Insight Global is hiring a Senior Infrastructure Architect to own the on-premises infrastructure architecture behind its customer's product and next-generation platform: the full data centre stack of enterprise servers, networking and storage, including Ceph distributed storage and VMware virtualization.

This role is reporting to the Director, Engineering and Architecture. The architect is responsible for designing infrastructure that meets customer performance, reliability, security and business continuity needs at a competitive cost. They will bridge the hardware and software teams, advise customer projects through deployment, and drive infrastructure as code and automated deployment with the development teams, keeping deployments compatible across on-premises and cloud environments.

Infrastructure architecture and designo Architect resilient on-premises infrastructure on commodity hardware: server configuration, networking, storage, virtualization and power.o Balance performance and redundancy against cost and supportability.o Advise on capacity planning, replication, recovery, data protection and performance tuning.

Hardware and software integrationo Act as the bridge between hardware and software teams, translating application requirements into infrastructure designs.o Advise on server sizing, storage capacity, network architecture and hardware compatibility, and keep deployments compatible across on-premises and cloud environments.o Work with development teams to implement infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD pipelines, test-driven development and automated deployment.

Troubleshootingo Work with developers,



Systems Engineering and Tier 3 support to root-cause complex issues across hardware, storage, network and software layers.

Architectural leadership and collaborationo Work with the other architects to define and drive a unified product vision.o Collaborate with sales, product management, software development and operations.o Participate in Systems Engineering qualification of new hardware and software.Customer projectso Advise the Technical Lead on customer projects with complex design and integration needs.o Support customer design and integration workshops, documenting integration requirements and responsibilities.Documentationo Produce and maintain architecture diagrams, design documents, configuration guidance and best practices.

15+ years in systems engineering or IT infrastructure, including 8+ years architecting enterprise systems infrastructure.

Hands-on data centre architecture experience across the full hardware suite: enterprise servers, networking, firewalls and storage platforms.

Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, test-driven development and automated deployment.

Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, to keep deployments compatible across on-premises and cloud environments.





Proven record designing redundant, high-performance and secure on-premises infrastructure.

Ability to translate software requirements into infrastructure design decisions.

Strong troubleshooting skills across hardware, storage, network and software layers.

Explicit communicator who can explain complex infrastructure to customers and non-technical stakeholders.

Red Ceph Storage or IBM Storage Ceph experience.

Hybrid or multi-cloud deployment experience (e.g. AWS, Azure).

Knowledge of S3-compatible and AWS object storage concepts.

Experience managing 24x7 data centre operations.

Customer-facing solution design experience, including occasional pre-sales or RFP work.

Previous technical leadership role (e.g. team lead) and mentoring of engineers.

Performance testing and quantitative technology evaluation.

Bachelor's or graduate degree in computer science, engineering or IT, or equivalent experience.

Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to View email address on apply.j-vers.com.

📌 Senior IT Infrastructure Architect (Ottawa)
🏢 Insight Global
📍 Ottawa