Principal Architect, Infrastructure Automation and Application Load Balancing

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of Infrastructure as Code and automation solutions across enterprise infrastructure platforms.
• Establish standards, patterns, and reusable frameworks for infrastructure automation.
• Use tools such as Terraform and Ansible to deploy, configure, and maintain infrastructure services.
• Support automation efforts across compute, storage, virtualization, operating systems, cloud platforms, and application load balancing.
• Provide architecture and engineering support for F5 BIG-IP and AWS Application Load Balancer environments.
• Work with subject matter experts across infrastructure, cloud, application, security, and operations teams to design and implement solutions.
• Participate in architecture reviews and ensure solutions align with enterprise standards, security requirements, and operational needs.
• Develop technical roadmaps, solution designs, implementation plans, and supporting documentation.
• Provide hands-on engineering support for key automation and load balancing initiatives.
• Create executive-ready presentations and communicate project updates, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Lead technical workstreams and provide direction to direct or indirect project team members as needed.
• Support agile delivery practices, project planning, prioritization, and execution.
• Promote standardization, documentation, automation, and continuous improvement across the environment.
• Work with business partners to analyze strategy and trends to define requirements, principles, and models that guide technology decisions; communicate and enforce technology standards.
• Drive digital innovation and develop roadmaps through new technologies and approaches to fulfill strategic business plans; define high-level migration plans to address gaps in current state.
• Coach, mentor, and lead technical subject matter experts to enable and drive consistency across technology architectures.
• Design and own governance, assurance, and standards activities for enterprise technology architecture compliance.
• Oversee and facilitate the evaluation, risk assessment, selection, and design of hardware and software technology and product standards.
• Deliver technology architecture artifacts, possibly including reference architectures or concepts of operation.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, infrastructure automation, and configuration management; hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Experience deploying and managing infrastructure across compute, storage, virtualization, operating systems, cloud, and related platforms.
• Experience with application load balancing technologies, preferably F5 BIG-IP and AWS Application Load Balancers.
• Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure architecture, engineering, and operations; ability to design reliable, secure, scalable, and supportable infrastructure solutions.
• Experience working with architects, engineers, operations teams, application teams, security teams, and business stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing executive-level presentations.
• Experience participating in architecture review or technical governance processes; ability to lead technical initiatives from design through implementation.
• Familiarity with agile delivery practices and project management approaches; ability to provide technical direction, mentoring, and project leadership as needed.
• Preferred: experience with Google Cloud Platform infrastructure or load balancing services, F5 Distributed Cloud Services, reusable Terraform modules/Ansible playbooks/automation pipelines, Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines, hybrid/multi-cloud environments, and infrastructure monitoring/security/compliance/operational governance.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Preferred: relevant certifications in cloud, infrastructure automation, networking, F5, AWS, Google Cloud, Terraform, Ansible, VMware, or related technologies.
• High School Grad / GED; Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience; Experience: 6+ years.

Benefits

• NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support employees and their eligible family members (details via company link).

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