Infrastructure Architect in Toronto

Location: Toronto, ON

Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid — 2 days onsite (subject to change)

Contract Duration: 6 months (with potential for extension)

Pay Rate: C$83.00–C$100.00 / Hour (CAD)

Shift / Schedule: Monday to Friday – core business hours

Travel Requirements: Not required

We are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Architect to develop and maintain architecture frameworks that support the most efficient, reliable, scalable, and secure options to meet business and technology strategy needs. The ideal candidate will bring architectural experience and expertise in designing both on-premises solutions as well as pure public and mixed hybrid cloud solutions. Azure knowledge, hands-on experience, and certification are a plus.

The role requires an understanding of Microsoft stacks, how version differences affect feature capability, and how best to couple stacks, versions, and on-premises infrastructure to meet both technology and security requirements using the most secure and cost-effective solution. Understanding of automated deployment pipelines with Microsoft ARM templates and third-party tools like Terraform are an additional plus.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in designing and developing architecture framework to govern how solutions will be developed and implemented, including technology domain architecture strategy, policies, guiding principles, and standards.
• Work with the team and other technology partners to understand security standards and risks, as well as ratify solution security design.
• Research and analyze business requirements to recommend optimal architecture solutions.
• Review and approve detailed solution architecture and design to comply with architectural and security standards, patterns, and frameworks.
• Contribute to project plan development, offer input, manage projects and initiatives, direct assigned resources, communicate project status, and ensure timely issue escalation.
• Participate as an expert and consultant on projects of moderate to high risk and complexity.
• Help develop a Requirement Traceability Matrix for end-to-end traceability (solution to requirements).
• Build consensus, facilitate collaboration and decision-making within and across business units so IT strategy application aligns with architecture framework.
• Respect technology delivery practices, standards, and project management disciplines, including system requirements project documentation creation, cost and scope estimation.
• Support development, documentation, communication, and execution of a comprehensive strategy, policies, and solutions.
• Conduct pre- and post-implementation reviews to ensure solutions have met requirements, identify framework gaps, necessary enhancements, potential standards, and patterns for future versions.
• Contribute to the technology standards decision-making process.
• Establish parameters for continued solution investments, provide technical risk analysis and assessment.

Education Requirements:

Relevant post-secondary degree required

Must-Have Requirements:

• Infrastructure Architecture experience
• Azure experience
• Linux, Windows, JBoss, NodeJS, Springboot
• Database – Oracle RAC, OCaC, MS SQL, Mongo, Cassandra
• Storage – SAN, DAS & NAS
• Network – DNS, Load Balancing, Firewalls, CDN Technologies
• Security

Nice-to-Have Requirements:

• TD Architecture (Solution Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture) prior experience – strongly preferred
• Azure Solution Architecture Certificate

Required Experience:

10 years of overall experience in infrastructure architecture

Important Notes:

Interview process: 2 rounds maximum, with at least 1 in-person round