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# Senior Enterprise Infrastructure Architect - Disaster Recovery & Resilience

- **Company:** ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS INC
- **Location:** Fairfax, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $185,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Active Directory, User Authentication, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, Databases, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery, Domain Name System (DNS), Failover, Network Segmentation, Real-Time Operating Systems, Remote Access Technology, Zero Trust Network Access, Software Engineering, Virtualization Technology, Data Logging, JavaScript Pagination Plugin, HybridCloud, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, CIS Benchmarks
- **Published:** October 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=555b684e75379b1a

## About the Role

* Demonstrated experience assessing disaster recovery capabilities and developing practical recovery architectures for critical enterprise services.
 * Experience defining and validating Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) in partnership with business and technical stakeholders.
 * Strong understanding of application and infrastructure dependencies, backup and replication strategies, recovery sequencing, failover, and failback.
 * Broad architectural knowledge of data centers, virtualization, storage, networking, and hybrid cloud environments.
 * Experience designing or improving Active Directory and identity services, including authentication, privileged access, DNS, and recovery of core identity infrastructure.
 * Strong understanding of network segmentation, secure remote access, perimeter security, and Zero Trust principles.
 * Experience evaluating legacy infrastructure and developing phased modernization roadmaps that improve security, availability, and recoverability.
 * Working knowledge of monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability practices that support early issue detection and faster recovery.
 * Experience planning or facilitating disaster recovery exercises, documenting results, and tracking corrective actions.
 * Ability to develop architecture diagrams, current-state assessments, target-state designs, technical standards, and roles and responsibilities matrices (RACI).
 * Strong communication and facilitation skills, including the ability to explain technical risks, tradeoffs, and investment options to CIOs, senior leaders, and nontechnical stakeholders.

## Description

* This position will lead technical discovery, assess existing systems, and develop comprehensive documentation of the County's current enterprise architecture across on-premises data centers and hybrid-cloud environments. The architect will work closely with infrastructure, cloud, database, desktop, security, and agency teams to translate complex technical and business needs into clear architecture artifacts and actionable delivery plans., * Serve as the primary architectural liaison for major facility move-outs and large-scale workload shifts, planning how to address capacity gaps and move enterprise platforms to scalable cloud infrastructure.
 * Work with infrastructure and database teams to:
 * Evaluate storage capability gaps.
 * Oversee hardware and software lifecycle strategies.
 * Run archive and retention proof-of-concepts (POCs) to reduce cost and risk.
 * Partner with desktop engineering to define:
 * Modern endpoint management capabilities.
 * Security baselines for devices and workspaces.
 * Strategies for "modern workplace" provisioning (on-prem, hybrid, and cloud).
 * Align cross-functional requirements for critical communication systems, including:
 * Messaging platform upgrades.
 * Contact center capabilities.
 * Unified paging and alerting architectures.
 * Establish and evolve cloud governance models, including:
 * Landing zone and account/subscription structures.
 * Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) standards and patterns.
 * Preparation of materials and options for Architecture Review Board (ARB) discussions.
 * Facilitate workshops with agencies and technical teams to surface requirements, constraints, and opportunities, and translate them into practical roadmaps.