{"id":4077880,"url":"https://alion.io/job/partnerone-principal-infrastructure-architect","title":"Principal Infrastructure Architect","company":{"id":716080,"name":"PartnerOne","domain":"partnerone.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/partnerone","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workable","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":83,"open_postings":13,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.692,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":24,"computed_at":"2026-11-11T05:49:22Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"contractor","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["EG"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":3500,"max":4300,"currency":"USD","period":"month","gross":null,"usd_annual":51600},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"FinOps","optional":false},{"name":"Hyper-V","optional":false},{"name":"ISO 27001","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"SOC 2","optional":false},{"name":"VMWare","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-11T16:04:58Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-11","last_verified_at":"2026-11-11T16:04:58Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"ABOUT CINCOM\nCincom builds and supports enterprise software used by organisations globally, with three main product lines CPQ, Eloquence and Smalltalk. Our customers run our products on their own provided infrastructure and, increasingly, hosted and managed by Cincom in the cloud. We are reorganising engineering, delivery and support so customers get one consistent, well-run service whatever they buy and however it is deployed.\nPURPOSE OF THE ROLE\nOur product engineering teams own how our software is built. We need one owner who works with the product teams to determine what it runs on, specifically, the infrastructure and deployment design for every product, whether Cincom hosts it in the cloud or the customer runs it on their own hardware.\nWhen a customer or colleague asks what hardware or cloud capacity a deployment needs for a given volume, how it should be laid out, or what it will cost to run, the Principal Infrastructure Architect provides the answer or options and stands behind it.\nThis is a hands-on role: you will design configurations, build them, test them with the product teams, and get into the detail when things go wrong.\nHOW THE ROLE WORKS\nA few points to be clear on:\nYou own infrastructure and deployment design, not software design. Application architecture stays with the individual product engineering teams; you work with them to understand how each product behaves under load and what it needs from the infrastructure.\nYou cover both Cincom-hosted and customer on-premise deployments. Hosting operations (patching, backups, monitoring, incidents) sit in Support with the Hosting Engineers, who build to your designs.\nYou set the direction for our cloud infrastructure and its commercials. Day-to-day subscription and cost management sits with the Hosting Engineers; you own the strategy, the provider relationship and the cost model behind our hosted pricing.\nYou work alongside our Principal AI Architect on the infrastructure our AI services need, including hardware for models we host locally as well as cloud capacity.\nYou support Sales, Pre-Sales and Client Success on key deals and accounts, so customers get one credible answer from Cincom on how to deploy and size our products. \nYou will create and maintain a standard, simple to use, sizing guide/calculator, to be used for all “standard” deployment requests\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\nInfrastructure and deployment design\nDefine and maintain reference deployment designs for each product, for cloud-hosted and on-premise: including servers/VMs, storage, networking, virtualisation, containers and databases.\nDesign for availability and resilience: high availability, load balancing, failover and disaster recovery.\nReview and sign off infrastructure design for each customer deployment and any significant change to it.\nOwn the design of our Kubernetes and container platform and decide where containerised deployment fits and where it does not.\nSizing and performance\nBuild and own an infrastructure sizing model for each product, starting with Eloquence and CPQ, that turns customer volumes and workload mix, online, batch and on-demand use for Eloquence and Model execution, quotation production and Analytics for CPQ, into the hardware or cloud capacity needed.\nOwn repeatable performance tests of deployment configurations with each product team and use the results to validate and improve the sizing models.\nTurn the models into clear sizing guidance that Sales, Delivery and customers can use with confidence.\nInvestigate infrastructure-related performance problems in live customer environments when escalated.\nCloud infrastructure and commercials\nSet our cloud infrastructure strategy, with Azure as today’s primary platform and managing any migration from Enavate hosting to Azure\nOwn the relationship with our cloud providers and lead negotiations on commitments and reserved capacity with key stakeholders.\nBuild the cost-to-serve model for hosted customers, so we price hosting and volume-based licensing on real numbers.\nSpecify hardware and capacity for any infrastructure Cincom runs itself, including for locally hosted AI models.\nCustomers and pre-sales\nAct as the senior voice with key customers and prospects on infrastructure, sizing, resilience and deployment choices.\nSupport RFIs, RFPs and security questionnaires with accurate, reusable infrastructure content.\nProcess and compliance\nWork with our process and compliance lead so our infrastructure and deployment designs support ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certification in 2027 and our obligations under the EU Cyber Resilience Act.\nHelp build the Drata knowledge base for responses to compliance and security questionnaires\nRequirements\nEssential\nSenior infrastructure architecture experience at an enterprise software vendor, managed service provider or large IT organisation, covering both on-premise and cloud.\nA proven record of sizing and performance-testing infrastructure for enterprise applications, including capacity modelling from real workload data.\nDeep knowledge of servers, storage, networking and virtualisation (for example VMware or Hyper-V), and of database infrastructure.\nStrong Azure infrastructure experience (AZ-305 or equivalent level), with working knowledge of AWS.\nHands-on experience with containers, Kubernetes and infrastructure as code.\nA solid grasp of cloud commercials: reserved capacity, commitments, cost management and FinOps practice.\nThe confidence to give customers and senior colleagues a clear answer, and the judgement to know when the honest answer is “we need to test that”.\nEnglish fluency\nDesirable\nExperience sizing infrastructure for high-volume batch and document-processing workloads.\nExperience of GPU and other infrastructure for AI workloads, including locally hosted models.\nExperience of ISO 27001 or SOC 2 environments.\nExperience working remotely across countries, languages and time zones.\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE IN THE FIRST 12 MONTHS\nA validated infrastructure sizing model for Eloquence in use by Sales and Delivery, with CPQ and Smalltalk following.\nSigned-off reference deployment designs for each product, for hosted and on-premise.\nA repeatable performance-test approach for deployment configurations, running with each product team.\nCost-to-serve known for every hosted customer, feeding hosting and licence pricing.\nDisaster recovery designs tested for hosted customers, with the results documented.\nFewer escalations caused by under- or over-sized deployments.\nBenefits\nIndependent Contractor (Contractor is responsible for applicable taxes and statutory obligations, subject to the agreement and local law)\nFull-time role\nAvailability for occasional short travels\nPayment in USD\nEquipment provided by the company\nContractor fee range - $3,500-$4,300 USD per month\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nPartnerOne is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.\nAI Use Disclosure\nDuring our recruitment process, we may use technology, including AI-assisted tools, to support application review or scheduling. These tools support our recruiting team and do not replace human decision-making. 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