Enterprise Infrastructure Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Europe.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with enterprise clients to comprehend their business strategies, motivations, and constraints, translating these into technological directions.

• Evaluate existing technology landscapes and craft coherent target-state architectures that align with business goals.

• Create transformation roadmaps that balance business value, risk, cost, and operational realities.

• Define architectural principles, standards, and reference models.

• Analyze trade-offs across cloud, container, infrastructure, and AI options, providing well-founded recommendations.

• Serve as a trusted advisor and intermediary between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams.

• Communicate architectures, roadmaps, and justifications to executives and hands-on engineers.

• Engage with clients on-site across regions during discovery, design, and advisory phases.

⛳️ Requirements

• Capability to think comprehensively about the enterprise and link technology choices to business objectives.

• Extensive knowledge of private cloud platforms, particularly OpenStack; experience with Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK) is preferred.

• Proficiency with Kubernetes-based container platforms, including Mirantis k0s and Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE).

• Familiarity with multi-cluster management tools such as Mirantis k0rdent.

• Understanding of workload orchestration across clusters and various environments.

• Knowledge of VMware vSphere estate modernization, virtualization strategies, and migration pathways.

• Experience with bare-metal provisioning and the physical infrastructure lifecycle.

• Background in automation and infrastructure-as-code/configuration-management practices like Ansible or Terraform.

• Insight into cloud and container platform components and their integration.

• Awareness of enterprise AI infrastructure, model serving, inference stacks, data, security, and governance implications.

• Strong communication skills to convey architecture and rationale to both business and technical audiences.

• Willingness to travel, primarily within the EU and US.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• Over 10 years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering, including customer-facing architecture or advisory roles.

• Familiarity with SDN, SDS, enterprise architecture frameworks like TOGAF, hybrid or multi-cloud strategies, workload portability, additional European languages, and relevant industry certifications are advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for professional development and training.

• Participation in conferences and working groups.

• Company events, happy hours, hackathons, and tech talks.

• Competitive compensation package complemented by a robust benefits plan.

• Flexible remote work arrangements.