Principal Infrastructure Architect - Enterprise Platforms

AEP Service Corporation; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 116,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

American Electric Power in Austin, TX is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect to translate business and technical requirements into scalable designs across servers, storage, identity, and automation. You will drive architecture standards, roadmaps, and governance while partnering with engineering and operations to deliver secure, reliable infrastructure solutions.

You will mentor engineers, evaluate emerging technologies, and ensure solutions align with enterprise objectives and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field is required.
• 8 years of relevant work experience is required.
• An equivalent combination of education and related experience may be considered.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver infrastructure solutions that address complex requirements with scalability, resiliency, security, and operational supportability.
• Partner with engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to identify challenges and requirements.
• Collaborate on infrastructure standards, reference architectures, design patterns, roadmaps, and best practices.
• Lead architecture across infrastructure domains including Windows and Linux, storage, databases, identity services, automation, and enterprise platforms.
• Produce architectural deliverables, technical designs, roadmaps, and governance artifacts with minimal supervision.
• Serve as trusted advisor for infrastructure strategy, platform modernization, and operational excellence initiatives.
• Mentor and provide architectural guidance to engineers to strengthen capabilities and promote consistent design practices.
• Work with project teams to ensure delivery aligns with enterprise architecture objectives.
• Assess health and future-state direction of platforms and services, developing strategic roadmaps to improve reliability and efficiency.
• Drive automation and standardization to reduce operational complexity and increase service quality.

Skills

Infrastructure architecture

Automation

Technical leadership

Stakeholder collaboration

Windows & Linux

Active Directory / LDAP

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Active Directory

LDAP

Windows Server

Linux

Job description

American Electric Power in Austin, TX is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect to translate business and technical requirements into scalable designs across servers, storage, identity, and automation. You will drive architecture standards, roadmaps, and governance while partnering with engineering and operations to deliver secure, reliable infrastructure solutions.

You will mentor engineers, evaluate emerging technologies, and ensure solutions align with enterprise objectives and