Role description

Job Role Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Job Location :- Mississauga, Ontario

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect to lead the design governance modernization and strategic evolution of enterprise middleware and application infrastructure platforms across onpremises cloud and hybrid environments

This role is responsible for defining architecture standards designing scalable and secure infrastructure solutions driving platform modernization and providing technical leadership across middleware hosting web infrastructure load balancing automation cloud platforms observability and infrastructure security The Infrastructure Architect will work closely with application teams DevOps cybersecurity cloud engineering and operations teams to ensure resilient highperforming and enterprisecompliant platform services supporting critical business applications

Key Responsibilities

Design cloud and container platform architecture patterns for AWS Azure Docker Kubernetes OpenShift ECS EKS AKS and Fargatebased application hosting solutions

Design scalable resilient secure and highavailability infrastructure solutions for enterprise application platforms including JBoss EAP Spring Boot Nodejs Apache HTTP Server F5 LTM VMware AWS Azure and container orchestration platforms

Lead infrastructure architecture project delivery and platform initiatives including new application onboarding cloud adoption modernization migrations upgrades and disaster recovery from solution design through implementation operational handover and continuous improvement

Perform technology evaluation technical due diligence vendor assessment and proofofconcept activities to assess compare and validate infrastructure platforms and technology stacks recommending solutions aligned with architectural operational security and business requirements

Provide architectural direction for high availability scalability performance optimization capacity planning fault tolerance disaster recovery and operational resilience

Define infrastructure integration requirements covering DNS SSLTLS termination certificate lifecycle management reverse proxy architecture traffic routing network connectivity and load balancing strategies

Define automation and Infrastructure as Code standards for infrastructure provisioning middleware deployment configuration management and CICD integration using technologies such as Ansible Jenkins GitHub Python PowerShell Bash and YAML

Architect observability and operational monitoring frameworks including Dynatrace centralized logging ing performance monitoring and platform health visibility

Define and govern enterprise infrastructure architecture standards reference designs engineering best practices lifecycle management policies security baselines and compliance requirements own the infrastructure architecture review and gating process

Partner with cybersecurity teams to assess infrastructure risks align solution designs with enterprise security controls and support audit compliance and secure architecture initiatives

Provide technical leadership mentoring and architectural guidance to infrastructure engineers and operational support teams

Develop and maintain architecture documentation including highlevel designs lowlevel designs technical standards operational architecture migration strategies and implementation roadmaps

Participate in incident reviews root cause analysis change governance and problem management activities to improve longterm platform reliability and service quality

Candidate Profile

10 years of experience in infrastructure engineering or enterprise infrastructure architecture

Proven architecture experience designing enterprise infrastructure solutions in complex onpremises cloud or hybrid environments

Deep handson expertise with enterprise middleware and application hosting platforms including JBoss EAP Spring Boot Nodejs Apache HTTP Server and F5 LTM

Experience designing and supporting AWS andor Azure cloud infrastructure solutions

Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker Kubernetes OpenShift ECS EKS AKS or Fargate

Strong automation and DevOps knowledge including Ansible Jenkins GitHub Infrastructure as Code and scripting using Python PowerShell or Bash

Experience designing infrastructure monitoring observability and logging solutions

Strong understanding of enterprise security architecture infrastructure hardening certificate management patch governance and compliance controls

Strong knowledge of Linux platforms RHEL Amazon Linux and VMware virtualization

Strong knowledge of enterprise networking concepts including DNS reverse proxy SSLTLS traffic routing load balancing and application delivery architecture

Experience supporting highavailability businesscritical r