Infrastructure, Security & Operations Architect

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Infrastructure, Security & Operations Architect

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 looking for a hands‑on architect who can connect enterprise infrastructure, cybersecurity, and day‑to‑day operations. You will help shape the network linking our communities to the corporate office, our hybrid data center and cloud environment, the platforms and devices associates use every day, and the identity and security controls that keep the environment trusted.

This is not a strategy-only role. You will design major changes, engineer them into production, share the operational load, lead complex escalations, and turn what you build into clear standards and procedures others can execute.

• You will be one of two architects in Wallick IT's Power & Protect pillar, reporting to the Sr. Infrastructure Manager and working alongside a Network Engineer and a partner‑delivered IT Service Desk.
• Each architect has a primary domain, infrastructure or security, while maintaining working fluency in the other and providing backup coverage.
• This is an individual contributor role. Your influence comes from sound architecture, practical engineering, clear documentation, and adoption across the organization.
• You will 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 and lead incident response within that domain.
• Convert recurring work, escalations, and designs into procedures, patterns, recorded walkthroughs, and working sessions so responsibilities can move closer to the front line.

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related…