Infrastructure Architect

About the Company Charter is an award‑winning Canadian IT Solutions and Managed Services Provider founded in 1997. With offices across Canada, Charter delivers innovative IT solutions, managed services, project delivery, consulting, and staff augmentation expertise to organizations nationwide. Our mission is to align people, processes, and technologies to help clients enhance communication, optimize performance, and modernize their operations. Using business architecture methodology and human‑centered design, we guide clients through successful digital transformations, uncover new opportunities, and accelerate growth. Summary The Infrastructure Architect is responsible for designing, implementing, and governing enterprise infrastructure solutions that support business objectives, operational excellence, security, scalability, and performance. This role provides strategic direction for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure environments while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards and technology roadmaps. The Infrastructure Architect collaborates closely with IT leadership, engineering teams, security teams, vendors, and business stakeholders to develop resilient and cost-effective infrastructure solutions that enable organizational growth and digital transformation. Key Responsibilities Infrastructure Strategy & Architecture Develop and maintain the enterprise infrastructure architecture roadmap. Design scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Define infrastructure standards, best practices, and governance frameworks. Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to the infrastructure ecosystem. Align infrastructure architecture with business objectives, security requirements, and regulatory compliance standards. Infrastructure Engineering & Operations Provide architectural guidance for server, storage, virtualization, networking, and endpoint technologies. Ensure infrastructure designs meet performance, availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity requirements. Partner with operational teams to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and develop long-term solutions. Review and approve infrastructure designs, configurations, and implementation plans. Security & Compliance Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to integrate security-by-design principles. Ensure infrastructure solutions comply with corporate security policies and industry regulations. Evaluate and implement identity, access management, network security, and data protection controls. Participate in risk assessments and remediation planning. Stakeholder Collaboration Engage with business and technology leaders to understand strategic requirements. Translate business needs into technical architecture solutions. Present architectural recommendations, roadmaps, and investment proposals to executive stakeholders. Provide technical leadership and mentorship to infrastructure engineers and technical teams. Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field. 8+ years of progressive experience in IT infrastructure, systems engineering, cloud architecture, or enterprise architecture. 3+ years of experience designing enterprise-scale infrastructure solutions. Strong understanding of networking, compute, storage, virtualization, and cloud technologies. Experience with Cisco, Juniper, Microsoft Azure and/or AWS cloud platforms. Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks and infrastructure security best practices. Experience in disaster recovery, high availability, and business continuity planning. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities. Key Success Metrics Infrastructure availability and reliability targets achieved. Successful delivery of infrastructure transformation and modernization initiatives. Reduction in operational risk and security vulnerabilities. Improved infrastructure scalability and performance. Cloud cost optimization and operational efficiency gains. Compliance with architecture standards and governance requirements. Work Environment Hybrid work environment with occasional travel to corporate offices, data centers, client sites, or vendor locations as required.

The Infrastructure Architect designs and governs scalable enterprise infrastructure solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. They align technology roadmaps with business objectives while ensuring security, performance, and operational excellence.

Requires a Bachelor's degree and over 8 years of experience in IT infrastructure, with at least 3 years specifically in enterprise-scale design. Proficiency in cloud platforms like Azure or AWS and networking technologies such as Cisco or Juniper is essential.

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• Infrastructure Architecture
• Cloud Architecture
• Enterprise Architecture
• Network Security
• Disaster Recovery
• Virtualization
• Microsoft Azure
• AWS
• Cisco
• Juniper
• Governance Frameworks
• Stakeholder Management
• Systems Engineering
• Business Continuity Planning
• Identity and Access Management
• Security-by-Design
• Scalability Design
• Operational Efficiency
• Business Architecture
• Business Objectives
• Juniper Network Technologies
• Emerging Technologies
• Resilience
• Digital Transformation
• Technical Leadership
• IT Infrastructure
• Project Delivery
• Planning
• Cloud Financial Management (FinOps)
• Infrastructure Security
• Amazon Web Services
• Business Continuity
• Decision Making
• Cloud Computing Architecture
• Communication
• Regulatory Compliance
• Computer Science
• Information Technology
• Consulting
• Corporate Security
• Cyber Security
• Data Centers
• Information Privacy
• Design Elements And Principles
• Governance
• Leadership
• Scalability
• Identity And Access Management
• Innovation
• Problem Solving

• Technology
• Engineering
• Consulting
• Security & Safety
• Management & Leadership
• Infrastructure Architect
• Systems Analysts
• Database Architects

Formation minimale

Baccalauréat

Expérience minimale

10+ ans

Langue de l’offre

anglais

Heures de travail

40 heures par semaine