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Infrastructure Architect

Job Location:

Deerfield, WI - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 11 June 2026 (30+ days ago)

Application Deadline: 8 September 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

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Job Details:-

Role:- Infrastructure Architect

Location:- Deerfield IL Onsite

Experience Required:-

Job Type:- Full-Time with TCS

Salary Range:- $130000 to $160000 Per Year

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Required/Preferred Certifications:

Additional Desirable:

Enterprise Architecture Leadership

Own and evolve the Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture (EIA) framework across on-premises co-location and hybrid environments.
Serve as Design Authority for all major infrastructure initiatives - chairing Architecture Review Boards (ARB) and Technical Design Authority (TDA) forums.
Produce and maintain authoritative architecture artefacts: reference architecture HLDs LLDs standards documents and technology roadmaps.
Engage directly with C-suite and senior business stakeholders to translate business requirements into infrastructure strategy.
Define technology lifecycle management strategies: refresh cycles decommission plans and vendor roadmap alignment.

Data Centre Architecture & Operations

Lead the design and governance of enterprise-grade on-premises data centres including Tier III/IV facilities Co-location and private data halls.
Architect compute platforms: bare-metal servers rack design blade systems and high-density configurations.
Define storage architecture: SAN (Fibre Channel iSCSI) NAS object storage (e.g. NetApp Pure Storage Dell EMC HPE Nimble).
Integrate infrastructure pipelines with enterprise CMDB (ServiceNow) for automated asset registration and compliance reporting.
Oversee power and cooling architecture: UPS systems PDUs hot/cold aisle containment DCIM tooling and PUE optimization.
Design and govern hypervisor and virtualization platforms: VMware vSphere/vSAN/NSX Microsoft Hyper-V and KVM environments.
Lead data centre migration consolidation and modernization programs - from planning through cutover and Hypercare.
Define backup replication and disaster recovery architectures: RTO/RPO targets DR site design and regular DR testing governance

Enterprise Networking Architecture

Architect and own the enterprise WAN LAN and data centre fabric - spanning campus branch and multi-site environments.
Design and govern core/distribution/access layer switching architectures using vendors such as Cisco Juniper Arista or HPE Aruba.
Lead SD-WAN design and deployment programs including overlay/underlay architecture traffic engineering And policy frameworks.
Architect MPLS BGP OSPF IS-IS and VRF-based routing for complex multi-site enterprise networks.
Design secure network segmentation: VLANs VXLANs micro-segmentation and macro-segmentation strategies.
Define and govern enterprise firewall and perimeter security architecture (Palo Alto Fortinet Check Point Cisco ASA/FTD).
Oversee load balancing architecture (F5 Citrix ADC / NetScaler HAProxy) across data centre and Application tiers.
Lead network performance management: QoS frameworks traffic shaping capacity modelling and link aggregation.
Define Out-of-Band (OOB) management network architecture and remote hands procedures.

Security Architecture & Compliance

Embed Zero Trust Network Architecture (ZTNA) principles across on-premises and hybrid environments.
Define IAM and PAM architecture: Active Directory LDAP RADIUS TACACS CyberArk or equivalent.
Govern infrastructure security posture: patch management vulnerability scanning hardening baselines (CIS DISA STIG).
Ensure compliance with regulatory frameworks relevant to the customers industry (ISO 27001 SOC 2 NIST CSF PCI-DSS GDPR HIPAA).
Develop and maintain Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) architecture and test programs.

Observability ITSM & Operational Excellence

Define observability and monitoring architecture: SNMP NetFlow/sFlow IPFIX and tooling such as SolarWinds Zabbix PRTG or Datadog.
Establish ITSM and CMDB governance: ITIL-aligned change incident and problem management aligned to ServiceNow or equivalent platforms.
Own infrastructure capacity planning: modelling future demand across compute storage and network resources.
Define SLAs SLOs and operational KPIs; drive continuous service improvement programs.

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Yogesh Kumar

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