IT Infrastructure Architect

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

📋 Description

• Create target infrastructure architectures, including compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and backup solutions.

• Perform audits on existing infrastructure and formulate transformation roadmaps.

• Establish hybrid architectures and interconnection strategies with public cloud environments.

• Develop business continuity and disaster recovery plans (BCP/DRP) and validate them through testing.

• Provide technical leadership for migration, consolidation, and data center redesign initiatives.

• Set industrialization and automation standards, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management.

• Ensure alignment between infrastructure decisions and security requirements.

• Assist in the technical preparation of responses to requests for proposals, including solution design, rationale, sizing, and cost estimates.

• Present and advocate for proposals during client presentations.

• Participate in the technical qualification of requirements and the creation of transformation roadmaps.

• Develop and enhance packaged infrastructure offerings.

• Create accelerators such as repositories, technology matrices, sizing models, and audit toolkits.

• Help structure the Infrastructure vertical and document lessons learned.

• Lead the technical community within the vertical.

• Engage in technical recruitment interviews and evaluate candidates.

⛳️ Requirements

• Master’s degree and professional experience, or an engineering degree, or equivalent qualifications.

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in infrastructure, with at least 3 years in an architecture role.

• Virtualization expertise, particularly with VMware vSphere, and openness to alternatives such as Proxmox, Nutanix, or Hyper-V.

• Proficient in systems including Linux (RHEL, Debian) and Windows Server, along with Active Directory.

• Experience with storage and backup solutions, including SAN/NAS and backup/replication technologies.

• Knowledge of networking concepts such as routing, switching, segmentation, load balancing, and firewalling.

• Familiarity with automation tools like Ansible, Terraform, and scripting languages (PowerShell, Bash, Python).

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar.

• Expertise in hybrid cloud, including understanding IaaS models and interconnection mechanisms.

• Strong awareness of security challenges, including hardening, segmentation, and privileged access management.

• Ability to maintain a high-level perspective while remaining grounded in operational realities.

• Excellent teaching skills and clear documentation practices.

• A proactive approach with a desire to take initiative.

• Attention to detail and strong risk awareness.

• Certifications such as VMware VCP, Red Hat (RHCE), Cisco (CCNP), or equivalent are advantageous.

• A cloud certification at the associate level or higher is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity for remote work.

• A dedicated training and certification budget, with a personalized plan developed in collaboration with your vertical lead.

• Access to our technical lab facilities.

• A well-structured technical community featuring weekly vertical meetings, monthly practice sessions, and regular knowledge-sharing events.

• A career progression path toward expertise (principal architect, vertical lead) or management roles.

• Involvement in meaningful projects related to critical infrastructure for high-demand clients.