Senior Platform Infra Architect - Remote OT Compute

Akkodis; San Antonio (TX); Remote; USD 96,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

2 weeks paid vacation

401K plan

Paid holidays

Job summary

Akkodis is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Architect for Platform Engineering on a contract basis with a remote option. The role focuses on design, implementation, and lifecycle management of enterprise compute platforms supporting OT environments across data centers and remote sites.

The candidate will lead standardization, hardware lifecycle planning, and upgrades while hands‑on implementing solutions, troubleshooting issues, and collaborating across Windows, Networking, Cybersecurity, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of infrastructure engineering and architecture experience.
• Strong hands-on experience supporting enterprise compute and virtualization platforms.
• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting production infrastructure environments.
• Strong understanding of enterprise server hardware architecture and lifecycle management.
• Experience planning and executing infrastructure upgrades, refreshes, and modernization initiatives.
• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues in production environments.
• Experience developing operational procedures, standards, and technical documentation.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to independently design, implement, support, and improve infrastructure solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, administer, and support enterprise compute infrastructure platforms supporting OT workloads.
• Deploy and maintain physical server infrastructure across data center and remote site environments.
• Implement and support virtualization platforms and associated management systems.
• Perform platform upgrades, migrations, lifecycle activities, and remediation efforts.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and perform root cause analysis.
• Support highly available and mission‑critical OT infrastructure environments.
• Lifecycle Management & Standardization
• Support lifecycle planning activities for compute hardware and virtualization platforms.
• Develop and maintain standard hardware configurations and approved platform offerings.
• Identify lifecycle risks associated with aging infrastructure and unsupported technologies.
• Support hardware refresh initiatives and platform modernization efforts.
• Improve inventory accuracy, supportability tracking, and lifecycle visibility across the compute portfolio.
• Contribute to lifecycle governance processes and operational reporting.
• Platform Operations & Continuous Improvement
• Develop and maintain engineering standards, operational procedures, and support documentation.
• Improve monitoring, automation, reporting, and operational visibility.
• Drive standardization and operational maturity across compute platforms.
• Identify opportunities to improve reliability, supportability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Participate in disaster recovery planning, testing, and operational readiness activities.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across the OT Compute portfolio.
• Technical Leadership
• Provide technical recommendations regarding compute platforms, hardware standards, lifecycle activities, and operational improvements.
• Collaborate with Windows Services, Networking, Cybersecurity, Architecture, and Operations teams.
• Mentor team members and contribute to engineering best practices.
• Participate in technical evaluations and solution design activities.
• Assist in developing standards and implementation approaches for new platform capabilities.

Skills

Infrastructure design

Compute & virtualization

Lifecycle mgmt

Hardware standards

Platform upgrades

Root cause analysis

Documentation standards

Collaboration

Tools

VMware

PowerShell

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Puppet

Kubernetes

ServiceNow

Job description

Akkodis is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Architect for Platform Engineering on a contract basis with a remote option. The role focuses on design, implementation, and lifecycle management of enterprise compute platforms supporting OT environments across data centers and remote sites.

The candidate will lead standardization, hardware lifecycle planning, and upgrades while hands‑on implementing solutions, troubleshooting issues, and collaborating across Windows, Networking, Cybersecurity, and