Architect, Network PRIMARY SKILLS * Struts, Ansible, Azure ARM, Azure Repo, Terraform, Azure Poweshell, Azure AD JOB REQUIREMENTS * Required Mandatory Experience • 10+ years of professional experience in infrastructure architecture, infrastructure engineering, cloud architecture, platform architecture, or enterprise technology consulting. • 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure services and hybrid cloud environments. • Strong experience assessing enterprise application environments hosted across on-premises data centers and public cloud platforms. • Deep understanding of compute, virtualization, operating systems, storage, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, observability, and operational infrastructure domains. • Experience assessing enterprise infrastructure environments supporting business-critical applications. • Working knowledge of OpenShift, Kubernetes, Kafka, Oracle, and related enterprise platform technologies. • Strong understanding of hybrid infrastructure architectures and cloud adoption patterns. • Experience conducting infrastructure assessments, current-state reviews, gap analysis, maturity assessments, and roadmap development. • Ability to work with architects, engineers, SMEs, operations teams, and executive stakeholders. • Strong presentation, documentation, analytical, and stakeholder communication skills. • Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-paced, and high-visibility client environments. Required Industry Experience • Minimum of 10+ years of experience designing, implementing, assessing, or operating enterprise infrastructure solutions. • Experience supporting business-critical applications within highly available and regulated environments. • Experience supporting cloud transformation, infrastructure modernization, migration, managed services, or enterprise architecture initiatives. • Experience conducting end-to-end assessments across infrastructure, cloud, platform, security, operations, and governance domains. • Demonstrated ability to identify infrastructure risks, resiliency gaps, operational challenges, modernization opportunities, and technology debt. • Experience working with senior executives, client sponsors, architecture teams, infrastructure teams, security teams, and delivery organizations. • Ability to communicate effectively with both executive stakeholders and deep technical teams. Required Technical Experience • Strong understanding of AWS infrastructure services including EC2, Auto Scaling, EBS, EFS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Systems Manager, Backup, and related services. • Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure technologies including VMware, virtualization platforms, Linux, Windows Server, storage systems, backup solutions, and disaster recovery platforms. • Experience assessing OpenShift and Kubernetes infrastructure architectures, including cluster design, node architecture, storage integration, scaling, resiliency, and operational management. • Experience evaluating Kafka infrastructure architectures including broker deployments, replication, performance, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery. • Experience assessing Oracle infrastructure environments, including storage, backup, replication, Data Guard, performance dependencies, and disaster recovery. • Experience reviewing infrastructure monitoring, observability, alerting, logging, and operational support models. • Knowledge of infrastructure security best practices including hardening, patching, access management, encryption, vulnerability management, and compliance controls. • Experience evaluating high availability, disaster recovery, backup strategies, operational resilience, and recovery testing. • Ability to assess infrastructure performance, scalability, capacity planning, utilization trends, and operational readiness. • Familiarity with infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar platforms. • Ability to review architecture diagrams, infrastructure inventories, configuration artifacts, operational dashboa