Sr Infrastructure Architect II

Pacific Life•Charlotte, NC

43d•Onsite

About The Position

Pacific Life is investing in bright, agile, and diverse talent to contribute to our mission of innovating our business and creating a superior customer experience. We're actively seeking a talented Senior Infrastructure Architect II to join our PL Technology Shared Services team. This person should be onsite in the North Carolina area. As a Senior Infrastructure Architect II, you'll play a key role in Pacific Life's growth and long-term success by defining and shaping the global PL infrastructure architecture, and bringing together the expertise of Application / Tech Owners, I&O, and Network in designing and provisioning scalable infrastructure. This includes the development and maintenance of infrastructure standards, NFRs, Blueprints, and Reference Architectures. You will fill a new role that sits in the PL Technology department. Your colleagues will include enterprise architects, engineers, and system administrators.

Requirements

8+ years of related experience
4-year degree or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

Demonstrable understanding of the life insurance (or reinsurance) industry
Broad knowledge of the activities and processes involved in operating a global (re)insurance company, with deep knowledge of functional area (Actuarial/Finance/Operations)

Responsibilities

Align infrastructure architecture with business objectives and technical requirements, ensuring that solutions are both effective and future-proof.
Integrate diverse technical domains-applications, infrastructure operations, data centers and networking-into unified infrastructure solutions that support enterprise-wide initiatives.
Provide multi-layered technical expertise for next generation initiatives to best fit PL Technology's future roadmap
Evaluate legacy systems to incorporate infrastructure best practices, proactively resolve infrastructure risks, and identify opportunities to remediate technical debt
Document and communicate architectural decisions and rationale to stakeholders across business and technical domains.
Architect LANs, WANs, VPNs, and firewalls to ensure secure, reliable, and high-performance connectivity across the enterprise
Tailor network designs to meet business requirements, including scalability, redundancy, and compliance with Pacific Life standards
Integrate network components into broader infrastructure solutions involving data centers, cloud systems, and virtualization platforms
Ensure designs comply to PL standards for network security, ensuring compliance with relevant Global / Regional standards and regulations also considered
Participate in disaster recovery and business continuity planning, ensuring infrastructure resilience and availability.
Lead infrastructure architecture reviews and governance processes, ensuring compliance with enterprise standards and identifying opportunities for optimization.
Develop and maintain infrastructure standards, including non-functional requirements (NFRs), blueprints, and reference architectures to guide consistent and efficient implementation
Partner with platform and application teams to incorporate infrastructure requirements and alignment with infrastructure roadmaps
Architect scalable infrastructure solutions in conjunction with the engineering team to support business applications and meet or exceed defined service level agreements (SLAs)
Contribute to cloud strategy and hybrid infrastructure models, including migration planning, workload placement, and optimization.
Engage in vendor evaluation and management, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and service expectations.

Benefits

Prioritization of your health and well-being including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Wellbeing Reimbursement Account that can be used on yourself or your eligible dependents
Generous paid time off options including: Paid Time Off, Holiday Schedules, and Financial Planning Time Off
Paid Parental Leave as well as an Adoption Assistance Program
Competitive 401k savings plan with company match and an additional contribution regardless of participation

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