Infrastructure Architect - Remote - Octopus by RTG

Role Overview

Infrastructure Architect – Remote position with Robusta for one of their clients. This role defines and governs infrastructure architecture across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

Role Purpose

Design and govern scalable, secure, highly available, and resilient infrastructure solutions that support enterprise applications and platforms while ensuring alignment with Enterprise Architecture, technology standards, business requirements, and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture Design & Definition

• Define and maintain infrastructure architecture, standards, principles, and guidelines.
• Design cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure architectures.
• Define compute, storage, network, and connectivity architecture.
• Define high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and resilience architectures.
• Define infrastructure capacity, scalability, and performance requirements.
• Design infrastructure environments to support enterprise applications and platforms.
• Define infrastructure integration, connectivity, and communication requirements.

Review & Assessment

• Review and provide architecture recommendations for infrastructure designs and major projects.
• Assess current infrastructure against target architecture and identify gaps and modernization requirements.
• Identify infrastructure risks, dependencies, constraints, and potential impacts.

Governance & Compliance

• Ensure infrastructure architecture supports business, application, security, and technology requirements.
• Ensure compliance with approved Enterprise Architecture, technology standards, security requirements, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Maintain infrastructure architecture documentation, diagrams, standards, and decision records.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Transformation

• Work closely with Cybersecurity, Network, Cloud, DevOps, Application, and Technology teams.
• Support infrastructure modernization, transformation, cloud adoption, and optimization initiatives.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of overall experience in Infrastructure, Cloud, Technology Architecture, or related technical roles.
• Significant experience in infrastructure architecture within large and complex enterprise environments.
• Strong experience in cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure architecture.
• Strong experience designing high availability, disaster recovery, resilience, and scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure and/or AWS.
• Experience working with DevOps, Cybersecurity, Network, Cloud, and Application teams.
• Experience in banking or financial services is highly preferred.
• Experience working in a SAMA-regulated environment is an advantage.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong knowledge of compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure technologies.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure security, connectivity, and integration requirements.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure standards, architecture governance, and technology lifecycle management.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Additional Information

• Relevant certifications such as TOGAF, AWS/Azure Architecture, or other recognized infrastructure/cloud certifications are preferred.