Position Summary:
Our client is seeking a highly experienced Infrastructure Architect to help lead enterprise-wide data center transformation and infrastructure modernization efforts. This individual will provide architectural oversight and technical direction for a large-scale migration involving compute, storage, networking, database, virtualization, and disaster recovery environments.
A major component of this initiative involves transitioning infrastructure from existing legacy data center locations, including Charlotte, into Equinix facilities in Ashburn. The architect will help define the future-state infrastructure design, establish migration strategies, and ensure the organization's technology environment is positioned for long-term scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency.
This is a senior-level architecture role centered on solution design, infrastructure planning, and technical coordination. The individual will assess current-state environments, evaluate architectural alternatives, identify dependencies and risks, and develop actionable migration approaches in partnership with specialized engineering teams. The ideal candidate brings deep enterprise infrastructure knowledge and the ability to translate complex technical requirements into practical architectural solutions.
Primary Responsibilities
- Define and oversee enterprise infrastructure architecture supporting large-scale data center consolidation, migration, and modernization programs.
- Establish end-to-end transition strategies covering server and compute environments, storage, network infrastructure, databases, virtualization, and disaster recovery.
- Create comprehensive migration blueprints that account for system dependencies, resource allocation, equipment requirements, sequencing, capacity, and execution schedules.
- Architect the relocation of virtualized workloads and physical infrastructure from legacy facilities into Equinix data center environments.
- Review existing infrastructure designs and configurations, assess technical constraints, and recommend appropriate migration solutions based on risk, performance, and scalability.
- Drive the evolution of disaster recovery architecture from traditional data center-based recovery toward application-specific recovery strategies.
- Define repeatable disaster recovery standards and architectural patterns, with an initial emphasis on active-passive configurations and opportunities for future enhancement.
- Work alongside infrastructure engineering teams to implement consistent architecture standards, reusable technology patterns, and automation practices.
- Lead infrastructure forecasting and capacity assessments across compute, storage, networking, and physical data center resources.
- Evaluate physical data center requirements, including cage space, equipment density, infrastructure footprint, and projected growth.
- Establish ongoing capacity management practices to ensure available resources support business expansion and migration timelines.
- Assess current network designs and develop modernization recommendations involving network isolation, traffic segmentation, and inter-data-center connectivity.
- Define target-state network architecture to replace existing legacy blue/green/yellow segmentation models.
- Partner with network engineering teams to improve segmentation across production, development/non-production, database, and shared infrastructure environments.
- Identify opportunities to streamline infrastructure transitions through automation, orchestration, provisioning, and disaster recovery capabilities.
- Coordinate architectural efforts across server, storage, network, database, and infrastructure engineering groups to maintain alignment throughout implementation.
- Create and maintain technical architecture diagrams, migration strategies, capacity forecasts, roadmaps, and solution recommendations.
- 15+ years of professional experience in enterprise infrastructure engineering, infrastructure architecture, or data center architecture.
- Extensive background designing, supporting, and modernizing complex enterprise data center environments.
- Demonstrated success developing architecture and migration strategies for large-scale infrastructure relocation or transformation initiatives.
- Broad technical understanding across enterprise infrastructure disciplines, including:
- Compute, server, and hardware architecture.
- Enterprise storage technologies and platforms.
- Network architecture, connectivity, and segmentation.
- Virtualization and virtual machine environments.
- Database infrastructure and enterprise appliances.
- Disaster recovery, resiliency, and business continuity.
- Strong architectural expertise with VMware and enterprise virtualization technologies.
- Experience with Cisco infrastructure, including UCS platforms, routers, and switches.
- Knowledge of enterprise storage solutions, ideally including Pure Storage and/or Dell PowerScale/PowerMax. Specific platform experience should be confirmed.
- Experience working with Palo Alto firewalls and enterprise network security architectures.
- Proven ability to perform infrastructure capacity assessments, resource forecasting, and long-term planning.
- Strong understanding of disaster recovery design, including application-level recovery approaches and active-passive configurations.
- Ability to assess complex existing environments, identify design limitations, and develop scalable future-state architecture.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence technical stakeholders and coordinate across multiple engineering organizations.
- Previous experience working within Equinix data center facilities.
- Involvement in multi-location or geographically distributed data center migration initiatives.
- Experience relocating physical server infrastructure and enterprise database appliances.
- Background developing infrastructure automation, orchestration, and provisioning strategies.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automated infrastructure deployment.
- Experience redesigning legacy network environments and implementing modern segmentation strategies.
- Success establishing enterprise architecture standards and repeatable disaster recovery frameworks across engineering teams.
- Experience in financial services or another highly regulated enterprise environment.
- Virtualization: VMware
- Compute Infrastructure: Cisco UCS
- Networking: Cisco routers and switches
- Storage: Pure Storage, Dell PowerScale / PowerMax
- Network Security: Palo Alto firewalls
- Data Center Facilities: Equinix
- Disaster Recovery: Legacy VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), with a strategic shift toward application-level recovery architectures
- Core Initiatives: Data center migration, infrastructure modernization, network segmentation, capacity management, automation, and orchestration
Estimated Min Rate: $63.00
Estimated Max Rate: $90.00
What’s In It for You?
We welcome you to be a part of the largest and legendary global staffing companies to meet your career aspirations. Yoh’s network of client companies has been employing professionals like you for over 65 years in the U.S., UK and Canada. Join Yoh’s extensive talent community that will provide you with access to Yoh’s vast network of opportunities and gain access to this exclusive opportunity available to you. Benefit eligibility is in accordance with applicable laws and client requirements. Benefits include:
- Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision Benefits (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
- Health Savings Account (HSA) (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
- Life & Disability Insurance (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
- MetLife Voluntary Benefits
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 401K Retirement Savings Plan
- Direct Deposit & weekly epayroll
- Referral Bonus Programs
- Certification and training opportunities
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