Senior Systems Architect at Alan & Grant

Job Summary

• This role is for a visionary who can design scalable infrastructure, create operational frameworks, build automation blueprints, and guide a cross-functional team of engineers to bring our infrastructure dreams to life.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect our self-hosted cloud platform: networking, compute, storage, orchestration, monitoring, and security.
• Define and document our multi-tenant cloud architecture, including:User/resource isolation, Billing-aware provisioning, VM lifecycle management, Self-service controls.
• Choose the core stack: from hypervisor to orchestration tools (Proxmox vs OpenStack, Ansible vs Terraform, ZFS vs Ceph).
• Set and enforce infrastructure policies and SLAs (uptime, backups, failover, incident response).
• Lead hardware/software integration in local data centers (rack design, KVM over IP, remote management).
• Manage the infra team — delegate tasks, review designs, mentor engineers.
• Define secure access and monitoring strategies (e.g., central logging, Zero Trust access, real-time alerting).

Requirements

• 6 - 10+ years experience in infrastructure architecture or systems engineering leadership.
• Proven experience building or scaling private cloud environments or hosted platforms.
• Strong knowledge of: Hypervisors: Proxmox, KVM, VMware, Storage Systems: Ceph, ZFS, GlusterFS, Linux Systems: Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Networking: VLANs, routing, BGP, firewalls, VPNs, TLS.
• Deep experience with automation and orchestration tools (Ansible, Terraform, PXE, booting, IPMI)
• Confident leading system design discussions, risk assessments, and long-term roadmap planning