Infrastructure Architect

Title: Infrastructure ArchitectLocation: Pittsburgh, PA 15222 - Hybrid role - 2-3 days/week in officeThe Infrastructure Architect role is responsible for interpreting technology requirements and defining the design patterns for common technology architectures that will meet the business needs. The Infrastructure Architect will play a pivotal role in driving cloud adoption and shaping the infrastructure that supports the technology and security framework, ensuring that infrastructure standards are made in accordance with established standards, patterns, policies, procedures, and software licensing agreements.Primary Success FactorsLead key technology infrastructure modernization program initiatives as identified in the information technology strategic plan and provide direct analysis and recommendations associated with the implementation or migration of specific applications to modern cloud services.Lead implementation and maintenance of cloud management solutions including initial and ongoing configuration of related automation, notifications, and reporting capabilities.Collaboratively work with a variety of legacy applications and platforms along with application teams to implement or migrate associated components to cloud services.Responsible for providing technical leadership in the areas of solution architecture and design in accordance with industry standard best patterns and practices. Identifies deviations in the solution design from the target architecture and proposes appropriate solutions.Ability to provide technical direction and guidance to the enterprise architecture group relative to cloud infrastructure platforms design related topics, including research and design activities when required. This includes professional level presentation and communication.Works closely with program managers, architects, other team members and external resources in the solution definition and design processes, with a goal of ensuring that the solution design fits the enterprise context. Ability to communicate extremely well with both business users and highly technical resources.Required ExperienceBachelors of Science, Master's degree preferred, or equivalent work experience.Minimum of 10 years' experience, in architecting, maintaining, and managing technology across variety of technical and business disciplinesProfessional level certification (AWS and Azure) preferredIn-depth understanding of one or more cloud platforms preferably Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. This includes knowledge of their services, features, pricing models, and best practices for architecting solutions on these platforms.Excellent skills in communication, contextualization, conceptualization, abstraction, modeling, patterns, designHands-on experience in all aspects of target cloud computing (compute, CI/CD, containers, storage, platforms, data, networking and security)Experience designing highly available and fault-tolerant architectures in multi-site and multi-cloud deployments, auto-scaling, load balancing, and design disaster recovery strategies.Hands-on expertise with cloud infrastructure components such as virtual machines, containers (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), serverless computing (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions), object storage (e.g., Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage), and block storage.Hands-on Infrastructure as Code tools experience like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or Azure Resource Manager to define and manage cloud infrastructure using code. Writing and maintaining infrastructure code to provision and configure resources.