Enterprise Infrastructure Architect – Professional Services

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

📋 Description

• Collaborate with enterprise clients to grasp their business strategies, motivations, and limitations, and convert them into technology directives.

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

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

• Set architecture principles, standards, and reference models.

• Assess trade-offs among cloud, container, infrastructure, and AI alternatives, providing well-founded recommendations.

• Serve as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams.

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

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven ability to link technology choices to enterprise business objectives.

• Extensive knowledge of private cloud platforms, including OpenStack.

• Proficient in Kubernetes-based container platforms, such as Mirantis k0s and Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE).

• Familiar with multi-cluster management tools like Mirantis k0rdent.

• Comprehension of workload orchestration across various clusters and environments.

• Familiarity with vSphere/VMware environments and paths for modernization or migration.

• Understanding of bare-metal provisioning and the physical infrastructure lifecycle.

• Experience with automation tools like Ansible, Terraform, or similar infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management methodologies.

• Knowledge of cloud and container platform components and their integration.

• Insight into enterprise AI infrastructure, model serving, inference stacks, data management, security, and governance considerations.

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

• Willingness and ability to travel, mainly 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 roles in customer-facing architecture or advisory capacities.

• Experience with Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK) is preferred.

• Familiarity with Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Software-Defined Storage (SDS) is preferred.

• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF is preferred.

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

• Additional proficiency in European languages beyond English is preferred.

• Relevant cloud or container certifications are preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Collaborate with a well-established leader in the cloud infrastructure sector based in Silicon Valley.

• Work alongside passionate, skilled, and engaging colleagues.

• Assist Fortune 500 and Global 2000 clients in implementing next-generation cloud technologies.

• Be part of pioneering, open-source innovations.

• Opportunities for professional development and training.

• Participate in conferences and working groups.

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

• Competitive compensation package with a robust benefits plan.

• Flexible remote work options.