Lead Infrastructure Architect

Job summary

The Lead Infrastructure Architect at FSRA is responsible for shaping and maintaining the organization's hybrid cloud environment, providing technical leadership, and ensuring secure and scalable technology platforms.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in infrastructure engineering
• at least 5 years in a senior or lead technical role
• Extensive hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure
• Strong expertise across core infrastructure domains
• Deep understanding of hybrid cloud architectures
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about infrastructure needs
• Deep knowledge of enterprise infrastructure
• Strong understanding of Active Directory, Azure AD, DNS, firewalls, and virtual networking
• Experience supporting and integrating Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Office 365
• Knowledge of backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning
• Working knowledge of security best practices
• Ability to lead teams and communicate effectively
• Excellent analytical and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Establishes and maintains cloud architecture governance
• Leads long-term infrastructure roadmap strategic planning
• Builds scalable, secure, and cost-optimized environments
• Leads end-to-end capacity forecasting and scaling strategies
• Oversees enterprise performance engineering
• Establishes proactive observability and alerting
• Leads enterprise automation initiatives
• Strengthens FSRA’s security posture
• Maintains enterprise disaster recovery, backup, and failover plans
• Establishes reliability engineering practices
• Leads architecture reviews and technical governance boards
• Operates as the technical lead for infrastructure delivery
• Leads major incident response
• Defines and maintains infrastructure standards
• Aligns infrastructure strategies and operations with compliance and audit standards
• Owns key components of the infrastructure modernization roadmap
• Works closely with architecture, development, and data teams
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• Interacts with vendors and managed service providers

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