Sr Solutions Architect

BravoTECH is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect for a contract opportunity with a premier client in Euless, Texas. This role focuses on designing resilient infrastructure, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions for mission-critical environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery sessions with client stakeholders, engineers, operations teams, and business leaders.
• Assess infrastructure, broadcast workflows, connectivity, dependencies, and operational risks.
• Design resilient architectures supporting broadcast playout, signal redundancy, satellite, and live-stream environments.
• Develop automated failover/failback solutions with near-zero RTO for critical services.
• Design diverse network and telecom solutions, including WAN, carrier, internet, and site-to-site redundancy.
• Define RTO/RPO, availability targets, recovery requirements, and data-loss tolerances.
• Develop high-availability, disaster recovery, replication, backup, and secondary-site architectures.
• Identify single points of failure and recommend appropriate remediation.
• Develop DR testing strategies, recovery exercises, failover procedures, and operational documentation.
• Create conceptual architecture diagrams, implementation roadmaps, bills of materials, and budgetary estimates.
• Coordinate internal teams, vendors, carriers, and specialized engineering partners.
• Present technical recommendations, risks, costs, and tradeoffs to both technical and executive audiences.
• Clearly communicate complex technical concepts to the internal project team and client stakeholders.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Solutions Architecture, Infrastructure Engineering, Disaster Recovery, or Business Continuity.
• Hands-on experience with broadcast playout and signal redundancy.
• Strong knowledge of satellite and live-stream workflows.
• Experience designing automated failover and near-zero RTO solutions.
• Strong experience with diverse network and telecom architecture, including carrier and connectivity redundancy.
• Demonstrated experience with DR planning, testing, recovery procedures, and documentation.
• Strong knowledge of networking, compute, storage, virtualization, backup, replication, and cloud technologies.
• Experience designing highly available on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Ability to identify dependencies and single points of failure across complex infrastructure.
• Excellent client-facing discovery, consulting, presentation, and technical communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting broadcast, live media, streaming, or other 24x7 mission-critical environments.
• Experience with SD-WAN, private circuits, internet redundancy, and automated network failover.
• Knowledge of datacenter resiliency, secondary-site readiness, power, cooling, and physical infrastructure.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, VMware, Microsoft infrastructure, enterprise storage, backup, and replication platforms.
• Familiarity with immutable backups, cyber recovery, cyber vaulting, and ransomware-resilient architectures.
• Relevant cloud, networking, disaster recovery, business continuity, or security certifications.

Key Deliverables

• Current-state infrastructure and resiliency assessment
• Dependency and single-point-of-failure analysis
• Broadcast and network resiliency architecture
• Recovery, failover, and failback strategy
• Primary/secondary site recommendations
• DR testing and readiness plan
• Conceptual solution architecture and diagrams
• Implementation roadmap and project phases
• Bill of materials and budgetary estimates
• Technical risks, assumptions, dependencies, and tradeoff analysis

Schedule

• 3-6 month contract
• Hybrid onsite 3 days per week in Euless, Texas

Degree open to c2c or w2.