Senior Infrastructure Architect (Information Technology) - Project Hire

Universal Orlando•Orlando, FL

19h

About The Position

The Senior Infrastructure Architect is responsible for defining and governing enterprise infrastructure patterns across on-prem datacenters and public cloud. This role spans compute, storage, networking, virtualization/containers, IaaS/PaaS, and SaaS integrations, from bare metal through cloud-native, ensuring secure, resilient, and scalable designs. Partners with other teams to drive standardization and best practices around automation (IaC), zero-trust controls, monitoring/observability, backup/DR, and lifecycle/capacity planning; leads cost optimization and vendor/technology selection. The architect is part of the architecture review board and is responsible for reference architectures and roadmaps and enforce compliance to reference designs. The individual works with architecture and technology leadership to drive a global standardized infrastructure vision and roadmap. This leader must be able to inspire UDX culture.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, systems engineering, information technology or similar preferred.
9+ years in technology delivery and implementation.
7+ years’ experience in global/large scale/enterprise solution and platform development.
7+ years’ hands on experience with Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS) implementations.
Extensive experience in front-end and back-end integration design.
Extensive Experience in executive communication and collaboration.
Experience in stakeholder and partner communication.
Experience with the software development lifecycle; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Extensive experience designing and deployment of cloud and on-prem infrastructure
Experience evaluating architecture designs and making recommendations for infrastructure implementation, deployment and provisioning.
Repeated experience with UML artifacts.
A technical background with an understanding of high-level networks, routers, switches, firewalls, BGP, and SANs.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code deployments.
Experience with capacity planning across cloud and on-prem infrastructure
Experience with an architecture review board (ARB).
Demonstrated ability with Cloud FinOps and cost modeling.
Consistent attendance is a job requirement.

Nice To Haves

Preferred certifications with AWS and/or Microsoft Azure

Responsibilities

Set and enforce reference architectures, patterns and guardrails across on-prem datacenters and public cloud compute (compute, storage, network, virtualization/containers, SaaS).
Own the end-to-end stack, from bare metal and hypervisors to IaaS/PaaS and SaaS integrations.
Drive Infrastructure-as-Code, configuration management and pipeline-drive delivery.
Partner with NBC Operations & Technology teams, and UDX infrastructure and DevOps teams to align on patterns, reference architectures and remove manual drift.
Standardize performance baselines, load testing and tuning.
Architect for availability, performance and scalability with clear SLOs, capacity planning and lifecycle management.
Specify logging, metrics and tracing standards.
Ensure backup/restore and DR strategies are in place and ensure operational excellence with runbooks.
Participate in architecture review board, maintain infrastructure technology roadmaps to support annual planning and long-range planning.
Help reservations/savings plans and hardware refresh with demand curves.
Partner with other teams to ensure cost modeling/FinOps is performed on new designs.
Evaluate vendors and standardize on approved services to control sprawl and total cost of ownership.
Understand and actively participate in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established UO policy, procedures, training and team member involvement activities.
Perform other duties as assigned.