Senior Infrastructure Architect (D365)

This role is within the minerals processing industry, focused on enterprise infrastructure architecture across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. The position is fully remote and contracted as B2B initially for 3 months with potential extension.

• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure architecture, engineering, or senior infrastructure roles.
• Strong experience designing enterprise infrastructure solutions across on-premises and cloud.
• Proven experience across compute, storage, virtualization, backup, disaster recovery, identity, networking, cloud infrastructure, and workplace infrastructure.
• Previous experience supporting or architecting Microsoft Dynamics 365 rollouts from an IT infrastructure perspective.
• Experience with large-scale infrastructure transformation, migration, or integration projects.
• Experience in complex enterprise environments with multiple locations and technology platforms.
• Ability to produce architecture documentation, HLDs/LLDs, infrastructure assessments, and roadmaps.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise infrastructure architecture and design principles.
• Knowledge of Microsoft infrastructure technologies including Active Directory, Entra ID, DNS, DHCP, and Microsoft 365.
• Experience with Azure infrastructure and hybrid cloud architectures.
• Strong understanding of networking, security, and connectivity dependencies.
• Knowledge of virtualization technologies such as VMware.
• Familiarity with enterprise storage and backup technologies.
• Understanding of disaster recovery and business continuity architectures.
• Familiarity with infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code.
• Understanding of IT service management and operational needs.
• Experience with D365 infrastructure dependencies, connectivity, identity, security, and integration.

Infrastructure Architecture & Design:

• Design and develop enterprise infrastructure architectures across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Define infrastructure standards, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps.
• Design solutions covering compute, storage, virtualization, backup, disaster recovery, identity, and core infrastructure services.
• Ensure infrastructure solutions meet requirements for security, availability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Produce High-Level Designs (HLDs), Low-Level Designs (LLDs), architecture diagrams, and technical documentation.
• Assess existing environments and identify gaps, risks, and opportunities for standardization and modernization.
• Provide technical direction during infrastructure transformation, migration, and integration projects.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Infrastructure:

• Provide infrastructure architecture support for Microsoft Dynamics 365 implementations and rollouts.
• Assess and define the infrastructure requirements and dependencies for D365 deployments.
• Work with D365 application and functional teams to ensure infrastructure, identity, network, security, and integration requirements are understood and delivered.
• Design connectivity between D365 services and on-premises, Azure, and other enterprise environments.
• Support definition of environments, connectivity, authentication, security, and integration for D365.
• Assess network latency, bandwidth, firewall, DNS, proxy, and identity dependencies impacting D365.
• Ensure infrastructure readiness for D365 deployments and support technical troubleshooting during rollouts.
• Incorporate D365 infrastructure requirements into enterprise architecture standards and operational models.

Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure:

• Design and oversee hybrid infrastructure solutions across public cloud and on-premises.
• Lead infrastructure design for Azure and other cloud platforms.
• Define connectivity and integration between cloud and on-premises.
• Evaluate cloud adoption, migration, and modernization opportunities.
• Ensure cloud infrastructure aligns with enterprise security, governance, resilience, and cost optimization.

Infrastructure Transformation & Migration:

• Provide architecture leadership for migrations, consolidations, carve-outs, and M&A integration.
• Assess existing infrastructure and develop migration strategies.
• Define target infrastructure architectures and migration roadmaps.
• Identify technical dependencies, risks, and constraints for migration.
• Work with project and transition teams to implement infrastructure designs successfully.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management:

• Collaborate with network, workplace, security, cloud, application, and service management teams.
• Translate business and application requirements into infrastructure solutions.
• Provide technical guidance to project managers, engineers, and implementation teams.
• Communicate complex infrastructure concepts and risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Participate in architecture governance and design reviews.