Summary

The Infrastructure Architect is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining an organization's IT infrastructure, ensuring it is scalable, secure, and efficient to support business operations and future growth.

Key Responsibilities

1. Designing and Implementing Infrastructure Solutions: Plan and implement robust and scalable infrastructure solutions that meet business requirements and align with industry best practices.
2. Ensuring Infrastructure Security and Compliance: Implement security measures, policies, and procedures to safeguard the infrastructure and data from unauthorized access, breaches, and cyberattacks.
3. Collaborating with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with development, operations, and other teams to ensure smooth integration and alignment of infrastructure with overall IT strategy.
4. Staying Abreast of Technological Advancements: Keep up-to-date with emerging technologies and trends in infrastructure architecture to identify opportunities for improvement and innovation.
5. Optimizing Infrastructure Performance: Monitor and analyze infrastructure performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement optimizations to enhance efficiency and scalability.
6. Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of infrastructure designs, configurations, and processes.
7. Cost optimization: Reduce the overall cost of cloud services while maintaining or enhancing performance.

Technical Requirements

1. Extensive experience in IT infrastructure design and implementation.
2. Extensive experience in cloud-native architectures (Azure, AWS, GCP), with proficiency in AWS. Strong experience with multi-cloud environment deployments preferred.
3. Proven experience in designing data-intensive, large-scale, high-performance trading data platforms.
4. Proven ability to design and implement scalable and secure Kubernetes-based infrastructure solutions, including container orchestration, cluster management, and deployment optimization.
5. Experience with financial services data workflows, including trading, middle office, and back office operations.
6. Proficient in GitOps tools and methodologies for infrastructure automation and deployment.
7. Strong background in DevSecFinOps, ensuring compliance, security, and cost efficiency across the development lifecycle.
8. Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), and monitoring tools.
9. Extensive experience in disaster recovery planning and backup system management.

Education & Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
2. Preferred certifications (optional):
3. AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional
4. Terraform Associate or Professional

Leadership & Collaboration

1. Passion for building scalable, reliable, and secure systems in a fast-paced environment.
2. Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable insights for technical teams.
3. Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.

Skills

• AWS
• Communications Skills
• Development
• Software Architecture
• Software Engineering
• Team Collaboration