Vailexa
Digital Hosting Domain Architect
Houston, TX
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About the role
- The Digital Hosting Domain Architect is a senior technical leadership role responsible for shaping, designing, and guiding enterprise hosting capabilities across cloud, on premises, compute, storage, virtualization, and hybrid infrastructure services.
Responsibilities
- Design end to end digital hosting architectures that meet global business requirements, including availability, resiliency, disaster recovery, scalability, performance, and operational supportability.
- Develop and maintain global technical standards, guidelines, reference architectures, and design patterns for hosting platforms and infrastructure services.
- Partner with cybersecurity teams to ensure hosting solutions comply with security policies, regulatory requirements, and enterprise risk expectations.
- Drive strategic hosting initiatives focused on modernization, reliability, operational excellence, and cost optimization.
- Collaborate across business, IT, operations, cybersecurity, and vendor organizations to ensure successful delivery of hosting solutions.
Requirements
- Strong background in enterprise IT infrastructure, with at least three years of focused experience in hosting architecture.
- Deep knowledge of virtualization technologies, including VMware or comparable enterprise virtualization platforms.
- Hands on experience with enterprise storage solutions, including SAN, NAS, object storage, backup, archiving, and cloud storage services.
- Working knowledge of networking concepts related to hosting services, application connectivity, resiliency, and performance.
- Experience with automation, scripting, and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, or similar technologies.
Nice to have
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect, VMware VCP, or comparable infrastructure certifications.
- Experience supporting global, highly available, mission critical hosting environments.
- Experience driving infrastructure modernization, cloud adoption, cost optimization, and operational excellence initiatives.
- Leadership Competencies
- Technical Leadership: Provide direction, coaching, and architectural guidance to engineers and administrators in a rapidly evolving technology environment.
- Adaptability: Apply an agile mindset to changing business requirements, evolving technology capabilities, and emerging infrastructure patterns.
- Continuous Improvement: Champion innovation, simplification, cost optimization, reliability, and operational excellence across digital hosting services.
- Tools and Technologies:
Skills
- Microsoft Azure
- VMware
- Terraform
- Ansible
- PowerShell
- SAN Storage Platforms
- NAS Storage Platforms
- Object Storage Solutions
- Backup and Archiving Technologies
- Infrastructure as Code Frameworks
- Enterprise Compute Platforms
- Hybrid Cloud Technologies
Benefits
- Lead capacity planning, performance optimization, lifecycle planning, and regular health assessments for hosting infrastructure.
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