Data Center Architect

Responsibilities

• Weave end-to-end data center migration strategies, including on-premises to on-premises transitions, data center consolidations, and hybrid or cloud-adjacent migrations.
• Assess current data center environments, dependencies, and risks to create detailed migration roadmaps and execution plans.
• Architect target-state data center designs that align with business objectives, security standards, and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate closely with infrastructure, network, storage, security, and application teams to coordinate and execute migration activities.
• Establish standards, best practices, and architectural frameworks to support ongoing data center operations and future scalability.
• Lead technical decision-making across virtualization platforms, storage solutions, networking architectures, backup strategies, and disaster recovery planning.
• Oversee migration execution, including cutover planning, validation activities, and post-migration optimization.
• Identify and mitigate performance, availability, data integrity, and security risks throughout the migration lifecycle.
• Produce comprehensive documentation such as architecture diagrams, runbooks, migration plans, and operational handoff materials.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineering and operations teams.

Qualifications

• High School with 9+ years (or commensurate experience)
• Deep expertise in data center infrastructure, including compute, storage, and networking
• Strong understanding of virtualization platforms (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, etc.)
• Proficiency in designing and executing large-scale data center migrations
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and hybrid/cloud-adjacent architectures
• Experience with storage architectures (SAN, NAS, object storage)
• Advanced networking knowledge, including routing, switching, firewalls, and load balancing
• Familiarity with backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies
• Strong understanding of security frameworks, compliance requirements, and risk mitigation
• Experience with automation and orchestration tools (PowerShell, Ansible, etc.)
• Proficiency in dependency mapping, workload analysis, and capacity planning
• DoD 8140 IAT Level II certification (Security+, CCNA-Security, CSA+, CND)