Data Center Infrastructure Architect
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Data center architect designing secure, resilient infrastructure across networking, compute, storage, virtualization, and security. Guiding enterprise implementations for ERP Suites’ 50+ customers.
Responsibilities:
- Design enterprise data center infrastructure solutions across compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and facilities dependencies
- Establish network architecture standards for routing, switching, segmentation, high availability, and connectivity across data centers, cloud environments, and remote sites
- Partner with infrastructure operations, security, application teams, and vendors to define technical requirements and implementation plans
- Evaluate infrastructure risks, capacity, redundancy, and performance requirements for business-critical systems
- Design failover, disaster recovery, and resiliency strategies supporting operational continuity
- Develop architecture diagrams, technical standards, implementation plans, migration strategies, operational runbooks, and infrastructure lifecycle roadmaps
- Provide technical recommendations for infrastructure investment and design decisions
- Guide implementation teams to align solutions with architecture standards and operational requirements
- Support planned maintenance, project cutovers, escalations, and critical incidents as needed
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
- At least eight years of infrastructure experience, including significant responsibility in data center architecture or senior network engineering
- Expert-level knowledge of enterprise and data center networking
- Knowledge of routing, switching, VLANs, VRFs, BGP, OSPF, and QoS
- Knowledge of subnetting, IP addressing, and network segmentation
- Knowledge of firewalls, load balancers, VPNs, and SD-WAN
- Knowledge of DNS, DHCP, and WAN/data center connectivity
- Ability to design highly available, resilient, secure, and scalable network architectures
- Strong skills in network troubleshooting, packet and traffic flow analysis, failover design, redundancy, capacity planning, and performance optimization
- Experience designing integrated infrastructure solutions across compute, storage, virtualization, security, monitoring, disaster recovery, and facilities dependencies
- Ability to produce clear technical documentation and communicate architecture recommendations to technical teams and executive stakeholders
- Experience working with vendors, managed service providers, security teams, application teams, and infrastructure operations
- Experience with vendor management and architecture governance
- Preferred: CCIE Data Center or CCNP Data Center certification
Benefits:
- Fully remote work arrangement
- Occasional travel to ERP Suites facilities or customer sites
- Standard business-hours coverage
- Availability for planned maintenance, project cutovers, escalations, and critical incident support as needed


















