Infrastructure Solution Architect

We are looking for an Infrastructure Solution Architect to join our Enterprise Architecture team who will collaborate with the Information Technology and Business Departments and make the company growth optimal from the perspective of infrastructure in use.

The role requires an in-depth understanding of AWS services, cloud architecture principles, infrastructure optimization techniques, cost management strategies, and strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams. As an Architect role, it also assumes longer-term (strategic) thinking and planning skills.

Requirements:

• Working experience of 3+ years as Cloud Architect or Infrastructure Architect;
• Practical experience with AWS and K8s;
• Strong background in designing architecture and modern application platforms (microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, data pipelines, etc.);
• Ability to determine system reliability and performance problems and discover, validate, and offer solutions;
• Clear communication skills & the ability to build strong business relationships; experience in negotiation at a high level;
• Good documentation writing skills (specification, policy, requirements, instructions, roadmap);
• Long-term (strategic) thinking;
• Ability to communicate effectively in English is required
• Practical experience with other public clouds (GCP, Azure) and on-prem;
• Understanding network engineering;
• Solid knowledge of physical infrastructure in data centers (rack-mount servers, network devices, power/cooling considerations, remote hands coordination, etc.);
• Understanding of hybrid environments and integration between cloud and on-prem systems;
• Understanding of EA frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, SEI Software Architecture, SAFe Architect);
• Understanding of general software development processes within the Agile framework (Scrum, SAFe);
• Practical experience in building and maintaining medium-big-sized (~ 1k+ components with several thousand deployments in multiple regions) distributed architecture for mission-critical tasks;
• Experience in budgeting, contract management, software asset management, and CMDB tools

Responsibilities:

• Develop and enforce infrastructure policies, standards, and best practices to improve the processes with the target of optimal infrastructure utilization, software reliability and performance.
• Plan and supervise execution of complex infrastructure migrations.
• Implement tools and processes (e.g., FinOps) to improve monitoring and forecasting of infrastructure expenses, with cost allocation to the company's structure. Use cloud economic principles to save costs (saving plans, reservations, commitment options, etc.).
• Identify and address workload placement issues, including under/overutilization, suboptimal infrastructure type choice, misconfiguration, etc.
• Design and evolve cloud architecture to meet scalability, resilience, security, and performance requirements, aligned with business goals and compliance constraints;
• Define hybrid infrastructure strategy, including integration between AWS and regular Data centers;
• Collaborate with development, DevOps, security, and business teams to support architectural decisions and ensure infrastructure is aligned with all requirements
• Build the infrastructure part of the Service Catalog.
• Keep an eye on the latest updates in AWS technologies (e.g., new EC2 instance families), cost rate economics (e.g., saving plans, regional changes, etc.)
• Ensure the “build versus buy” principle is always considered to support business needs optimally.