Senior Infrastructure Architect

Role Overview

• Design and Implementation
• Align infrastructure architecture with business objectives and technical requirements, ensuring that solutions are both effective and future-proof.
• Integrate diverse technical domains—applications, infrastructure operations, data centers and networking—into unified infrastructure solutions that support enterprise-wide initiatives.
• Provide multi-layered technical expertise for next generation initiatives to best fit PL Technology’s future roadmap.
• Evaluate legacy systems to incorporate infrastructure best practices, proactively resolve infrastructure risks, and identify opportunities to remediate technical debt.
• Document and communicate architectural decisions and rationale to stakeholders across business and technical domains.
• Network Standards / Design
• Architect LANs, WANs, VPNs, and firewalls to ensure secure, reliable, and high-performance connectivity across the enterprise.
• Tailor network designs to meet business requirements, including scalability, redundancy, and compliance with Pacific Life standards.
• Integrate network components into broader infrastructure solutions involving data centers, cloud systems, and virtualization platforms.
• Security and Compliance
• Ensure designs comply to PL standards for network security, ensuring compliance with relevant Global / Regional standards and regulations also considered.
• Participate in disaster recovery and business continuity planning, ensuring infrastructure resilience and availability.
• Lead infrastructure architecture reviews and governance processes, ensuring compliance with enterprise standards and identifying opportunities for optimization.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure standards, including non-functional requirements (NFRs), blueprints, and reference architectures to guide consistent and efficient implementation.
• Collaboration and Coordination
• Partner with platform and application teams to incorporate infrastructure requirements and alignment with infrastructure roadmaps.
• Architect scalable infrastructure solutions in conjunction with the engineering team to support business applications and meet or exceed defined service level agreements (SLAs).
• Contribute to cloud strategy and hybrid infrastructure models, including migration planning, workload placement, and optimization.
• Engage in vendor evaluation and management, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and service expectations.

Requirements

• 8+ years of related experience
• 4-year degree or equivalent experience
• Demonstrable understanding of the life insurance (or reinsurance) industry
• Broad knowledge of the activities and processes involved in operating a global (re)insurance company, with deep knowledge of functional area (Actuarial/Finance/Operations)

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Firewalls

Benefits

• Your Benefits Start Day 1
• Prioritization of your health and well-being including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Wellbeing Reimbursement Account that can be used on yourself or your eligible dependents
• Generous paid time off options including: Paid Time Off, Holiday Schedules, and Financial Planning Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave as well as an Adoption Assistance Program
• Competitive 401k savings plan with company match and an additional contribution regardless of participation