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Position: Sr. Enterprise/ IT Infrastructure Architect Location: Poughkeepsie, NY (Remote) Duration: 6-12+ Months Contract Job Description: Position Overview The Senior IT Infrastructure Architect is responsible for designing, modernizing, and optimizing enterprise infrastructure platforms across on‐premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. This role provides strategic architectural leadership, ensures operational excellence, and guides the adoption of modern infrastructure frameworks, automation, observability, and governance practices that enable secure, scalable, and resilient IT services. Key Responsibilities Strategic Architecture & Design • Develop enterprise‐level infrastructure architecture roadmaps that support business objectives, IT strategy, and digital transformation initiatives. • Define standards for compute, storage, network, virtualization, and hybrid cloud platforms, ensuring consistency, scalability, and lifecycle management. • Lead modernization initiatives including automation, Infrastructure‐as‐Code, containerization, monitoring/observability, and AIOps capabilities. • Experience in Terraform, Jenkins, Github etc. Technology Leadership • Serve as a technical thought leader guiding enterprise decisions related to cloud engineering, operations, ITSM, and infrastructure services . • Transform complex business and technical requirements into detailed architectural blueprints. • Evaluate emerging technologies and provide recommendations aligned to enterprise strategy and operational readiness . Operational Excellence • Partner with operations, engineering, and security teams to ensure resilient, performant infrastructure services that meet SLAs and compliance requirements. • Lead service industrialization efforts, including standardized service catalog patterns, incident and event workflows, guardrails, and operational readiness. • Drive process automation across provisioning, monitoring, patching, and lifecycle management. Governance & Compliance • Ensure infrastructure architectures adhere to governance frameworks, security policies, and risk management guidelines. • Build documentation, architectural standards, and technical guidelines to ensure consistency across teams. • Conduct design reviews and provide architectural oversight for major infrastructure initiatives. Collaboration & Leadership • Collaborate with cross‐functional teams—IT Operations, Cloud, Network, Security, and Application groups—to align solutions and ensure end‐to‐end service quality . • Mentor engineers and foster a high‐performance culture focused on continuous improvement. • Provide executive‐level communication and technical leadership across the organization.

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Position: Sr. Enterprise/ IT Infrastructure Architect
Location: Poughkeepsie, NY (Remote)
Duration: 6-12+ Months Contract
Position Overview
Strategic Architecture & Design
Develop enterprise‐level infrastructure architecture roadmaps that support business objectives, IT strategy, and digital transformation initiatives.
Define standards for compute, storage, network, virtualization, and hybrid cloud platforms, ensuring consistency, scalability, and lifecycle management.
Lead modernization initiatives including automation, Infrastructure‐as‐Code, containerization, monitoring/observability, and AIOps capabilities.
Experience in Terraform, Jenkins, Github etc.
Technology Leadership
Serve as a technical thought leader guiding enterprise decisions related to cloud engineering, operations, ITSM, and infrastructure services .
Transform complex business and technical requirements into detailed architectural blueprints.
Evaluate emerging technologies and provide recommendations aligned to enterprise strategy and operational readiness .
Operational Excellence
Partner with operations, engineering, and security teams to ensure resilient, performant infrastructure services that meet SLAs and compliance requirements.
Lead service industrialization efforts, including standardized service catalog patterns, incident and event workflows, guardrails, and operational readiness.
Drive process automation across provisioning, monitoring, patching, and lifecycle management.
Governance & Compliance
Ensure infrastructure architectures adhere to governance frameworks, security policies, and risk management guidelines.
Build documentation, architectural standards, and technical guidelines to ensure consistency across teams.
Conduct design reviews and provide architectural oversight for major infrastructure initiatives.
Collaboration & Leadership
Collaborate with cross‐functional teams—IT Operations, Cloud, Network, Security, and Application groups—to align solutions and ensure end‐to‐end service quality .
Mentor engineers and foster a high‐performance culture focused on continuous improvement.

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