IT Enterprise Systems & Cloud Architect

Bristow Group•Houston, TX

About The Position

The IT Enterprise System & Cloud Architect is accountable for defining, governing, and evolving the organization’s enterprise infrastructure, hybrid cloud, and platform architecture in support of mission‑critical, safety‑sensitive, and highly regulated operations. The role ensures that enterprise systems, technical infrastructure, and cloud platforms are designed and operated in a secure, resilient, scalable, and standardized manner aligned with business strategy, compliance obligations, and operational excellence. Acting as a senior technical authority, the Architect translates business and operational requirements into pragmatic, supportable architectural designs and implementation plans across on‑premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. The role places strong emphasis on availability, recoverability, cybersecurity, cost governance, and lifecycle management—balancing innovation with operational stability and regulatory compliance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise infrastructure, systems, and/or cloud environments.
Demonstrated experience designing and governing complex hybrid and cloud architectures.
Strong background across compute, networking, identity, storage, endpoint management, collaboration systems, and systems integration.
Experience working with geographically distributed operations, OT‑adjacent systems, or safety‑critical environments is highly desirable
Strong enterprise and cloud architecture design capability with a systems‑thinking approach.
Deep technical knowledge of Microsoft enterprise platforms, collaboration systems, hybrid identity, and cloud services.
Ability to translate complex business and operational requirements into practical, sustainable architecture and implementation plans.
Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
Excellent documentation, analytical, and problem‑solving skills.
Comfortable operating as a senior technical authority without direct line management.

Nice To Haves

Architecture, Cloud, Infrastructure, or Security certifications preferred (e.g. Azure Architect, TOGAF, ITIL, Microsoft, AWS, CISSP)

Responsibilities

Define and maintain enterprise and cloud target architectures, reference designs, and multi‑year roadmaps spanning data centers/bases, hybrid connectivity, public cloud (Azure/AWS), and SaaS platforms.
Act as Design Authority for enterprise infrastructure and cloud solutions, ensuring alignment with architectural standards, security principles, operational models, and regulatory expectations.
Lead architecture reviews for major initiatives, platform changes, mergers/integrations, and vendor solutions.
Design highly available, fault‑tolerant platforms supporting 24x7 operational environments, including disaster recovery, business continuity, and failover strategies.
Ensure designs meet stringent uptime, performance, and recoverability requirements common in aviation, industrial, and energy operations.
Partner with Operations & Service Delivery teams to ensure architectures and infrastructure are supportable, monitorable, and production‑ready.
Architect and govern Azure, AWS, and hybrid environments including landing zones, networking, identity, compute, storage, and security baselines.
Establish architectural patterns for scalability, cost transparency, and financial governance in line with FinOps best practices.
Provide authoritative guidance on cloud adoption, migrations, workload placement, and decommissioning of legacy platforms.
Define secure‑by‑design architectures aligned to Zero Trust principles across identity, endpoint, network, and data layers.
Ensure infrastructure and cloud designs meet internal security standards and external compliance obligations (e.g. ISO 27001, SOX, NIS, NIST CSF, aviation and industrial regulatory requirements and frameworks).
Collaborate with Cybersecurity and Risk teams to embed controls, logging, monitoring, and auditability into platform designs.
Define, maintain, and enforce enterprise infrastructure, collaboration systems, and cloud standards, guardrails, and lifecycle practices.
Participate in architecture governance forums, technical design authorities, and change advisory processes.
Evaluate vendors, manage service providers, and technology platforms, providing independent technical recommendations and risk assessments.
Provide hands‑on architectural leadership during project delivery—from concept and design through implementation and operational handover.
Ensure designs are well documented, automated where appropriate, and transitioned cleanly into steady‑state operations.
Support root cause analysis and remediation of complex cross‑platform technical issues.
Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies relevant to regulated, mission‑critical environments.
Identify opportunities for modernization, automation, consolidation, and operational efficiency improvements.
Contribute to technology strategy, investment planning, and decision support.