Senior Azure Infrastructure Architect - Multiple Locations
Location: Alpharetta, GA; Charlotte, NC; Garden City, NY; Morristown, NJ; New York, NY; Purchase, NY; Chicago, IL; Conshohocken, PA; Dallas, TX; Denver, CO; Fargo, ND; Houston, TX; Lenexa, KS; Lubbock, TX; Mt Juliet, TN; Topeka, KS Role Responsibilities • Lead infrastructure integration activities across user experience, collaboration platforms, data center/cloud architecture, directory services, and Office 365 environments. • Collaborate with enterprise architecture to design and publish standards, blueprints, patterns, principles, best practices, and technical guidelines. • Define strategic direction for public cloud, directory services, collaboration services, network, storage, server platforms, databases, and security technologies. • Promote the use of shared systems and tools to reduce costs and enable cross‑team collaboration. • Ensure solutions do not duplicate existing capabilities and remain aligned with IT and business strategies. • Serve as a level‑4 escalation point for operational teams, providing problem resolution and root‑cause analysis. • Plan lifecycle and refresh cycles to ensure solutions align with the broader application, desktop, network, server, and storage ecosystem. • Develop and maintain a long‑term infrastructure technology vision, assessing current capabilities and future needs. • Ensure installations and upgrades follow all policies, procedures, and licensing requirements. • Identify, implement, and monitor best practices for infrastructure architecture. • Review software requirements and design solutions for high availability and disaster recovery. Technical Qualifications • Minimum 12 years of IT infrastructure experience, including at least 5 years working as an infrastructure architect. • Ability to lead Infrastructure and DevOps teams in delivering enterprise‑grade solutions. • Expert knowledge of Windows Server, enterprise networking, public cloud IaaS/PaaS, Microsoft Exchange/Office 365, Active Directory/Entra ID, SQL Server, virtualization platforms, and enterprise SAN storage. • Cloud certifications in Azure or AWS at the architecture level.