Principal Infrastructure Architect

Globus Medical•Audubon, PA

About The Position

The Principal Infrastructure Architect owns the end-to-end technical design of Globus Medical’s on-premises core platform, with decision authority over technology choices within standards set by the SVP. The role develops technical proposals and business cases for executive review, leads the technical aspects of vendor selection and agreements, and remains accountable through platform construction, migration, and the first year of operation. The architect designs target and transition states for compute, virtualization, storage, backup, data protection, and disaster recovery across office locations, accounting for capacity, performance, resilience, and anticipated growth. The role leads the design, installation, configuration, hardening, and acceptance of the Audubon platform and Limerick recovery site, including servers and GPU nodes, private cloud, storage, backup, and network and identity integrations. It also designs the infrastructure for Oracle Database, SharePoint Server, Exchange Server, and data and AI workloads, in collaboration with relevant teams. The role establishes backup and disaster-recovery architecture and testing, including replication, retention, immutability, restore testing, recovery objectives, and an annual disaster-recovery exercise. It prepares technical sections of capital requests and business cases, including options, multi-year costs, risks, and recommendations, and presents them to executives when requested. It also leads technical vendor evaluations, proof-of-concept work, negotiations, and acceptance requirements. The architect publishes infrastructure standards, reference architectures, build documentation, naming conventions, and configuration baselines; establishes infrastructure change review; and mentors engineers in Audubon and Chennai. The platform must meet CISO security requirements, including segmentation, privileged access, hardening, SIEM logging, encryption, and audited change. The architect designs for operational use through monitoring, capacity reporting, patching, lifecycle management, runbooks, and handover to operations teams in Chennai and the US. The position requires compliance with company conduct standards and applicable laws and regulations, completion of introductory and annual compliance training, and professional, ethical, and socially responsible representation of the company. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Requirements

12+ years of enterprise infrastructure experience, including at least 5 years as an architect accountable for an end-to-end, data-center-scale platform covering compute, virtualization, storage, backup, and disaster recovery.
Experience building or rebuilding a private cloud at scale, including at least one VMware exit or migration to an alternative platform such as Nutanix, Hyper-V, Proxmox, KVM-based, or equivalent.
Deep, current, hands-on knowledge of enterprise server platforms such as Lenovo, Dell, or HPE; all-flash storage such as Pure, NetApp, or Dell; and backup and replication such as Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik, or equivalent.
Knowledge of data-center networking fundamentals, including VLANs, routing, load balancing, firewalls, and site-to-site replication links.
Experience designing and operating exercised disaster recovery, including multi-site replication, system-level recovery objectives, failover and failback, and immutable backup against ransomware.
Experience platforming Tier 1 on-premises enterprise databases and applications, particularly Oracle Database Appliance, Exadata, or RAC on commodity hardware, including sizing, performance, licensing implications, and cutover.
Experience writing and presenting capital requests and business cases to finance and executive audiences, including three-to-five-year total cost of ownership and a defended recommendation.
Experience leading technical selection and negotiation for hardware, software, and services, including requirements, proof of concept, bills of materials, and acceptance terms; ability to read a maintenance contract.
Experience building to a security baseline that includes segmentation, privileged access, hardening standards, logging, encryption, and audited change, and partnering with a CISO or security function.
Clear writing and plain-speaking communication skills; ability to produce architecture documents and explain recommendations to executives concisely.
Ability to perform the listed physical demands: sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; regularly lift or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally up to 25 pounds; and possess close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and capacity to adjust focus.

Nice To Haves

Regulated-industry experience in medical devices, pharma, healthcare, or financial services, including validation, audit, and change-control obligations.
Experience landing Microsoft server workloads on premises, including SharePoint Server, Exchange Server, and SQL Server high availability, and integrating with a hardened Microsoft 365 tenant.
GPU compute and storage design experience for data and AI workloads, including NVIDIA-based nodes, high-throughput storage, and container platforms.
Cloud exit or repatriation experience moving a database or application estate from OCI, AWS, or Azure to owned infrastructure.
Experience mentoring engineers across sites and time zones; India delivery exposure is a plus.
Relevant certifications, such as Nutanix NCP or NCM, VMware VCAP or VCDX, Pure or NetApp, Veeam VMCA, Oracle, or TOGAF.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end architecture for on-premises compute, virtualization, storage, backup, data protection, and disaster recovery across office locations, including target and transition states and five-year capacity, performance, resilience, and growth planning.
Evaluate, benchmark, recommend, and decide on server, hypervisor and private-cloud platforms, storage, backup, replication, and data-center network integration within standards agreed with the SVP; document decisions.
Lead design, installation, configuration, hardening, and acceptance of the Audubon platform and Limerick recovery site, including servers and GPU nodes, private cloud, storage, backup, and network and identity integration.
Define acceptance tests and sign off on platform gates, including power and failover tests, restores within agreed time, and a successful disaster-recovery exercise.
Design infrastructure for Globus One Oracle Database, SharePoint Server, Exchange Server, and data and AI workloads; coordinate sizing, placement, performance, and cutover readiness with database, collaboration, and data teams.
Design backup and disaster recovery, including inter-site replication, backup policy and retention, immutability, restore testing, system-level recovery time and recovery point objectives, and the annual DR exercise.
Write technical sections of capital requests and business cases covering options, three-to-five-year costs, risks, and recommendations; present to the CFO and CEO when requested.
Lead technical vendor selection, proof of concept, and negotiation for hardware, software, maintenance, and services, including requirements, evaluation criteria, bills of materials, reference checks, and technical agreement terms; work with IT vendor and asset management lead and legal, and hold vendors accountable to agreements.
Set and publish infrastructure standards, reference architectures, build books, naming conventions, and configuration baselines; establish review of infrastructure changes and mentor infrastructure engineers in Audubon and Chennai.
Build the platform to CISO requirements, including segmentation, privileged access, hardening baselines, SIEM logging, encryption at rest and in transit, and audited change.
Design monitoring, capacity reporting, patching, lifecycle management, runbooks, and operational handover to teams in Chennai and the US.
Adhere to the company Code of Conduct, AdvaMed Code, MedTech Code, and other company policies; complete compliance training and maintain knowledge of applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
Represent the company professionally and uphold ethical business practices and socially responsible conduct in interactions with employees, customers, suppliers, and other third parties.