Infrastructure Architect/Specialist

Our pharmaceutical client is seeking an Infrastructure Architect/Specialist (7+ years of experience) to modernize core infrastructure using VMware, Hyper-V and network segmentation

Provide architecture, technical leadership and hands-on infrastructure support for production-critical, regulated pharmaceutical manufacturing at Royalmount and Candiac sites. The scope spans servers, networking, virtualization, cybersecurity and infrastructure resilience, with changes accounting for availability, validation, quality and GxP requirements. The initial three-month contract offers potential to support a longer-term services relationship, with approximately two days onsite and additional plant presence when required.

Contract, Candiac, Hybrid, Working Hours: EST

Must Haves

• 7+ years of senior infrastructure engineering/architecture experience.
• VMware/Hyper-V expertise across servers, Windows Server, networking, firewalls, VLANs, VPNs, storage and backup/disaster recovery.
• Network architecture and segmentation connecting enterprise IT to manufacturing or other critical environments; secure, highly available infrastructure design where outages affect business or production.
• Infrastructure troubleshooting and hands-on technical leadership for complex upgrades and migrations.
• Bilingual English/French.

Nice to Have

• Pharmaceutical/life sciences, GMP/GxP or manufacturing infrastructure background.
• OT/IT infrastructure integration, industrial network segmentation and ISA/IEC 62443 awareness.
• Azure/hybrid infrastructure.
• Citrix and Active Directory.
• Linux and Cisco networking.

Responsibilities

• Assess current infrastructure to establish future-state architecture and identify risks, technical debt and modernization opportunities.
• Design modernized server, compute, virtualization, storage and network infrastructure, including on-premises integration with cloud services.
• Guide infrastructure upgrades and migrations through architecture and hands-on technical support.
• Establish technical standards, diagrams, architectural documentation and lifecycle roadmaps.
• Design LAN/WAN, VLAN, routing, switching, VPN, firewall and enterprise IT/manufacturing segmentation architectures.
• Support secure connectivity, remote access, vulnerability remediation and infrastructure hardening in partnership with cybersecurity teams.
• Improve backup, recovery, disaster recovery and redundancy to eliminate infrastructure single points of failure.