About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect/Leader to lead the design and modernization of complex on-premises and hybrid infrastructure environments.
This is an infrastructure architecture role first and a cloud role second.
Our environment is currently 90-95% on-premises, and we need an architect with deep, current expertise across compute, storage, virtualization, connectivity, VDI, resilience, and observability who can guide us through complex infrastructure migrations and shape a practical modernization roadmap.
This role is not a fit for candidates whose experience is primarily cloud-native or AWS-centric.
We need someone who has spent real time in the data center, understands legacy and hybrid systems at a deep technical level, and can bring cloud into the architecture as one part of a broader modernization strategy, not the starting point.
The role is weighted roughly 80% on-premises/hybrid infrastructure architecture and 20% AWS platform architecture, with a focus on serverless services supporting our ongoing modernization work.
What You Will Do
- Architect and evolve infrastructure across compute, storage, virtualization, network connectivity, VDI, resilience/DR, and observability/instrumentation
- Assess current-state on-premises and hybrid infrastructure and identify modernization opportunities grounded in business and technical constraints
- Lead and support complex infrastructure migrations, including data center consolidations, platform upgrades, and phased on-premises-to-hybrid transitions
- Develop infrastructure roadmaps and modernization strategies that sequence change realistically across legacy, hybrid, and cloud components
- Define target-state architecture that incorporates cloud where it adds value, without treating cloud migration as the default outcome
- Design and support AWS serverless components (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, EventBridge) as part of the hybrid architecture, representing roughly 20% of the role
- Establish standards for resilience, high availability, and disaster recovery across infrastructure domains
- Build and mature observability and instrumentation practices across the infrastructure stack
- Partner with security, network, and platform teams to ensure infrastructure designs meet compliance, performance, and reliability requirements
- Act as a technical advisor to senior leadership, translating infrastructure decisions into business risk, cost, and timeline terms
- Influence and align internal engineering teams and external service providers around a common infrastructure strategy
- Document architecture decisions, standards, and reference designs for use across teams
What You Bring
- 10+ years of infrastructure architecture experience, with substantial recent work in on-premises and hybrid environments, not solely cloud-native platforms
- Deep working knowledge of compute, storage (SAN/NAS), virtualization platforms (VMware or equivalent), network connectivity, and VDI technologies
- Demonstrated experience leading or supporting large, complex infrastructure migrations, ideally including data center or mainframe-adjacent environments
- Strong understanding of resilience engineering, including high availability design and disaster recovery planning
- Experience building or maturing observability and instrumentation capabilities across infrastructure layers
- Working AWS platform architecture experience, particularly serverless services (Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, EventBridge, SQS/SNS), and how they integrate into a broader hybrid architecture
- Proven ability to develop infrastructure roadmaps and modernization strategies that account for legacy constraints
- Strong technical leadership skills, with a track record of influencing decisions across internal teams, external service providers, and senior stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present infrastructure strategy to both technical and executive audiences
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in healthcare IT or another regulated industry with complex compliance requirements
- Experience with mainframe or legacy platform environments as part of a modernization initiative
- Relevant infrastructure or cloud certifications (e.g., VMware, ITIL, AWS/Azure architecture certifications)
- Experience working with managed service providers or outsourced infrastructure partners