Infrastructure Architect

EBSCO Industries Inc.; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Birmingham seeks an Infrastructure Architect to design and implement cloud infrastructures that drive digital transformation. The role involves crafting enterprise-class solutions, leading cloud transformations, and ensuring security across systems. Ideal candidates will have extensive AWS experience and a passion for mentoring technical teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS.
• Proven ability to define end-to-end IT architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design comprehensive cloud architectures integrating applications and services.
• Develop AWS infrastructure blueprints balancing innovation and security.
• Champion Infrastructure as Code practices for consistency.

Skills

AWS

Security

Cloud Architecture

Infrastructure as Code

Mentoring

Education

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Keycloak

AWS GuardDuty

AWS Shield

AWS WAF

SSL/TLS

Job description

EBSCO Industries, Inc. (EBSCO), headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is one of the largest privately held and family-owned companies in the United States. EBSCO was founded in 1944 by an entrepreneur who was passionate about honoring our commitments to our customers, rejecting the status quo, and seeking to continuously improve our team. We continue to operate that way today, with a passion for our people and our businesses succeeding together. EBSCO has grown and evolved over time into a holding company with a global portfolio comprised of dozens of entities in over 15 separate industries/markets, including Information services, outdoor products, real estate, manufacturing and distribution, and insurance services. We provide valuable support services to our subsidiaries to support their growth. We hire passionate people, driven to grow, because we know the success of EBSCO depends on the long-term success of our businesses and our teams.

At EBSCO Industries, we're reimagining our technology landscape to create powerful, resilient systems that drive business value. Our Corporate IT team in Birmingham is seeking a strategic Infrastructure Architect who can transform complex business requirements into elegant technical solutions. As our Infrastructure Architect, you'll be the mastermind behind our cloud infrastructure strategy, designing secure, scalable, and cost-effective systems that become the foundation of EBSCO's digital transformation. Your architectures will empower our business to innovate with confidence.

What You'll Do

• Craft Enterprise-Class Solutions - Design comprehensive cloud architectures that seamlessly integrate applications, data, and services across our business ecosystem
• Lead Cloud Transformation - Develop forward-thinking AWS infrastructure blueprints that balance innovation, security, and operational excellence
• Standardize Through Code - Champion Infrastructure as Code practices that ensure consistency, compliance, and repeatability
• Secure Our Digital Assets - Design multi-layered security frameworks that protect our systems and data from emerging threats
• Mentor Technical Teams - Provide architectural guidance that elevates our entire organization's cloud capabilities

Required Skills:

• 5 + years' experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, and Route 53
• Proven ability to define end-to-end IT architectures (processes, applications, data, technology) that align with enterprise standards and integrate seamlessly across services
• Experience architecting and provisioning AWS environments using Terraform and Ansible for repeatable, version-controlled deployments
• Skills implementing secure authentication and authorization with Keycloak (OAuth2/OpenID Connect), configuring AWS IAM roles, policies, and permissions, and integrating SSO with RBAC
• Talent for designing security posture using AWS GuardDuty, Shield, WAF, Security Hub; managing SSL/TLS (ACM, Let's Encrypt); and conducting vulnerability scans and security audits

What Sets You Apart:

• AWS Certification - AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional) credentials
• Scalability & Cost Optimization Ingenuity - Experience defining autoscaling strategies, CDN (CloudFront) patterns, and tuning resource usage to balance performance and spend
• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Vision - Ability to build and test RDS backup policies, S3 versioning/lifecycle rules, and cross-region replication to ensure business continuity
• Release & Lifecycle Management Orchestration - Leadership in platform upgrades and orchestrating staging, canary, and zero-downtime deployments across environments

We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, sex, pregnancy status, age, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment.

We comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, and all applicable state or local law.