Infrastructure Solution Architect

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Infrastructure Solution Architect – Hybrid Azure / Data Center
We are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Solution Architect to extend Enterprise Architecture (EA) and translate high-level infrastructure designs into detailed architecture and implementation guidance for hybrid environments.
Key Responsibilities
Design hybrid infrastructure across Microsoft Azure, enterprise data centers, and colocation facilities.
Develop architecture for compute, storage, networking, virtualization, connectivity, and workload placement.
Define high availability, resiliency, failover, and disaster recovery strategies.
Guide engineering teams from architecture/design through implementation and production.
Support SRE practices, including SLIs/SLOs, observability, monitoring, telemetry, and operational readiness.
Drive infrastructure automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation).
Support scalability, performance, capacity management, and infrastructure cost optimization.
Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Platform Engineering, SRE, and infrastructure teams to ensure architecture standards are followed.
Required Experience
10+ years of Infrastructure Architecture experience with recent Solution Architect / Infrastructure Architect experience.
Strong Azure Cloud + hybrid infrastructure architecture experience.
Recent hands-on Data Center and Colocation architecture experience — cloud-only profiles will not be considered.
Strong experience with physical infrastructure: racks, power, cooling, cabling, circuits, cross-connects, cage builds, and capacity planning.
Experience with data center migration/consolidation, including migration into or out of colocation facilities.
Strong knowledge of VMware, compute, storage, SAN/NAS, networking, firewalls, load balancing, backup, and DR.
Experience with infrastructure resiliency across multiple data center locations.
Experience working with colo providers and facilities teams.
Knowledge of SRE, observability, SLIs/SLOs, and infrastructure automation.
Experience with Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, or similar IaC technologies.
Experience with architecture governance and Enterprise Architecture teams.
Banking / Financial Services experience preferred.
EEO: “Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.”

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