Infrastructure Architect

• 12-15 years of IT experience, including substantial experience in infrastructure or enterprise architecture roles within complex organizations.

• Demonstrated architecture experience across hybrid cloud, data center, modern workplace, enterprise network, platform engineering, and infrastructure operations.

• Strong knowledge of Azure, AWS, or GCP; virtualization and container platforms; enterprise networking and SD-WAN; workplace technologies; observability platforms; automation and infrastructure-as-code.

• Practical understanding of microservices infrastructure patterns, Kubernetes ecosystems, APIs, DevSecOps integration, site reliability engineering concepts, and cloud-native operational models.

• Ability to design for availability, scalability, performance, recoverability, supportability, security, and cost, and to explain architecture trade-offs clearly.

• Working knowledge of IT security architecture and controls, without requiring deep specialist cybersecurity credentials.

• Experience with ITIL-aligned service management, managed services, transition, operational readiness, capacity planning, and continual service improvement.

• Strong stakeholder management, consulting, facilitation, documentation, and presentation skills, with the ability to influence senior technical and business leaders.