Senior Infrastructure Architect Jobs in Dallas, TX

Role Overview

An accomplished Infrastructure Architect with 15+ years of experience in designing, managing, and modernizing enterprise-scale IT infrastructure environments. Proven expertise across compute, storage, networking, hosting services, security, and cloud platforms, with a strong ability to align infrastructure architecture with business objectives. Adept at driving strategic initiatives, optimizing cost, improving resilience, and ensuring high availability, security, and scalability of IT systems.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture

• Lead the design, implementation, and governance of enterprise IT infrastructure across on‑premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
• Translate business requirements into robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure architectures that support current and future growth.
• Ensure infrastructure solutions align with organizational standards, industry best practices, and compliance requirements.

Technology Strategy & Roadmap

• Continuously evaluate industry trends and emerging technologies to keep the infrastructure landscape modern, competitive, and future-ready.
• Define and maintain short‑term and long‑term infrastructure architecture roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business and IT strategy.
• Provide architectural direction for modernization initiatives, legacy transformation, and digital adoption programs.

Capacity Planning & Resilience

• Perform capacity planning for compute, storage, network, and cloud resources to support enterprise workloads efficiently.
• Architect and oversee data retention strategies, backup solutions, high availability (HA), and disaster recovery (DR) plans, ensuring minimal downtime and business continuity.
• Regularly test and validate DR and failover strategies.

Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure

• Design and manage cloud-based infrastructure solutions using platforms such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, ensuring optimal performance, security, and cost efficiency.
• Provide expertise across IaaS, PaaS, and hybrid cloud models.
• Assess customers’ existing application and infrastructure landscapes and define end-to-end cloud migration roadmaps, including re-hosting, re-platforming, and modernization strategies.
• Implement automation and configuration management using tools such as Ansible, Chef, or equivalent technologies.

Security & Compliance

• Develop, implement, and enforce IT infrastructure security policies and procedures across environments.
• Ensure infrastructure designs meet security, compliance, and regulatory standards, including access control, data protection, and vulnerability management.
• Collaborate closely with security teams to proactively mitigate risks and strengthen infrastructure security posture.

Cost Optimization & Operational Excellence

• Architect cost‑effective infrastructure solutions that balance performance, availability, and budget constraints.
• Drive infrastructure optimization initiatives, including right‑sizing, automation, and adoption of cloud-native capabilities.
• Support operations teams with L3 expertise, ensuring rapid resolution of complex infrastructure issues.

Database & Data Platform Expertise

• Provide architectural guidance for Relational, NoSQL, and Big Data platforms, including:
• Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL
• Hadoop, Spark, and other open‑source big data technologies
• Ensure data platforms are designed for scalability, performance, reliability, and security.

Technical Skill Set

• Infrastructure Domains: Compute, Storage, Network, Hosting, Data Centers, Hybrid IT
• Cloud Platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure
• Automation & Configuration: Ansible, Chef
• Databases & Data Platforms: Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL
• Security: Infrastructure security architecture, compliance, policies, and controls
• Resilience: Backup, Disaster Recovery, High Availability, Data Retention

Value Delivered

• Enables business continuity through resilient and secure architecture
• Drives infrastructure modernization and cloud adoption
• Reduces operational cost while improving performance and scalability
• Acts as a trusted technical advisor to stakeholders and customers

Pay: $52.00 - $65.00 per hour

Work Location: In person