Enterprise Infrastructure Architect - Disaster Recovery, Resiliency & Security

Location: Hybrid in Fairfax, Virginia, United States; onsite and remote work. Long-term contract expected.

Compensation: $80.00–$100.00 per hour; 40 hours per week.

Company

hirify.global delivers outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America.

What you will do

• Lead enterprise disaster recovery and business continuity architecture initiatives supporting critical facilities, emergency operations, 911 services, and backup locations.
• Assess current-state DR capabilities, RTO/RPO requirements, DR plans, infrastructure resiliency, recovery processes, and risks.
• Develop target-state disaster recovery and resiliency architectures, implementation roadmaps, strategic recommendations, standards, and architecture documentation.
• Define secure remote-access strategies, perimeter-defense patterns, identity architecture, authentication strategies, and governance models with cybersecurity and identity teams.
• Guide network segmentation and legacy network-overlay retirement initiatives while improving security boundaries.
• Enhance observability, monitoring, alerting, logging, and recovery capabilities; facilitate workshops and communicate technical risks and investment decisions to executives and agency stakeholders.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, infrastructure architecture, systems architecture, or closely related disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience leading disaster recovery, business continuity, resiliency, or infrastructure modernization initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of disaster recovery and business continuity planning, enterprise infrastructure architecture, Active Directory and identity services, network architecture and segmentation, cybersecurity architecture, and enterprise monitoring and observability.
• Experience conducting current-state assessments and creating future-state architecture roadmaps.
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to technical and non-technical audiences.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model combining onsite and remote work.
• Long-term contract engagement with a 40-hour work week.
• No security clearance required.
• Eligible employees may receive medical, dental, vision, spending account, life insurance, voluntary plan, and 401(k) benefits.