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# Infrastructure Architect/Virtualization Architect

- **Company:** Job Cloud Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Software Code Optimization, Disaster Recovery, Hyper-V, OpenShift, Dell PowerEdge, VCloud, Virtualization Technology, VMware VSphere, Private Cloud Environment, HybridCloud, Containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Nutanix, Cisco
- **Published:** October 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/6f8ee124-7f3a-4949-94c0-743ef2bc3721

## About the Role

* 8+ years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise compute infrastructure solutions.
 * Deep expertise in server technologies, virtualization platforms, and enterprise compute architectures.
 * Strong understanding of private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid cloud deployment models.
 * Experience with container platforms and modern application hosting environments.
 * Demonstrated ability to assess capacity, performance, resiliency, and availability requirements.
 * Experience leading infrastructure modernization, migration, and transformation initiatives.
 * Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage both technical and executive audiences.
 * Proven experience working across architecture, engineering, and operations teams.
 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field equivalent experience preferred.

Tools and Technologies:

 * VMware vSphere / VMware Cloud Foundation
 * Microsoft Hyper-V
 * Cisco UCS
 * Dell PowerEdge
 * HPE Compute Platforms
 * Nutanix
 * Kubernetes
 * Red Hat OpenShift
 * Microsoft Azure
 * Amazon Web Services (AWS)
 * Infrastructure Automation Toolsets
 * Monitoring and Capacity Planning Platforms
 * Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Solutions

## Description

* Define compute architecture standards, reference designs, and technology roadmaps across physical, virtualized, and cloud-based environments.
 * Assess workload requirements, capacity needs, performance objectives, availability targets, and operational constraints.
 * Lead solution design for server, virtualization, container-hosting, high-performance, and workload-acceleration platforms where applicable.
 * Guide modernization initiatives, including consolidation, migration, automation, lifecycle refresh, and adoption of cloud-native capabilities.
 * Coordinate architects, engineers, delivery teams, and technology partners through design, implementation, testing, and transition to operations.
 * Establish practices for monitoring, patching, capacity planning, resilience, disaster recovery, and ongoing platform optimization.
 * Communicate architectural tradeoffs, risks, costs, and recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders.
 * Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering and operations teams.
 * Drive best practices around scalability, reliability, security, and operational excellence.