Infrastructure Architect

Jobtailor; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior Infrastructure Architect to lead the development, validation, and maintenance of the Infrastructure Architecture Design Document (IADD) for critical state and local government environments. You will ensure designs across hosting, networks, databases, middleware, and integrations align with Commonwealth and PennDOT standards while guiding architectural guardrails.

In this role you will coordinate reviews, risk assessments, and security/compliance activities, identify

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience in enterprise infrastructure or solution architecture roles.
• Experience supporting complex, multi-application environments in public-sector or regulated settings.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure platforms, application architectures, and IT service delivery models.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional technical and operational teams.
• Citizenship and proximity requirements: U.S. citizenship; located within one hour of Harrisburg, PA.

Responsibilities

• Lead development, validation, and maintenance of the Infrastructure Architecture Design Document (IADD).
• Align infrastructure designs with Commonwealth and PennDOT standards across hosting, network, database, middleware, and integration layers.
• Establish architectural guardrails and validate scalability, resiliency, maintainability, and operational supportability.
• Coordinate architecture reviews, risk assessments, remediation planning, and security/compliance activities.
• Identify architectural risks and define mitigation strategies.
• Validate dependencies across applications, shared services, integrations, environments, and infrastructure layers.
• Ensure platform services are sized, configured, and documented for AMS operations.
• Provide recommendations for managing architectural complexity and technical debt.
• Oversee transition-related changes, environment onboarding, and configuration updates.
• Validate technical impacts, readiness, and rollback strategies.
• Support ITSM-aligned change and release execution.
• Support transition readiness assessments involving environments, tooling, access, monitoring, and documentation.
• Confirm IADD artifacts, configuration baselines, and architecture diagrams reflect the operational environment.
• Provide technical readiness input for formal transition acceptance.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Stakeholder collaboration

Cloud platforms

IT service delivery

Risk assessment

Change management

Education

TOGAF Certification

Cloud Platform Certification

ITIL Foundation Certification

Tools

AWS

Azure

ITSM tools

Job description

• Lead development, validation, and maintenance of the Infrastructure Architecture Design Document (IADD)
• Ensure infrastructure, hosting, network, database, middleware, and integration designs align with Commonwealth and PennDOT standards
• Establish architectural guardrails and validate scalability, resiliency, maintainability, and operational supportability
• Coordinate architecture reviews, risk assessments, remediation planning, and security/compliance activities
• Identify architectural risks and define mitigation strategies
• Validate dependencies across applications, shared services, integrations, environments, and infrastructure layers
• Ensure platform services are sized, configured, and documented for steady-state AMS operations
• Provide recommendations for managing architectural complexity and technical debt
• Oversee transition-related changes, environment onboarding, and configuration updates
• Validate technical impacts, readiness, and rollback strategies
• Support ITSM-aligned change and release execution
• Support transition readiness assessments involving environments, tooling, access, monitoring, and documentation
• Confirm IADD artifacts, configuration baselines, and architecture diagrams accurately reflect the operational environment
• Provide technical readiness input for formal transition acceptance

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of experience in enterprise infrastructure or solution architecture roles
• Experience supporting complex, multi-application environments in public-sector or regulated settings
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure platforms, application architectures, and IT service delivery models
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional technical and operational teams
• U.S. citizenship required; proof of citizenship must be provided prior to employment
• Must be located within one hour of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification (optional)
• Cloud platform certification such as AWS or Azure (optional)
• ITIL Foundation certification (optional)

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive experience in enterprise infrastructure and solution architecture, with a focus on aligning designs with standards and managing architectural complexity. Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and support IT service delivery in regulated environments.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture
• Infrastructure Design Alignment
• Risk Assessment and Mitigation
• Cloud Platform Certification
• ITIL Foundation Certification

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Infrastructure Architecture
• Application Architecture
• IT Service Delivery Models
• Scalability Validation
• Operational Supportability
• Configuration Management
• Technical Readiness Assessment
• Architecture Documentation
• Change Management
• Remediation Planning

Soft Skills

• Collaboration
• Cross-Functional Teamwork

Certifications & Qualifications

• TOGAF Certification
• Cloud Platform Certification
• ITIL Foundation Certification

Industry Keywords

• Public Sector
• Regulated Settings
• Architecture Guardrails
• Technical Debt Management
• Transition Readiness

Tools & Technologies

• AWS
• Azure
• ITSM Tools