Senior Data Center & Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina; Kansas City (MO); Hybrid; USD 108,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401k match with company contribution

Paid time off (PTO)

Tuition reimbursement

Parental leave

Job summary

Blue Cross NC is seeking an experienced Data Center Infrastructure Engineer to design and deliver complex data center and cloud infrastructure solutions, spanning network, compute, storage, platform, middleware, and database components. You will collaborate with IT partners and vendors to ensure scalable, resilient designs that meet SLAs.

The role emphasizes ongoing architecture governance, capacity planning, licensing input, and engineering guidelines to streamline delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree in a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in data center infrastructure design and operations.
• In lieu of degree, 7+ years of related experience.

Responsibilities

• Independently plan, architect, and deliver complex infrastructure designs supporting network, compute, telephony, platform, middleware, and database solutions.
• Own technology currency, lifecycle management, and capacity planning to ensure infrastructure capabilities consistently meet established SLAs.
• Define and maintain hardware and software performance standards to ensure scalability, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Serve as an infrastructure subject matter expert, providing deep technical guidance on emerging technologies and partnering strategically with key technology vendors.
• Lead and contribute to software and hardware licensing, financial planning, and capacity initiatives to ensure efficient adoption and operation of datacenter technologies.
• Proactively consult with IT partners, business stakeholders, and vendors impacted by network and data center infrastructure decisions.
• Execute detailed infrastructure designs for large-scale and complex initiatives in collaboration with IT stakeholders, service owners, and delivery partners.
• Ensure operational readiness through engineering, planning, coordination, and execution of performance tuning, system support, incident and problem resolution, installations, and upgrades.
• Provide expert-level guidance and hands-on consultation during complex production incidents to support rapid resolution and system stability.
• Develop and maintain standardized engineering guidelines, procedures, and schedules to streamline solution delivery and improve datacenter operational efficiency.
• Build strong partnerships across the enterprise architecture community to maintain technical roadmaps and contribute to infrastructure strategies and standards.
• Collaborate closely with vendors to ensure delivered infrastructure solutions align with architectural intent and design specifications.
• Present new and emerging technology overviews to IT and enterprise leadership across a variety of leadership forums.
• Mentor and support less experienced engineers by providing technical direction, design guidance, and knowledge sharing as needed.

Skills

Data Center Design

Data Center Infrastructure Design

Data Center Networks

Data Center Operations

Data Infrastructure

IT Services

IT Architecture

ITIL

ITSM

Network Infrastructures

Education

Bachelor's degree or advanced degree

Job description

Blue Cross NC is seeking an experienced Data Center Infrastructure Engineer to design and deliver complex data center and cloud infrastructure solutions, spanning network, compute, storage, platform, middleware, and database components. You will collaborate with IT partners and vendors to ensure scalable, resilient designs that meet SLAs.

The role emphasizes ongoing architecture governance, capacity planning, licensing input, and engineering guidelines to streamline delivery.