Infrastructure Architect

📋 Job Overview

Strategic Growth Partners provides both operations and strategic support to commercial organizations. Our client is a leading global professional services firm dedicated to helping organizations tackle their most complex business issues, maximize stakeholder value, and deliver sustainable change.

🏢 About [Company]

Their Corporate Performance Improvement practice is looking for an Infrastructure Architect to lead large-scale infrastructure and network modernization, hosting and cloud readiness assessment, and architecture transformation. This role requires someone who has redesigned enterprise infrastructure architecture at scale — not just optimized existing environments. The candidate should be well versed in the latest market trends in infrastructure technology transformation.

🎯 The Role

Workplace Type: 80% travel. Hybrid.
Employment Type: Full-Time
Clearance: Active Top Secret Clearance required; SCI eligibility preferred where required by the engagement.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Lead infrastructure assessment and baseline analysis, including topology mapping, capacity utilization, performance bottleneck identification, and cost analysis.
• Design modernized target infrastructure architectures (cloud-native, hybrid, or optimized on-premises) aligned with mission requirements, security accreditation constraints, and cloud migration roadmaps.
• Assess cloud readiness, identify gaps in skills, tooling, and governance, and develop a phased migration strategy with sequencing logic, including representative customer testing and exception handling before cutover.
• Develop infrastructure automation and IaC implementation roadmaps to reduce manual toil and improve deployment velocity.
• Evaluate dependencies between infrastructure modernization, application refactoring, enterprise service migrations, and broader digital transformation initiatives.
• Define and integrate infrastructure findings into our client's broader engagement scope and deliverables, partnering with A&M's Digital and Technology Services business and other practices.
• Support Digital and Technology Services practice development through internal training, content creation, and people development.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional experience in infrastructure architecture for complex, large enterprises, with consulting or advisory delivery experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading infrastructure modernization, cloud migration, or large-scale transformation programs.
• DoD or federal infrastructure environment experience is strongly preferred. Deep modernization experience in other regulated industries, such as financial services or healthcare, may substitute.
• Bachelor's degree required. Cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Administrator), infrastructure and security certifications (CISSP, CCNP, ITIL Master), or equivalent certifications are strongly preferred. Certifications that satisfy DoD 8140 workforce requirements are a plus.
• Comfortable with travel up to 80%, including on-site work as required.
• Active Top Secret Clearance required; SCI eligibility preferred where required by the engagement.
• United States citizenship required.
• Must physically reside in the United States.
• Ability to meet DoD information system access and training requirements, including annual cyber awareness training and, where applicable, DoD 8140 workforce qualification requirements.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Has designed and led large-scale infrastructure and network modernization programs — not just operated existing systems. Understands the dependency between infrastructure readiness and application modernization success, and the security accreditation steps that gate both. Can work across infrastructure, security, operations

🎁 Benefits

Compensation: Hourly rate is DOE.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Active Top Secret Clearance required; SCI eligibility preferred where required by the engagement. United States citizenship required. Must physically reside in the United States.