Enterprise Infrastructure Architect

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

📋 Description

• Collaborate with enterprise clients to comprehend their business strategies, key drivers, and limitations, translating these into a technology roadmap.

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

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

• Define architecture principles, standards, and reference models.

• Analyze trade-offs among cloud, container, infrastructure, and AI solutions.

• Provide clear and defensible recommendations regarding technology compatibility within the larger ecosystem.

• Act as a trusted advisor, bridging the gap between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams.

• Present architectures, roadmaps, and their justifications to customer executives and hands-on engineers.

• Engage in-person with clients across various regions during discovery, design, and advisory processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Capability to think comprehensively about enterprise technology and relate technology decisions to business objectives.

• Extensive knowledge of private cloud platforms, including OpenStack.

• Preferred experience with Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK).

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

• Knowledge of multi-cluster management tools such as Mirantis k0rdent.

• Understanding of workload orchestration across clusters and various environments.

• Insight into VMware vSphere estate modernization, virtualization strategies, and migration pathways.

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

• Proficiency in automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or other infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management methods.

• Comprehension of cloud and container platform components and their interconnectivity.

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

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

• Willingness and ability 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 Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a plus.

• Familiarity with Software-Defined Storage (SDS) is a plus.

• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or equivalent is a plus.

• Exposure to hybrid or multi-cloud strategies and workload portability is a plus.

• Proficiency in additional European languages beyond English is a plus.

• Relevant cloud or container industry certifications are a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity to work with a recognized leader in the cloud infrastructure sector located in Silicon Valley.

• Collaborate with passionate, skilled, and engaging colleagues.

• Access to professional development and training opportunities.

• Participation in conferences and working groups.

• Enjoy company outings, happy hours, hackathons, and tech talks.

• Competitive compensation package complemented by a robust benefits plan.

• Work in an open, collaborative environment with continuous growth opportunities.

• Engage in cutting-edge, open-source innovation.