Overview

The Principal Infrastructure Architect provides strategic and technical leadership to the company’s Hosting, Infrastructure, and Operations teams, driving modernization, scalability, and performance across IT systems. This role oversees infrastructure advancement, technical debt reduction, and service level improvements, leveraging expertise in mainframe, midrange, middleware, Wintel, Unix, networking, storage, virtualization, security, disaster recovery, and automation to build a secure, resilient, and cost-effective technology ecosystem.

Working closely with Enterprise Architecture and cross-functional teams, the Architect guides hybrid cloud adoption, ITSM maturity, and infrastructure optimization aligned with long-term strategy. Responsibilities include evaluating emerging technologies, shaping migration strategies, supporting vendor relationships, and ensuring solutions meet performance, security, and compliance standards. Through strong collaboration and technical vision, the Architect ensures infrastructure evolves to meet current needs and future business goals.

Responsibilities

• Leads infrastructure modernization initiatives, reducing reliance on legacy systems while advancing hybrid cloud, virtualization, automation, and IT Service Management maturity
• Designs and implements robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure solutions that support modernization and long-term business strategy
• Evaluates system requirements and existing infrastructure to ensure performance, security, and compliance meet organizational and client expectations
• Develops and maintains infrastructure architecture blueprints and migration strategies, guiding seamless transitions from legacy to modern platforms
• Leverages emerging technologies, including AI and advanced automation, accelerate transformation, drive efficiency, and enable business innovation
• Analyzes and proposes alternative solutions and improvements, introducing new capabilities that enhance performance, resiliency, and cost optimization
• Leads the design, review, and integration of new systems, documents proposed changes and ensures seamless deployment across core infrastructure
• Ensures compliance with enterprise security policies and regulatory requirements, embedding disaster recovery and business continuity into all designs
• Conducts infrastructure performance monitoring and optimization, assesses post-implementation success and captures best practices for continuous improvement

Qualifications

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Advanced technical expertise across enterprise infrastructure domains, including mainframe (IBM Z/OS), midrange, Wintel, Unix, storage technologies, networking, and data center hosting
• Architecture definition and design skills through models, patterns and roadmaps and an understanding of Enterprise Architecture practices
• Strong knowledge of enterprise security principles and practices, with experience embedding security, compliance, disaster recovery, and business continuity into infrastructure solutions
• Deep understanding of ITIL frameworks and ITSM practices, with the ability to design and mature operational processes
• Strong knowledge of virtualization technologies (e.g., VMware, Hyper-V) for creating flexible, resilient, and efficient infrastructure environments
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) to drive automation and consistency across deployments
• Broad data and infrastructure integration knowledge, enabling seamless connectivity between legacy platforms, modern cloud services, and emerging technologies
• Excellent analytical, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with IT leaders, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams

Experience:

• 10 years of progressive experience in enterprise infrastructure architecture, engineering, or related IT leadership roles
• 5 years of hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including design and deployment of hybrid and multi-cloud solutions
• Experience leading infrastructure modernization initiatives, including legacy-to-modern transitions, hybrid cloud adoption, automation, and ITSM maturity
• Extensive hands-on expertise across infrastructure domains such as mainframe (IBM Z/OS), midrange, Wintel, Unix, networking, storage, security, and data center hosting
• Strong background in virtualization, containerization, and infrastructure automation using tools like VMware, Hyper-V, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate and operationalize emerging technologies (e.g., AI/ML, AIOps) and ensure compliance with regulatory standards in highly regulated industries
• Proven success in leading large-scale infrastructure projects, collaborating with enterprise architecture and business stakeholders, and managing vendor relationships and contracts

Working Conditions:

• Remote/Home Office
• Must be able to use equipment at workstation, in an indoor environment, for up to 8 hours daily
• Travel: Occasional overnight travel (up to 20%) by land and/or air for meetings to the office or other areas 
• May be required to work a flexible work schedule, including weekend and evening availability during outages, security incidents, deployment and maintenance-window-oriented events

Preferred Certifications:

AWS Certification

Benefits Overview

At NASCO, we trust our workforce to be fully remote, working from their home. This benefit offers significant, personalized outcomes for each associate including work/life balance, savings on commuting, work clothing, and increased time to spend on personal activities.

Our full benefit package is designed to support the physical, mental, and financial health of our associates. We offer:

Physical and Mental Health Benefits

• Choice of Blue Cross Blue Shield Medical, Dental, and Vision Plans
• Telehealthcare – for Medical and Behavioral visits
• Generous PTO with buy/sell options
• 9 Company holidays, a floating day off, and a day off for volunteering
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness program - earn insurance discounts or credit towards health-related items

Financial Health Benefits

• 401K Plan with employer matching contributions
• Company-funded spending/reimbursement accounts to help with out-of-pocket medical expenses
• Bonus and Recognition programs
• Tuition Assistance
• Consultation with financial planner
• Basic Life & AD&D Insurance, Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance provided, and Supplemental Term Life Insurance is available

• Group Discount programs - mobile, technology services, etc., to help you save money

Other Benefits

• E-Learning – Comprehensive and current library of e-learning and performance support assets, available on demand and at no cost

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other grounds, race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability. Must have legal authority to work in the US.

We will not accept applicants that use AI when answering the screening questions. Applicants who use AI to answer any questions or to complete their application will not be considered for employment.