Senior Data Center Infrastructure Architect

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina; Jacksonville (FL); Hybrid; USD 108,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401k with employer match

PTO and paid time off

Parental leave and adoption/surrogacy

Job summary

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is seeking an Infrastructure Architect to design and deliver complex data center infrastructure across physical and cloud environments. You will plan, model capacity, establish standards, and collaborate with IT partners and vendors to ensure scalable, reliable services.

In a Hybrid-Flex environment, you will balance in-person collaboration with remote work, participate in lifecycle planning, incident response, and capacity initiatives, and guide

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
• 5+ years of experience in related field.
• In lieu of degree, 7+ years of experience in related field.

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

5+ years of experience in relatedfield

Customer service

Education

Bachelor's degree or advanced degree

Tools

Tomcat

Spring Boot

WebSphere Application Server

Perl

Python

CoPilot

Claude

Google Gemini

OpenAI

Korn Shell Scripting

Job description

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is seeking an Infrastructure Architect to design and deliver complex data center infrastructure across physical and cloud environments. You will plan, model capacity, establish standards, and collaborate with IT partners and vendors to ensure scalable, reliable services.

In a Hybrid-Flex environment, you will balance in-person collaboration with remote work, participate in lifecycle planning, incident response, and capacity initiatives, and guide