Principal Infrastructure Architect

About the role

The Principal Infrastructure Architect at ISO New England is responsible for defining and evolving the organization's enterprise infrastructure architecture. This role drives long-term strategy across cloud, hybrid, compute, storage, virtualization, reliability, observability, and performance, ensuring highly resilient, scalable, and mission-critical systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the 3–5 year infrastructure architecture roadmap, including technology lifecycles and technical debt reduction
• Influence infrastructure strategy supporting grid operations, markets, and enterprise IT
• Align infrastructure architecture with modern reliability, performance, and observability practices
• Design and evolve enterprise infrastructure platforms across cloud, hybrid, compute, storage, and virtualization
• Evaluate existing solutions for architectural integrity, scalability, and alignment with security standards
• Define standardized architecture patterns and reusable components to accelerate adoption
• Architect for high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), automated failover, and resilience
• Embed observability, telemetry, and capacity planning into all designs
• Support complex incident response and ensure lessons learned inform future architecture
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, the Principal Network Architect, and Security to ensure cross-domain alignment
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and implementation guidance to engineers and architects across the organization
• Participate in architecture reviews, governance forums, and post-incident retrospectives
• Champion SRS reliability, observability, and performance standards

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Security, or related field
• 10+ years’ experience with enterprise infrastructure technologies
• 5+ years in infrastructure or platform architecture roles
• Track record of building and operating infrastructure before moving into pure architecture work
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation (Terraform, Ansible, GitOps)
• Breadth across cloud, hybrid, compute, storage, and virtualization, with deep expertise in at least one or two areas
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering, capacity planning, and performance engineering
• Proven ability to lead complex initiatives and collaborate across teams

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a technical field
• Certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect (Professional), VCDX, CKA, Microsoft Enterprise, Terraform/Ansible
• Experience working in heavily regulated or audited environments (NERC CIP, SOC, FedRAMP, PCI, HIPAA, or similar)

Skills

• Strong understanding of reliability engineering, capacity planning, and performance engineering
• Proven ability to lead complex initiatives and collaborate across teams

Benefits

• Enhanced 401(k) and financial planning support
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development
• Wellness programs, including an onsite gym
• Flexible work hours
• Hybrid work environment (3 days/week onsite)
• Distance-based relocation assistance available

Pay

The expected salary range for this position is $180,000 - $200,000 per year. This role is also eligible for an annual performance bonus, comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental and vision), flexible spending and health savings accounts, a 401(k) plan with generous employer contributions and a student debt benefit, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance, critical illness and hospital indemnity benefits, paid time off, paid leave, a wellness program, an employee assistance program and other great company perks.

Schedule

This is a U.S. based role. If the successful candidate resides outside of the U.S., relocation will be required.