What are the responsibilities and job description for the Infrastructure Architect position at Akkodis?
Akkodis is seeking a Infrastructure Architect for a Contract job with a client in Jersey City NJ/Charlotte NC/Plano TX . Ideally looking for applicants with a solid background in the financial services industry .
Infrastructure Architect
Location: Jersey City NJ(1st preference)/Charlotte NC/ Plano TX
Interview Process
2 rounds total
- Hiring Manager
- Stakeholder / partner
Rate Range: $68/hour to $70/hour on W2 (Visa sponsorship is fine ) The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.
This is NOT a traditional SRE role
Manager is explicitly looking for: Infrastructure Architect with deep technical foundation
What the manager actually wants
- Architect who understands how to design systems for high availability
- Strong infrastructure background (core requirement)
- Someone who can evaluate current environment and design for resilience and reliability
- Will act as a partner to the manager and eventually take over as lead on this
Must-Have Skills
Prioritize candidates who:
- Have built or designed high-availability systems
- Come from infra-heavy backgrounds (not dev/SRE tool-heavy)
- Can explain architecture decisions clearly
- Infrastructure architecture experience across:
- Servers
- Networks
- Data centers
- Virtualization (VMware, etc.)
- Deep understanding of:
- High availability design
- Load balancing
- Failover strategies
- Capacity (CPU, memory, storage)
- Experience designing systems across availability zones / resilient environments
- Ability to speak to end-to-end system design
Nice-to-Have
- Cloud knowledge (NOT required to be Azure-certified)
- Capacity tools (TSCO or similar) – but focus is conceptual
- Observability / monitoring concepts
What will get candidates rejected
- Pure SRE profiles (too focused on tools like Grafana, CI/CD)
- Candidates without strong infrastructure fundamentals
- Inability to answer: “How do you design an application for high availability?
- Mostly on-prem / internal cloud
- Not heavily focused on public cloud transformation yet
If you are interested in this role, then please click APPLY NOW. For other opportunities available at Akkodis, or any questions, feel free to contact me at 3039422431 /soma.chakraborty@akkodisgroup.com.
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Salary : $68 - $70