Senior Infrastructure Architect

Universal Orlando • Orlando, FL

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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 a 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

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.
• Preferred certifications with AWS and/or Microsoft Azure
• Consistent attendance is a job requirement.
• Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Responsibilities

• Hybrid Infrastructure Architecture & Standards – 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.
• Platform Engineer, Performance & Automation – 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.
• Reliability, Observability & Continuity – 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.
• Capacity Planning, Governance & Roadmaps – 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.
• Understands and actively participates in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established UO policy, procedures, training and team member involvement activities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees