Senior IT Architect

Apex Systems; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Job summary

Everforth Apex is seeking a Senior IT Architect to lead architecture, engineering standards, and strategic direction for enterprise Windows Server and virtualization platforms, driving modernization and automation across VMware, Azure Local, Nutanix, and hybrid cloud.

The role focuses on defining enterprise standards, roadmaps, security, and operational excellence, with a strong emphasis on IaC and automation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, IT, engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in enterprise infrastructure engineering, 5+ in architecture/leadership.
• Experience designing compute platforms supporting many VMs.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise standards for Windows Server, virtualization, and compute platforms.
• Develop multi-year roadmaps for virtualization, HPC, and hybrid cloud.
• Design highly available, secure, scalable enterprise compute platforms.
• Architect virtualization using VMware vSphere, Azure Local, Nutanix AHV.
• Lead IaC initiatives and establish automation standards for provisioning and lifecycle.
• Create automated provisioning workflows for Windows servers, VMs, storage, and AD.
• Define standards for Terraform Enterprise, Ansible, PowerShell, Git, REST APIs, CI/CD.

Skills

Windows Server

VMware vSphere/ESXi

Azure Local / Stack HCI

Nutanix AHV

IaC automation

PowerShell

Ansible

REST APIs

Git workflows

Active Directory / Entra ID

Hybrid cloud

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Terraform Enterprise

Ansible Automation Platform

PowerShell

Git

Job description

Job Description

Senior IT Architect

Location: 700 UNIVERSE BLVD., Florida (Onsite)

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior IT Architect to lead the architecture, engineering standards, and strategic direction for the enterprise Windows Server and virtualization platforms. This role is responsible for defining enterprise standards, modernizing compute infrastructure, and driving an automation-first strategy across VMware, Microsoft Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI), Nutanix, and hybrid cloud environments. The ideal candidate will establish enterprise architecture standards and lead modernization initiatives that improve operational efficiency, resiliency, and security.

Key Responsibilities

• Define enterprise architecture standards for Windows Server, VMware, Azure Local, Nutanix, and enterprise compute platforms.
• Develop multi-year technology roadmaps for virtualization, Windows infrastructure, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), and hybrid cloud.
• Design highly available, secure, and scalable enterprise compute platforms supporting mission-critical workloads.
• Architect enterprise virtualization solutions using VMware vSphere, Azure Local, and Nutanix AHV.
• Develop reference architectures for Windows Server lifecycle management, virtualization, disaster recovery, and platform modernization.
• Lead Infrastructure as Code (IaC) initiatives and establish enterprise automation standards for compute provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Design automated provisioning workflows for Windows servers, virtual machines, storage, networking, and Active Directory integration.
• Establish engineering standards for Terraform Enterprise, Ansible Automation Platform, PowerShell, Git, REST APIs, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Define standards for Windows image management, security baselines, patching, and configuration management.
• Collaborate with networking, storage, Linux, cloud, identity, and security teams to deliver integrated enterprise infrastructure solutions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies including Azure Arc, Azure Local, Nutanix Cloud Platform, VMware Cloud Foundation, and containers.
• Lead platform modernization initiatives, migrations, technology refreshes, and architecture reviews.
• Develop enterprise standards, reference architectures, engineering documentation, and operational best practices.
• Mentor engineering teams and promote automation-first engineering practices across enterprise compute platforms.

Required Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Experience: 10+ years of enterprise infrastructure engineering experience, with 5+ years in an infrastructure architecture or technical leadership role. Experience designing enterprise compute platforms supporting hundreds or thousands of virtual machines.

Technical Skills

• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server.
• Expert knowledge of enterprise virtualization technologies including VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, VMware HA, DRS, vMotion, Azure Local (Azure Stack HCI), and Nutanix AHV.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing infrastructure automation solutions.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform Enterprise or equivalent platforms.
• Experience automating Windows infrastructure using PowerShell, Ansible Automation Platform, REST APIs, and Git-based workflows.
• Experience integrating enterprise identity services including Microsoft Active Directory and Entra ID.
• Experience with hybrid cloud architectures including Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

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