Required Skills & Experience
- 7+ years of infrastructure engineering and architecture experience.
- Strong hands-on experience supporting enterprise compute and virtualization platforms.
- Experience designing, implementing, and supporting production infrastructure environments.
- Strong understanding of enterprise server hardware architecture and lifecycle management.
- Experience planning and executing infrastructure upgrades, refreshes, and modernization initiatives.
- Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues in production environments.
- Experience developing operational procedures, standards, and technical documentation.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to independently design, implement, support, and improve infrastructure solutions. Technical Experience
- Compute & Virtualization: VMware vSphere, KVM
- Operating Systems: Windows Server, RHEL, Ubuntu 18+, Debian 9+
- Infrastructure Services: Enterprise SAN, Enterprise Backup & Recovery Platforms (Rubrik, Avamar, Commvault, etc), Infrastructure as Code (Git, Terraform, Ansible, Itential, etc)
Ideal Candidate:
A senior-level infrastructure professional who can architect, build, support, and continuously improve enterprise compute platforms. This person thrives in hands-on environments and has experience leading modernization and lifecycle management efforts for mission-critical infrastructure.
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
Operational Technology (OT) or industrial environment experience Enterprise storage, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery experience PowerShell or Python scripting Kubernetes, Puppet, VMware Aria/vCenter, or ServiceNow experience
Job Description
We're seeking a Senior Infrastructure Architect to support critical Operational Technology (OT) compute environments for a large oil and gas company. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on enterprise server infrastructure, virtualization, platform modernization, lifecycle management, and operational excellence.
What You'll Do Design, implement, and support enterprise compute and virtualization platforms Lead hardware refresh, lifecycle management, and modernization initiatives Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and drive root cause analysis Improve platform reliability, automation, monitoring, and operational processes Develop infrastructure standards, documentation, and governance practices Partner with networking, cybersecurity, and operations teams on strategic initiatives
1 year contract, extensions possible Must be available to go onsite 4 days/week in one of the below locations with associated market pay range: San Antonio Texas: $70–$93/hr Findlay, Ohio: $70–$90/hr Denver, Colorado: $70–$100/hr