Overview
As an Infrastructure Architect at our company, your role involves defining and maintaining the banks' infrastructure architecture blueprint in alignment with enterprise architecture standards. Your key responsibilities include:
- Designing infrastructure solutions encompassing compute, storage, network, virtualization, cloud, on-premises data centers, and hybrid architectures.
- Reviewing high-level (HLD) and low-level (LLD) architectural designs for new initiatives and technology modernization programs from an infrastructure perspective.
- Ensuring architectures meet high availability/disaster recovery (HA/DR), performance, scalability, and compliance needs.
- Architecting hybrid/multi-cloud environments (Azure/AWS/GCP) suitable for regulated banking workloads.
- Defining landing zones, cloud governance boundaries, and cloud-native infrastructure patterns.
- Guiding cloud migration strategies, infrastructure automation, and container platforms (AKS, EKS, OpenShift).
- Establishing and maintaining infrastructure standards, patterns, and guardrails.
- Participating in architecture review boards (ARB) and approving infrastructure designs.
- Conducting gap analysis and recommending improvements to current infrastructure.
- Collaborating with Information Security and ITGRC teams to design secure infrastructure aligned with Zero Trust principles, Data Privacy guidelines, and Regulatory requirements (RBI, PCI-DSS, SWIFT, etc.).
- Ensuring solutions include appropriate controls for identity, access, logging, monitoring, and vulnerability management.
- Evaluating emerging technologies and recommending adoption paths.
- Driving modernization initiatives such as virtualization consolidation, infrastructure-as-code, software-defined networking, and containerization.
In addition to the above responsibilities, you will also work with Information Security and ITGRC teams to design secure infrastructure aligned with industry best practices and regulatory requirements. This role requires a strong understanding of infrastructure architecture principles and the ability to design and implement robust solutions that meet the organization's needs.
