Infrastructure Architect (HPC & Enterprise Infrastructure)

About the Role

Hays is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect to join a significant technology transformation program in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This contract role focuses on defining and designing enterprise-scale compute, storage, virtualization, and infrastructure architectures. The position specifically supports advanced High-Performance Computing (HPC) and AI environments.

Role Context and Collaboration

The Infrastructure Architect will collaborate closely with HPC, AI, data center, network, security, and operations teams. The primary objective is to develop robust, scalable, and resilient infrastructure platforms capable of supporting mission-critical workloads within a large-scale enterprise setting. This role is suited for professionals with over 10 years of experience in delivering complex infrastructure environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end infrastructure architectures encompassing compute, storage, virtualization, backup, and supporting platforms.
• Define infrastructure requirements aligned with business, technical, performance, scalability, and resilience objectives.
• Develop infrastructure sizing models based on workload, capacity, availability, and growth requirements.
• Evaluate infrastructure technologies, solutions, and architecture approaches for optimal performance and cost efficiency.
• Define integration requirements across compute, storage, networking, security, and operational environments.
• Review technical designs, architecture documents, infrastructure specifications, and vendor proposals.
• Collaborate with HPC, AI, data center, network, security, and operations teams to ensure architecture alignment.
• Develop architecture standards, technical recommendations, reference designs, and infrastructure blueprints.
• Support infrastructure planning, technology selection, and strategic architecture decision-making.
• Work closely with leading infrastructure vendors, technology partners, and systems integrators.

Required Experience and Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Infrastructure Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, or Solution Architecture roles.
• Strong experience designing enterprise-scale compute and storage environments.
• Proven expertise in infrastructure sizing, capacity planning, scalability assessment, and resiliency design.
• Hands-on experience with Enterprise Servers, Storage Platforms, Virtualization Technologies, Backup & Recovery Solutions, and Data Center Infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of high-availability, disaster recovery, performance optimization, and infrastructure security principles.
• Experience working with major infrastructure vendors such as Dell Technologies, HPE, Lenovo, IBM, NetApp, Pure Storage, NVIDIA, and Cisco.
• Experience reviewing and evaluating vendor solutions, RFP responses, and infrastructure proposals.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting High Performance Computing (HPC) environments.
• Experience supporting AI infrastructure and GPU-based architectures.
• Experience within large-scale enterprise, research, supercomputing, government, or national technology programs.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, containerized infrastructure, and modern platform architectures.
• Experience working with globally recognized HPC and supercomputing organizations.

Contract Details

This is a 12-month contract position, with the possibility of extension.