Western Digital

Western Digital

Senior Systems Architect

San Jose, CA, United States · Senior

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About the role

  • It's real systems, at real scale, people solving some of the hardest challenges in technology today.
  • Join us and let's shape the future of data.
  • The Senior Systems Architect is a senior technical leader responsible for the architecture, engineering, standardization, and evolution of enterprise compute and infrastructure platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Develop architecture standards and reference designs for scalable, resilient, secure, and supportable infrastructure.
  • Lead complex troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across compute, virtualization, operating systems, storage, networking, and application dependencies.
  • Drive platform modernization, consolidation, migration, technology refresh, and infrastructure lifecycle initiatives.
  • Lead infrastructure automation and platform-engineering strategy across compute and related data center technologies.
  • Develop automation using technologies such as PowerShell, Python, Ansible, Terraform, APIs, Git, and CI/CD platforms.
  • Develop self-service and API-driven infrastructure capabilities that reduce manual administrative work.
  • Partner with the Principal Storage Architect to ensure compute and virtualization platforms integrate effectively with enterprise storage.
  • Own architecture and standards for server and hypervisor networking, including host connectivity, NIC configuration, virtual networking, resiliency, performance, and storage-related network traffic.
  • Partner with Network Engineering on physical connectivity, VLANs, routing, addressing, network fabrics, and data center network integration.
  • Maintain clear ownership boundaries: this role owns server and hypervisor networking; enterprise switching, routing, firewall, and network architecture remain with Network Engineering.

Nice to have

  • Serve as a senior technical authority for enterprise compute, virtualization, Windows, Linux, container, and server infrastructure.
  • Architect virtualization and compute solutions across platforms such as Hyper-V, VMware, Nutanix AHV/KVM, and emerging technologies.
  • Define standards for operating system deployment, configuration, lifecycle management, patching, upgrades, security, high availability, disaster recovery, capacity, and performance.
  • Establish enterprise server hardware standards covering compute, memory, accelerators, firmware, network interfaces, power, cooling, and lifecycle management.
  • Evaluate new infrastructure technologies through technical assessments, proof-of-concepts, benchmarking, and total-cost-of-ownership analysis.
  • Identify repetitive operational activities and replace them with standardized, automated, policy-driven workflows.
  • Apply Infrastructure as Code and software-engineering practices including source control, reusable modules, peer review, testing, release management, and automated validation.
  • Integrate automation with enterprise systems including ITSM, CMDB, observability, security, vulnerability management, and asset management.

Benefits

  • Automate provisioning, configuration, patching, upgrades, firmware, compliance, vulnerability remediation, monitoring integration, and infrastructure retirement.

Company info

  • As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within.
  • We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us.
  • We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.
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