Infrastructure Architect

Piper Companies; St. Louis (MO); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect to lead design, deployment, and sustainment of complex PLM environments for U.S. government and defense customers, with 50% travel to St. Louis, MO.

You will own Teamcenter deployments, TEM, Deployment Center, and infrastructure across Linux/Windows, virtualization, and cloud, ensuring high availability and secure operations. This role requires hands-on leadership, engineering excellence, and the ability to collaborate

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field with 5+ years of PLM/IT infrastructure experience.
• Hands-on Teamcenter deployment, administration, configuration, and production support experience.
• Experience with TEM and Deployment Center.
• Strong enterprise infrastructure experience across Linux/Windows, networking, virtualization, and cloud environments.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% (2 weeks onsite in St. Louis, MO).
• Active security clearance or eligibility to obtain government security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, administer, and sustain Teamcenter solutions across complex enterprise environments.
• Build PLM infrastructure across servers, networks, databases, application tiers, virtualization, identity/access, and cloud technologies.
• Stand up, maintain, and upgrade test and production environments, ensuring security, availability, stability, and performance.
• Provide technical support for Teamcenter, NX, Opcenter, Capital, and related applications, owning issues from intake through resolution.
• Troubleshoot application and infrastructure issues through ticket triage, log analysis, root-cause identification, and technical escalation.
• Collaborate with end users, SMEs, administrators, and infrastructure teams to resolve production issues and support enterprise deployments.
• Maintain technical documentation and communicate issue status and resolutions across stakeholders.

Skills

Security clearance

Communication

Troubleshooting

Scripting

IaC

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Teamcenter

TEM

Deployment Center

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Linux

Windows Server

VMware

AWS

Azure

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect to support a leading technology and engineering organization delivering advanced digital transformation, software, and industrial solutions to U.S. government and defense customers. This position requires 50% travel in the form of 2 weeks onsite in St. Louis, MO, followed by 2 weeks offsite/remote.

As an Infrastructure Architect, you will serve as a technical leader responsible for designing, deploying, and sustaining complex enterprise PLM environments supporting advanced digital engineering initiatives. You will work hands-on across PLM applications and the underlying IT infrastructure, ensuring secure, stable, and highly available environments while troubleshooting critical issues and supporting ongoing modernization efforts.

Responsibilities of the Infrastructure Architect:

• Deploy, configure, administer, and sustain Teamcenter solutions across complex enterprise environments.
• Build and maintain PLM infrastructure across servers, networks, databases, application tiers, virtualization, identity/access, and cloud technologies.
• Stand up, maintain, and upgrade test and production environments, ensuring security, availability, stability, and performance.
• Provide technical support for Teamcenter, NX, Opcenter, Capital, and related applications, owning issues from intake through resolution.
• Troubleshoot application and infrastructure issues through ticket triage, log analysis, root-cause identification, and technical escalation.
• Collaborate with end users, SMEs, administrators, and infrastructure teams to resolve production issues and support enterprise deployments.
• Maintain technical documentation and communicate issue status and resolutions across stakeholders.

Qualifications for the Infrastructure Architect:

• Bachelors degree along with 5+ years of enterprise PLM and/or IT infrastructure experience.
• 3+ years deploying and maintaining Teamcenter products, or 5+ years with comparable enterprise PLM platforms.
• Hands-on Teamcenter deployment, administration, configuration, and production support experience.
• Strong knowledge of Teamcenter Environment Manager (TEM) and Deployment Center.
• Strong enterprise infrastructure experience across Linux/Windows Server, networking, virtualization, web/proxy servers, and cloud environments.
• Experience with identity/access technologies, enterprise application platforms, databases, and automation/scripting.
• Experience building, maintaining, and upgrading enterprise PLM, ERP, and/or MES test and production environments.
• Ability to independently deploy, troubleshoot, and sustain complex, highly available PLM environments.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 50% in the form of working onsite in St. Louis, MO - 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off*
• Active security clearance OR eligibility to obtain government security clearance*
• Preferred:
  • Knowledge of DoD Cloud Computing SRG and Risk Management Framework (RMF).
  • Experience supporting Authority to Operate (ATO) initiatives and compliance documentation.
  • Infrastructure-as-Code experience with Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation.

Compensation for the Infrastructure Architect:

• Salary Range: $150,000 - $180,000 *depending on experience*
• Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k Plan, PTO, Holidays, Sick Leave if required by law

This job opens for applications on 09/01. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date.

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