Senior Enterprise Architect - Secure 24/7 Operations

PingWind, Inc.; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 113,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Eleven Federal Holidays

Paid Time Off

Parental Leave

Health Insurance

Dental and Vision

401k

Job summary

PingWind, Inc. is seeking an Enterprise Architect to lead architecture for enterprise systems, virtualization, storage, backup/recovery, and continuity capabilities.

The role translates mission, security, interoperability, availability, and recovery requirements into scalable architectures and technical roadmaps to support secure 24/7 operations and resilient infrastructure. The position requires SECRET clearance and senior-level experience in mission-critical environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, systems engineering, engineering, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Senior-level enterprise architecture and systems engineering experience in mission‑critical IT environments requiring high availability and 24/7 operational support.
• Hands-on knowledge of enterprise backup/recovery platforms and interoperability with NFS/SMB, REST, S3‑compatible storage, and application‑aware agents.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise and system architecture recommendations spanning ESXi hosts, virtual machines/appliances, Red Hat OpenShift, VDI, Windows/Linux platforms, storage, applications, backup/recovery, and supporting infrastructure dependencies.
• Perform system analysis and design and provide architecture guidance for establishing and sustaining virtual infrastructure and highly available enterprise services.
• Architect scalable backup and recovery solutions compatible with Linux NFS, Windows SMB, the existing Enterprise SAN, Cohesity, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, VMware Replication, and vSAN environments.
• Define integration patterns for policy-driven protection and recovery services, including vProxy, DD Boost, NDMP, REST APIs, S3-compatible object storage, VMware vCenter/vSphere, and application-aware protection for platforms such as SQL Server.
• Establish architecture approaches that support Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), service-level expectations, enterprise growth, and long-term retention requirements.

Skills

VMware ESXi/vCenter/vSphere/vSAN

VDI

Windows Server

Linux/RHEL

OpenShift

Enterprise architecture

DoD security knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Cohesity

Dell PowerProtect Data Manager

Job description

PingWind, Inc. is seeking an Enterprise Architect to lead architecture for enterprise systems, virtualization, storage, backup/recovery, and continuity capabilities.

The role translates mission, security, interoperability, availability, and recovery requirements into scalable architectures and technical roadmaps to support secure 24/7 operations and resilient infrastructure. The position requires SECRET clearance and senior-level experience in mission-critical environments.