• Participate in the on-call escalation rotation and travel regularly to Wallick communities for hands-on work.

• Own the architecture for your primary domain and maintain an accurate, current view of the environment, its connections, and its condition.
• Create practical standards and reference patterns for firewalls, devices, platforms, identity, and security controls.
• Build and sequence a roadmap that balances business needs, risk, technical health, and team capacity.

• Design and engineer major initiatives such as Azure migration, hybrid environment strategy, edge network standardization across approximately 162 firewalls, identity and email security modernization, platform upgrades, and workload transitions.
• Take solutions from design through production readiness, then complete the handoff with documentation, operating procedures, and training.
• Partner across IT to create secure-by-default patterns that are practical for the environment Wallick operates.

• Infrastructure focus: network, firewall, data center, virtualization, Azure and hybrid cloud, end-user computing, device lifecycle, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery exercises.
• Security focus:
  Entra , conditional and privileged access, joiner-mover-leaver processes, layered defenses, detection and response, incident playbooks, audit evidence, remediation tracking, cybersecurity awareness, and third‑party security risk.

• Carry a meaningful share of daily infrastructure and security operations, including changes, alert triage, access requests, and control upkeep.
• Serve as the top escalation tier in your primary domain, lead incident response within that domain, and take command of major or cross-domain incidents.
• Convert recurring work, escalations, and designs into procedures, patterns,…