Remote Data Center Architect: Infra & Migration Lead

Winged IT; United States; Remote; USD 68,000 - 79,000; Part time

Job summary

Polish IT Company is seeking a Senior Data Center Infrastructure & Migration Architect to design a comprehensive data center solution and lead migrations for a client. The role focuses on rebuilding and expanding a server environment, including virtualization, storage, networking, backup and DR, with a potential long-term collaboration if the project proceeds.

The engagement is part-time and project-based, starting with discovery and architecture definition, with possible continuation into

Qualifications

• Experience designing data center, on-premise or private cloud infrastructure.
• Experience leading technical workshops with customers.
• Knowledge of virtualization, storage, networking and DR concepts.

Responsibilities

• Review technical documentation and identify gaps, risks and dependencies.
• Lead technical discovery workshops and prepare client recommendations.
• Design target data center infrastructure architecture.
• Define sizing and options with domain specialists.
• Design virtualization, compute, storage, networking, backup and DR solutions.
• Develop migration strategy for Windows and Linux environments.
• Coordinate pilots, testing, migration waves and cutover plans.
• Review designs and ensure alignment with overall architecture.
• Identify risks and propose mitigations.
• Contribute to proposals and solution presentations.
• Present architecture to client and provide oversight during implementation.

Skills

Infrastructure architecture

Stakeholder workshops

English communication

Architecture governance

Tools

VMware vSphere

ESXi

vCenter

Proxmox VE

Ceph

VMware-to-Proxmox migrations

NSX

SRM

VCF

Veeam / Commvault

Job description

Polish IT Company is seeking a Senior Data Center Infrastructure & Migration Architect to design a comprehensive data center solution and lead migrations for a client. The role focuses on rebuilding and expanding a server environment, including virtualization, storage, networking, backup and DR, with a potential long-term collaboration if the project proceeds.

The engagement is part-time and project-based, starting with discovery and architecture definition, with possible continuation into