Senior Infrastructure Architect
Description
Essential Functions & Responsibilities
Senior Infrastructure Architect The Senior Infrastructure Architect is responsible for the strategic design, governance, and optimization of enterprise infrastructure across Arcwood. This role architects and oversees cloud, network, cybersecurity, data center, telecommunications, and operational technology (OT) infrastructure supporting treatment, storage, disposal (TSD) facilities, hazardous waste operations, transportation fleets, laboratory environments, field services, and corporate functions.
The Senior Infrastructure Architect establishes enterprise standards and long-term technology roadmaps that ensure secure, resilient, scalable, and compliant infrastructure capable of supporting 24/7 operations across multiple facilities and locations. The role partners with business leaders, operations, cybersecurity, engineering, and acquisitions teams to modernize infrastructure, enable digital transformation, and support organizational growth.
Arcwood Environmental is pursuing growth through M&A activity, and this role will serve as the technical owner for infrastructure to support acquired organizations through their onboarding and long-term operational needs.
- Prioritizes health and safety by adhering to policies, processes, and consistently maintaining safe practices
- Designs, documents, and implements enterprise infrastructure architectures across multiple sites, including treatment, storage, disposal (TSD), incineration, laboratory, transportation, field service, and corporate operations
- Architects, engineers, and optimizes highly available cloud, network, server, storage, virtualization, telecommunications, backup, and disaster recovery solutions that meet performance, scalability, resilience, and cybersecurity requirements
- Develops and maintains enterprise infrastructure standards, reference architectures, technical roadmaps, engineering guidelines, and operational best practices to drive consistency and standardization across all locations
- Leads infrastructure modernization initiatives, including cloud adoption, data center optimization, network transformation, platform consolidation, automation, and technology lifecycle management
- Serves as the technical owner for infrastructure needs throughout Arcwood’s pursuit of growth through M&A activities; provides end-to-end technical leadership, including infrastructure due diligence, target-state architecture design, integration execution, risk mitigation, and post-acquisition technology stabilization
- Designs and supports enterprise WAN, SD-WAN, LAN, wireless, VPN, internet connectivity, Microsoft Azure, Active Directory, Entra ID, storage, virtualization, backup, and identity management platforms
- Develops infrastructure-as-code, automation, orchestration, monitoring, and configuration management solutions to improve performance, reliability, security, and operational efficiency
- Architects secure infrastructure supporting operational technology (OT), industrial control systems, laboratory environments, facility operations, and remote field locations while maintaining appropriate separation and integration between OT and enterprise IT environments
- Implements and maintains cybersecurity controls, including network segmentation, Zero Trust architecture, secure remote access, identity governance, vulnerability remediation, security hardening, logging, and monitoring capabilities
- Establishes and validates business continuity, disaster recovery, high-availability, redundancy, backup, and resiliency strategies to support critical 24/7 operations
- Serves as the highest-level technical escalation point for complex infrastructure, cloud, network, systems, and security issues; leads root cause analysis efforts and develops long-term corrective action plans
- Conducts architecture reviews, technical assessments, proof-of-concepts, technology evaluations, and capacity planning activities to ensure infrastructure solutions align with business, operational, and regulatory requirements
- Assists with technical infrastructure due diligence, integration planning, and standardization efforts associated with acquisitions, facility expansions, and enterprise growth initiatives
- Partners with digital, cybersecurity, operations, engineering, and business leaders to evaluate requirements, develop technical solutions, and support strategic initiatives that improve safety, operational efficiency, system reliability, and scalability
- Provides technical leadership and mentorship to infrastructure engineers and administrators while maintaining detailed architectural documentation, network diagrams, standards, and operational procedures
- Takes on additional duties as assigned to support the team and organization
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering or related field (required) - Master’s degree (preferred) - Certifications: - Azure Solutions Architect Expert (required) - Certified Information Systems Security Professional CISSP (preferred) - Cisco Certified Network Professional CCNP (preferred)Experience
- 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise infrastructure engineering, architecture or operations (required)
- 5+ years of experience designing and leading large-scale infrastructure environments (required)
- Experience supporting multi-site industrial, environmental services, manufacturing, logistics, utility, energy or other highly-regulated organizations (required)
- Experience with acquisitions, infrastructure integration, and enterprise standardization initiatives (preferred)
Overview
About Arcwood
Every advancement—from the products we use to the medicines and technologies we depend on—creates waste that must be handled responsibly. For more than 50 years, Arcwood Environmental has helped organizations across the United States manage the byproducts of progress safely and thoughtfully. With deep expertise and innovative waste management technology across a growing nationwide footprint, Arcwood protects people, communities, and the environment through work that often happens behind the scenes.
Our Values
We move forward together, one team with a shared purpose, counting on each other every day. Our core values demonstrate how we work together to deliver value for our customers, putting them at the center of all we do:
- Lead with Safety: We uphold the highest safety and compliance standards to protect our teams, our customers and the communities that count on us.
- Solve Problems Creatively: We push for better – advancing technologies, processes, and ideas that protect human health and the environment.
- Own It Together: We are individually and collectively accountable for our work and our impact, knowing that progress is only achieved by working together – with our customers, and with each other.
- Deliver for Customers: We put customers at the center of all we do. When we live our values – lead with safety, solving problems creatively, and owning our work together – the result is clear: we deliver exceptional value for our customers.
We’ve reached a unique point as a company: big enough to deliver broad capability and consistent performance, while striving to be nimbler and more responsive to our customers’ evolving needs. Come join Arcwood and be part of our legacy of environmental leadership!