Infrastructure Architect

Job Title: Infrastructure Architect
Duration: 12 months
Location: Poughkeepsie, New York (Zip Code - 12601) (Hybrid)

(U.S. Citizen, Green Card Holder, and GC EAD)

Interview Mode: Microsoft Teams
Local candidates will be given preference

Job Description:
Position Overview The Senior IT Infrastructure Architect is responsible for designing, modernizing, and optimizing enterprise infrastructure platforms across on-premises, hybrid-cloud, and native-cloud environments. This role provides strategic architectural leadership, ensures operational excellence, and guides the adoption of modern infrastructure frameworks, automation, observability, and governance practices that enable secure, scalable, and resilient IT services.

Key Responsibilities
Strategic Architecture & Design

Aligns infrastructure technology with future business needs, leading the strategy for technology adoption, upgrades, and modernization. Develops comprehensive blueprints and high-level designs for software, hardware, and network infrastructure, ensuring they meet business and technical requirements. Define infrastructure as code (IaC) & automation tool standards for declarative provisioning and infrastructure lifecycle Lead modernization initiatives including automation, Infrastructure-as-Code, containerization, monitoring/observability, and AIOps capabilities. Develops and tests disaster recovery and business continuity plans to ensure systems are resilient and available. Evaluates vendor solutions, selects technology, and collaborates with IT teams to guide the implementation of technical standards Technology Leadership Serve as a technical thought leader guiding enterprise decisions related to cloud engineering, operations, ITSM, and infrastructure services. Transfor