IT Infrastructure Architect

Your Job

Koch Engineered Solutions is seeking an IT Infrastructure Architect to bridge the gap between business needs and technical capabilities.

This role provides technical leadership and consulting across the organization, from supporting strategic decision-making down to project planning.

The IT Architect will be responsible for defining and executing on the technology visions and strategies, including developing related roadmaps.

Strong business acumen and technology expertise are essential for facilitating effective communication, collaboration, and delivering technology solutions to KES businesses and other technology teams.

What You Will Do

• Collaborate with stakeholders and IT capabilities to define problems / opportunities, design, and implement IT solutions that achieve operational excellence and desired business results.
• Develop, document, communicate, and enforce technology standards and reference architectures.
• Conduct research on emerging technologies and recommend technologies that align with current and future business and technology outcomes.
• Partner with other IT capabilities and business stakeholders to gain knowledge of our companies' strategic business plans.
• Produce clear technical design documents (technical diagrams, work process diagrams, TCO / ROI analyses, risk analysis)
• Perform alternatives analysis with clearly defined problems / opportunities and objectives with clear alignment to the business's functional requirements.
• Partner with application teams to consult on the design of application architectures for classic on-premises and virtualized environments
• Create, document, and refine work processes, governance models, and runbooks to drive consistency and efficiency
• Serve as the senior escalation point for complex incidents and performance issues
• Influence cross-functional teams and external partners without direct supervisory authority
• Participate in change advisory boards to advocate for our customers and understand how changes potentially could impact us
• Manage IT projects and coordination of resources, ensuring quality of delivery within time, budget, and scope.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• IT architecture or Senior Systems Engineering experience, including in hands-on design and implementation
• Experience with multiple infrastructure technology pillars (endpoint, mobility, compute, storage, network, security, etc.) and their management tools
• Expertise in Windows Server Management, Active Directory, DNS, Networking, and Windows File Shares
• Experience conducting research, experimenting, and deploying emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products
• Practical Experience with Cloud Architecture design (AWS or Azure)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; adept at tailoring messages for technical, executive, and nontechnical audiences
• Proven project management skills and the ability to deliver results

What Will Put You Ahead

• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures on AWS or Azure
• Proven success managing MSP relationships and SLAs

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs.

This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions.

Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data.

The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location.

If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds.

We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers.

Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives.

We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most.

Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation / time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance.

Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region.

If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs.

We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test.

This employer uses E-Verify.

Please click here for additional information.

For Illinois E-Verify information click here , aquí , or tu ).

LI-MW1