Windows System Engineer

Reqroute, Inc; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Reqroute, Inc. is seeking an experienced VMware/Windows Infrastructure Solution Architect to design and manage enterprise on-premises and cloud infrastructure solutions.

You will lead end-to-end infrastructure architecture across servers, storage, virtualization, networking, and cloud platforms, ensuring alignment with business strategies and enterprise standards. The role requires 13+ years of experience in infrastructure solution design, strong leadership, and the ability to collaborate with

Qualifications

• Knowledge of the financial services industry and enterprise IT environments.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure technologies, including networking, computing platforms, Windows servers, VMware, storage, databases, security, middleware, and systems management.
• Experience designing and architecting private cloud, virtualization, and on-premises infrastructure solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead infrastructure analysis and solution design for application onboarding, greenfield implementations, and migration initiatives.
• Drive infrastructure sizing, capacity planning, and technology assessments based on application and business requirements.
• Partner with engineering and operations teams to evaluate feasibility, complexity, scope, and technical requirements of new capabilities and solutions.
• Collaborate with architecture and infrastructure delivery teams to ensure consistent solution design, integration, and implementation.
• Define technology roadmaps and infrastructure strategies aligned with business application roadmaps.
• Ensure delivered solutions meet business objectives, service-level requirements, IT strategies, and architectural design standards.
• Provide technical leadership and ownership across infrastructure solution delivery.
• Develop and maintain architecture principles, standards, technical position papers, blueprints, best practices, design patterns, and frameworks.
• Communicate infrastructure architecture, design decisions, and technical recommendations to both business and technical stakeholders.
• Evaluate architectural alternatives and recommend appropriate solutions based on scalability, performance, availability, cost, and operational requirements.

Skills

Infrastructure Architecture

VMware

Windows Server

Capacity Planning

DR/BCP Planning

Job description

Windows Infrastructure Solution Architect

Location: Remote

Experience Required: 13+ Years

Background Verification: Must be successfully cleared before starting

Mandatory Skills

• Infrastructure Solution Architecture and End-to-End Solution Design
• Private Cloud and Virtualization – Windows, VMware, and On-Premises Infrastructure
• Infrastructure Sizing, Capacity Planning, High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), Storage, and Backup Design
• Business Requirements Analysis, HLD/LLD Development, and Infrastructure Bill of Materials (BOM)
• Architecture Governance, Technical Design Trade-offs, and Cross-Functional Stakeholder Management

Job Description / Responsibilities

We are seeking an experienced VMware / Windows Infrastructure Solution Architect to join the CIO IT Solution Design Group. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, architecting, and managing enterprise-level on-premises and cloud infrastructure solutions.

The role involves developing end-to-end infrastructure architecture across servers, storage, virtualization, networking, and cloud platforms while ensuring alignment with business requirements, IT strategies, and enterprise architecture standards.

The architect will work closely with application architects, infrastructure architects, database architects, cloud engineering, and operations teams to deliver scalable, secure, reliable, and high-performing infrastructure solutions.

General Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead infrastructure analysis and solution design for application onboarding, greenfield implementations, and migration initiatives.
• Drive infrastructure sizing, capacity planning, and technology assessments based on application and business requirements.
• Partner with engineering and operations teams to evaluate the feasibility, complexity, scope, and technical requirements of new capabilities and solutions.
• Collaborate with architecture and infrastructure delivery teams to ensure consistent solution design, integration, and implementation.
• Define technology roadmaps and infrastructure strategies aligned with business application roadmaps.
• Ensure delivered solutions meet business objectives, service-level requirements, IT strategies, and architectural design standards.
• Provide technical leadership and ownership across infrastructure solution delivery.
• Develop and maintain architecture principles, standards, technical position papers, blueprints, best practices, design patterns, and frameworks.
• Communicate infrastructure architecture, design decisions, and technical recommendations to both business and technical stakeholders.
• Evaluate architectural alternatives and recommend appropriate solutions based on scalability, performance, availability, cost, and operational requirements.

General Knowledge & Skills

• Knowledge of the financial services industry and enterprise IT environments.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure technologies, including networking, computing platforms, Windows servers, VMware, storage, databases, security, middleware, and systems management.
• Experience designing and architecting private cloud, virtualization, and on-premises infrastructure solutions.
• Knowledge of infrastructure sizing, capacity planning, high availability, disaster recovery, storage, and backup strategies.
• Proficiency in solution design and requirements definition methodologies.
• Experience with conceptual solution models, business process models, use cases, and architecture documentation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to executive, management, and technical audiences.
• Strong stakeholder management, leadership, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• Ability to evaluate technical alternatives and drive consensus on the most effective architectural approach.