Senior Infrastructure Architect (Information Technology) - Project Hire

Universal Orlando Resort; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Universal Orlando Resort is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Architect to define enterprise patterns across on-prem and cloud, owning the end-to-end stack from bare metal to IaaS/PaaS. You will drive standardization, automation, and cost optimization while aligning with strategy across teams.

You will participate in the architecture review board, develop reference architectures, and enforce compliance to reference designs.

Qualifications

• 9+ years in technology delivery and implementation.
• 7+ years’ experience in global/large scale/enterprise solution and platform development.
• 7+ years’ hands on experience with Microsoft Azure or AWS implementations.
• Extensive experience in front-end and back-end integration design.
• Extensive experience in executive communication and collaboration.
• Experience with the software development lifecycle; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

• Hybrid Infrastructure Architecture & Standards – Set and enforce reference architectures, patterns and guardrails across on-prem datacenters and public cloud compute (compute, storage, network, virtualization/containers, SaaS).
• Platform Engineer, Performance & Automation – Drive Infrastructure-as-Code, configuration management and pipeline-drive delivery.
• Reliability, Observability & Continuity – Architect for availability, performance and scalability with clear SLOs, capacity planning and lifecycle management.
• Capacity Planning, Governance & Roadmaps – Participate in architecture review board, maintain infrastructure technology roadmaps to support annual planning and long-range planning.
• Understands and actively participates in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established policies.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

IaC

Security & Zero-Trust

Executive communication

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, systems engineering, information technology or similar

Tools

Azure

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

JOB SUMMARY

The Senior Infrastructure Architect is responsible for defining and governing enterprise infrastructure patterns across on-prem datacenters and public cloud. This role spans compute, storage, networking, virtualization/containers, IaaS/PaaS, and SaaS integrations, from bare metal through cloud-native, ensuring secure, resilient, and scalable designs. Partners with other teams to drive standardization and best practices around automation (IaC), zero-trust controls, monitoring/observability, backup/DR, and lifecycle/capacity planning; leads cost optimization and vendor/technology selection. The architect a part of the architecture review board and is responsible for reference architectures and roadmaps and enforce compliance to reference designs. The individual works with architecture and technology leadership to drive a global standardized infrastructure vision and roadmap. This leader must be able to inspire UDX culture.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Hybrid Infrastructure Architecture & Standards – Set and enforce reference architectures, patterns and guardrails across on-prem datacenters and public cloud compute (compute, storage, network, virtualization/containers, SaaS). Own the end-to-end stack, from bare metal and hypervisors to IaaS/PaaS and SaaS integrations.
• Platform Engineer, Performance & Automation – Drive Infrastructure-as-Code, configuration management and pipeline-drive delivery. Partner with NBC Operations & Technology teams, and UDX infrastructure and DevOps teams to align on patterns, reference architectures and remove manual drift. Standardize performance baselines, load testing and tuning.
• Reliability, Observability & Continuity – Architect for availability, performance and scalability with clear SLOs, capacity planning and lifecycle management. Specify logging, metrics and tracing standards. Ensure backup/restore and DR strategies are in place and ensure operational excellence with runbooks.
• Capacity Planning, Governance & Roadmaps – Participate in architecture review board, maintain infrastructure technology roadmaps to support annual planning and long-range planning. Help reservations/savings plans and hardware refresh with demand curves. Partner with other teams to ensure cost modeling/FinOps is performed on new designs. Evaluate vendors and standardize on approved services to control sprawl and total cost of ownership.
• Understands and actively participates in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established UO policy, procedures, training and team member involvement activities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, systems engineering, information technology or similar preferred.

EXPERIENCE

• 9+ years in technology delivery and implementation.
• 7+ years’ experience in global/large scale/enterprise solution and platform development.
• 7+ years’ hands on experience with Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS) implementations.
• Extensive experience in front-end and back-end integration design.
• Extensive Experience in executive communication and collaboration.
• Experience in stakeholder and partner communication.
• Experience with the software development lifecycle;
• or equivalent combination of education and experience.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws.
• Extensive experience designing and deployment of cloud and on-prem infrastructure
• Experience evaluating architecture designs and making recommendations for infrastructure implementation, deployment and provisioning.
• Repeated experience with UML artifacts.
• A technical background with an understanding of high-level networks, routers, switches, firewalls, BGP, and SANs.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code deployments.
• Experience with capacity planning across cloud and on-prem infrastructure
• Experience with an architecture review board (ARB).
• Demonstrated ability with Cloud FinOps and cost modeling.
• Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Consistent attendance is a job requirement.
• Preferred certifications with AWS and/or Microsoft Azure

Your talent, skills and experience will be rewarded with a competitive compensation package.

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