Sr Infrastructure Architect II

Job Description

Pacific Life is investing in bright, agile, and diverse talent to contribute to our mission of innovating our business and creating a superior customer experience. We're actively seeking a talented Senior Infrastructure Architect II to join our PL Technology Shared Services team. This person should be onsite in our Charlotte, NC or Newport Beach, CA location.

• Align infrastructure architecture with business objectives and technical requirements, ensuring that solutions are both effective and future‑proof.
• Integrate diverse technical domains‑applications, infrastructure operations, data centers and networking into unified infrastructure solutions that support enterprise‑wide initiatives.
• Provide multi‑layered technical expertise for next‑generation initiatives to best fit PL Technology's future roadmap.
• Evaluate legacy systems to incorporate infrastructure best practices, proactively resolve infrastructure risks, and identify opportunities to remediate technical debt.
• Document and communicate architectural decisions and rationale to stakeholders across business and technical domains.

• Architect LANs, WANs, VPNs, and firewalls to ensure secure, reliable, and high‑performance connectivity across the enterprise.
• Tailor network designs to meet business requirements, including scalability, redundancy, and compliance with Pacific Life standards.
• Integrate network components into broader infrastructure solutions involving data centers, cloud systems, and virtualization platforms.

• Ensure designs comply to PL standards for network security, ensuring compliance with relevant Global / Regional standards and regulations.
• Participate in disaster recovery and business continuity planning, ensuring infrastructure resilience and availability.
• Lead infrastructure architecture reviews and governance processes, ensuring compliance with enterprise standards and identifying opportunities for optimization.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure standards, including non‑functional requirements (NFRs), blueprints, and reference architectures to guide consistent and efficient implementation.

• Partner with platform and application teams to incorporate infrastructure requirements and alignment with infrastructure roadmaps.
• Architect scalable infrastructure solutions in conjunction with the engineering team to support business applications and meet or exceed defined service level agreements (SLAs).
• Contribute to cloud strategy and hybrid infrastructure models, including migration planning, workload placement, and optimization.
• Engage in vendor evaluation and management, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and service expectations.

• 8+ years of related experience.
• 4‑year degree or equivalent experience.

• Demonstrable understanding of the life insurance (or reinsurance) industry.
• Broad knowledge of the activities and processes involved in operating a global (re) insurance company, with deep knowledge of functional area (Actuarial/Finance/Operations).

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• Prioritization of your health and well‑being including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Well‑being Reimbursement Account that can be used on yourself or your eligible dependents.
• Generous paid time off options including Paid Time Off, Holiday Schedules, and Financial Planning Time Off.
• Paid Parental Leave as well as an Adoption Assistance Program.
• Competitive 401k savings plan with company match and an additional contribution regardless of participation.

Pacific Life Insurance Company is an Equal Opportunity /Affirmative Action Employer, M/F/D/V. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request an accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career center as a result of your disability. To request an accommodation, contact a Human Resources Representative at Pacific Life Insurance Company.

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