Senior Infrastructure Architect

Infrastructure ArchitectLead infrastructure integration activities across user experience, collaboration platforms, data center/cloud architecture, directory services, and Office 365 environments.Collaborate with enterprise architecture to design and publish standards, blueprints, patterns, principles, best practices, and technical guidelines.Define strategic direction for public cloud, directory services, collaboration services, network, storage, server platforms, databases, and security technologies.Promote the use of shared systems and tools to reduce costs and enable cross-team collaboration.Ensure solutions do not duplicate existing capabilities and remain aligned with IT and business strategies.Serve as a level-4 escalation point for operational teams, providing problem resolution and root-cause analysis.Plan lifecycle and refresh cycles to ensure solutions align with the broader application, desktop, network, server, and storage ecosystem.Develop and maintain a long-term infrastructure technology vision, assessing current capabilities and future needs.Ensure installations and upgrades follow all policies, procedures, and licensing requirements.Identify, implement, and monitor best practices for infrastructure architecture.Review software requirements and design solutions for high availability and disaster recovery.Minimum 12 years of IT infrastructure experience, including at least 5 years working as an infrastructure architect.Ability to lead Infrastructure and DevOps teams in delivering enterprise-grade solutions.Expert knowledge of Windows Server, enterprise networking, public cloud IaaS/PaaS, Microsoft Exchange/Office 365, Active Directory/Entra ID, SQL Server, virtualization platforms, and enterprise SAN storage.Cloud certifications in Azure or AWS at the architecture level.