Senior Hybrid Cloud & Virtual Infrastructure Architect

Seyfarth Shaw LLP; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Seyfarth Shaw LLP seeks an experienced Senior Infrastructure Engineer to plan, implement, and maintain the virtual and physical infrastructure for the firm. You will work with the Technical Architecture team across on‑premises and Azure environments, ensuring high availability and DR across multiple data centers and Azure regions.

The role requires extensive experience with Hypervisor platforms (VMware, Nutanix, Hyper-V), Azure services, and enterprise storage, with emphasis on migration,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 6 years' work with Hypervisor and Azure design and administration acting in a senior role.
• At least 6 years of expertise with hypervisor platforms, including VMware, Nutanix, and Microsoft Hyper‑V, covering deployment, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• At least 6 years’ of strong experience managing enterprise server platforms, including Cisco UCS and HPE environments.
• Minimum of 6 years' work with enterprise class SAN and cloud based storage and server management.
• Experience designing, operating, and supporting hybrid environments that integrate on‑premises infrastructure with Azure cloud services.
• Experience implementing and managing vSphere, vCenter, Site Recovery Manager
• Demonstrated ability to proactively identify opportunities for improvement, recommend solutions, and independently implement changes that enhance reliability, performance, or security
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities in a fast‑paced and team-based environment

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support on-premises, hybrid, and Azure infrastructure environments, including provisioning, patching, migration, monitoring, optimization, and decommissioning
• Assist the Team Lead, Virtual Infrastructure and Systems with the design, maintenance, and upgrade of enterprise storage solutions, including on-premises SAN, NAS and Azure storage services
• Design, implement, and support highly available and resilient solutions across multiple data centers and Azure regions to meet business continuity and disaster recovery requirements
• Specify, architect, and deliver infrastructure solutions—on-premises and Azure‑based—for projects within the Technical Services Group and across the firm
• Monitor server, storage, and Azure environments; maintain system documentation and inventory; analyze performance and capacity data to forecast needs and make recommendations
• Research, design, and implement infrastructure enhancements leveraging Azure services to support a secure, mobile workforce and agile development practices
• Provide operational support for server, storage, and Azure platforms, including reporting, change coordination, off‑hours maintenance, and participation in after‑hours support as required
• Actively share knowledge of the virtual infrastructure with other team members including the Senior Architect, Virtual systems and Infrastructure as well as the Operations team
• Ensure integrity of replication between data centers
• Provide regular reports for all environments
• Provide day to day support for all server and storage solutions and participation in after hour support as needed
• Perform required maintenance and upgrades during off hours as required
• Coordinate with Technical Architecture team on project based work
• Coordinate changes with the Technical Services Group following internal change management procedures

Skills

Azure design

Hypervisor platforms

Hyper-V

VMware

Nutanix

Cisco UCS

HPE server hardware

Azure AD / Entra ID

Disaster recovery planning

Azure storage services

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

VMware vSphere

vCenter

Site Recovery Manager

Nutanix AHV

Azure Storage Services

Job description

Seyfarth Shaw LLP seeks an experienced Senior Infrastructure Engineer to plan, implement, and maintain the virtual and physical infrastructure for the firm. You will work with the Technical Architecture team across on‑premises and Azure environments, ensuring high availability and DR across multiple data centers and Azure regions.

The role requires extensive experience with Hypervisor platforms (VMware, Nutanix, Hyper-V), Azure services, and enterprise storage, with emphasis on migration,