IT Infrastructure Solution Architect

Lonza; Hyderabad; Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office-first role with 40% remote

Exposure to global infrastructure and技

Job summary

Lonza is seeking an experienced IT Infrastructure Solution Architect to design and standardize enterprise hosting solutions across a global, regulated environment. You will translate business requirements into secure, scalable infrastructure and collaborate with global stakeholders.

This office-first role allows 40% remote work. You will lead end-to-end design and governance, drive modernization, ensure GMP, cybersecurity, and compliance, and work with Infrastructure, Security, Operations, and

Qualifications

• Enterprise hosting architecture experience (VMware / Nutanix / HCI).
• Windows and Linux hosting experience.
• Enterprise storage expertise.
• Infrastructure resilience / DR.
• Experience maintaining operations of mission-critical systems.
• Security by design principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design and delivery of global infrastructure projects, ensuring alignment with timelines, budgets and regulatory requirements.
• Provide architecture governance and lifecycle oversight across platforms.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Security, Operations, Engineering and application teams to ensure successful delivery.
• Drive platform modernization, technology refreshes, and infrastructure upgrades.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of enterprise solutions.
• Support lifecycle management and regulatory readiness through governance and audits.

Skills

VMware

Nutanix

Windows hosting

Linux hosting

Enterprise storage

Disaster recovery

Security by design

Operations on mission-critical systems

Infrastructure resilience

Tools

Ansible

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Azure

Job description

IT Infrastructure Solution Architect

Location: Hyderabad, India

We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect - to design and standardize enterprise hosting solutions across a global, multi-site and regulated environment. The role requires strong experience with VMware, Windows/Linux, Nutanix/HCI . Experience with Ansible, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Infrastructure as Code and Azure is considered a plus.

The successful candidate should be able to translate business requirements into secure, resilient, scalable and supportable technical solutions while working effectively with global technical and business stakeholders.

As a trusted partner to business stakeholders, Quality, Security, and Global IT teams, you will drive technology innovation, operational excellence, and lifecycle management while ensuring adherence to GMP, regulatory, cybersecurity, and enterprise architecture standards.

This is an office-first role. Working together in person supports close, real-time collaboration and team alignment, enabling us to deliver our best work. You will work primarily in the office, with the flexibility to work remotely for 40% of your time (two days per week).

What you will get

• An agile career and dynamic working culture.
• An inclusive and ethical workplace.
• Compensation programs that recognize high performance.
• Opportunities to influence Lonza's global infrastructure and technology strategy.
• Exposure to enterprise architecture, digital transformation, laboratory systems, cloud technologies, cybersecurity, and regulated manufacturing environments.
• Professional growth through strategic initiatives, innovation programs, and leadership opportunities.
• Collaboration with global infrastructure, quality, cybersecurity, application, and business teams.
• The opportunity to shape future technology investments and modernization programs across Lonza.
• A variety of benefits dependent on role and location.

The full list of our global benefits can be found here: https://www.lonza.com/careers/benefits.

What you will do

Strategic Architecture & Solution Design

• Design and maintain enterprise hosting architectures and standards across global infrastructure environments.
• Translate business and technical requirements into secure, resilient, scalable, and supportable infrastructure solutions.
• Evaluate technologies and vendors, providing clear architecture recommendations and technical direction.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Security, Operations, Engineering, application teams, and external partners to ensure successful solution delivery.
• Provide architecture governance and lifecycle oversight, ensuring solutions remain aligned with global standards, support models, and technology roadmaps.

Must have criteria's :

• - Enterprise hosting architecture experience (VMWare / Nutanix / HCI Platforms)
• - Windows and Linux hosting
• - Enterprise Storage
• - Infrastructure resilience / DR
• - Experience maintaining and taking care of operations of mission critical systems.
• - Security by design

Optional knowledge:

• - Automation Skills (Ansible is a plus)
• - Container orchestrators (K8s based)
• - Cloud platforms knowledge (Azure)
• - Experience in infrastructure operations.

Delivery & Lifecycle Ownership

• Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of global and regional infrastructure projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives, timelines, budgets, and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure solutions are designed, implemented, validated, operated, and retired according to established lifecycle management practices.
• Drive platform modernization, technology refreshes, infrastructure upgrades, and strategic transformation initiatives.
• Support project teams throughout the solution lifecycle by providing architectural guidance and design oversight.

Operational Excellence & Stability

• Act as the technical escalation owner for major incidents, complex problem investigations, and cross-platform service disruptions.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of enterprise solution systems and infrastructure platforms.
• Lead root cause analysis activities and implement continuous improvement initiatives to enhance platform stability and reduce operational risk.
• Establish and monitor operational standards, service quality metrics, and infrastructure best practices.

Disaster Recovery, Security & Compliance

• Ensure infrastructure solutions meet business continuity, disaster recovery, resilience, and recovery objectives through robust architecture and regular testing.
• Drive compliance with GMP, GxP, data integrity, cybersecurity, and Lonza internal governance standards.
• Collaborate closely with IT Security, Quality Assurance, Validation, Risk, and Audit teams to ensure regulatory readiness and successful audit outcomes.
• Support the implementation of security-by-design principles across infrastructure and enterprise solution landscapes.

Vendor & Stakeholder Management

Manage strategic relationships with technology vendors, managed service pr