Infrastructure Solutions Architect

Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented Team.

Job Title:Infrastructure Solutions Architect

Location(s):Richmond VA


Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled Infrastructure Solutions Architect to join the Solutions Engineering & Architecture Team (SEAT) as a Solutions Engineer. This role is responsible for evaluating designing and guiding the implementation of secure scalable interoperable and supportable technology solutions that align with enterprise architecture standards.

The Solutions Engineer will work closely with the Office of Information Management (OIM) infrastructure teams cloud engineers application developers security teams data teams and enterprise architects to translate business and technical requirements into practical actionable solution designs.

The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on engineering expertise with architectural thinking and has experience designing and supporting modern infrastructure environments across both cloud and on-premises platforms. This position will play a key role in developing resilient sustainable and enterprise-ready technology solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Evaluate business and technical requirements and translate them into comprehensive infrastructure and technology solution designs.
• Develop secure scalable highly available and supportable architectures aligned with enterprise standards and technology strategies.
• Partner with OIM and cross-functional technology teams to define technical approaches and implementation roadmaps.
• Design solutions spanning cloud on-premises hybrid networking compute storage virtualization and related infrastructure technologies.
• Collaborate with application security data infrastructure and cloud engineering teams to ensure solutions are interoperable and operationally sustainable.
• Review existing environments and identify opportunities for modernization optimization standardization and improved resiliency.
• Produce architecture diagrams technical specifications design documentation and implementation guidance.
• Evaluate technology products platforms and services against enterprise requirements and architectural standards.
• Provide technical guidance during solution implementation and assist teams in resolving complex infrastructure and architecture challenges.
• Ensure proposed solutions address security performance availability scalability maintainability and disaster recovery requirements.
• Identify technical risks dependencies constraints and opportunities and recommend appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Participate in architecture reviews technical governance and solution design discussions.
• Help establish and promote infrastructure architecture standards patterns and best practices.

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience in infrastructure engineering solutions architecture or infrastructure architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement enterprise-scale technology solutions.
• Hands-on experience with both cloud and on-premises infrastructure environments.
• Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure architecture integration security scalability and high availability.
• Experience collaborating with infrastructure application development security data and enterprise architecture teams.
• Ability to translate complex business and technical requirements into clear and actionable technical designs.
• Strong troubleshooting analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent technical documentation and communication skills.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with major cloud platforms such as AWS Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.
• Experience with virtualization compute storage networking identity and enterprise infrastructure services.
• Experience designing hybrid and multi-platform environments.
• Knowledge of infrastructure automation Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps practices.
• Experience with security architecture resiliency disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Experience working within enterprise architecture frameworks standards and governance processes.

Core Competencies

• Infrastructure Architecture
• Solutions Engineering
• Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure
• Enterprise Architecture
• Technical Design
• Systems Integration
• Security & Risk Management
• Scalability & High Availability
• Infrastructure Modernization
• Technical Leadership
• Cross-Functional Collaboration

Ampcus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.