Sr Infrastructure Architect II

Job Description

Pacific Life is investing in bright, agile, and diverse talent to contribute to our mission of innovating our business and creating a superior customer experience. We’re actively seeking a talented Senior Infrastructure Architect II to join our PL Technology Shared Services team. This person should be onsite in the North Carolina area.

As a Senior Infrastructure Architect II, you’ll play a key role in Pacific Life’s growth and long-term success by defining and shaping the global PL infrastructure architecture, and bringing together the expertise of Application / Tech Owners, I&O, and Network in designing and provisioning scalable infrastructure. This includes the development and maintenance of infrastructure standards, NFRs, Blueprints, and Reference Architectures. You will fill a new role that sits in the PL Technology department.

Your colleagues will include enterprise architects, engineers, and system administrators.

• Align infrastructure architecture with business objectives and technical requirements, ensuring that solutions are both effective and future-proof.
• Integrate diverse technical domains—applications, infrastructure operations, data centers and networking—into unified infrastructure solutions that support enterprise-wide initiatives.
• Provide multi-layered technical expertise for next generation initiatives to best fit PL Technology’s future roadmap.
• Evaluate legacy systems to incorporate infrastructure best practices, proactively resolve infrastructure risks, and identify opportunities to remediate technical debt.
• Document and communicate architectural decisions and rationale to stakeholders across business and technical domains.

• Architect LANs, WANs, VPNs, and firewalls to ensure secure, reliable, and high-performance connectivity across the enterprise.
• Tailor network designs to meet business requirements, including scalability, redundancy, and compliance with Pacific Life standards.
• Integrate network components into broader infrastructure solutions involving data centers, cloud systems, and virtualization platforms.

• Ensure designs comply with PL standards for network security, ensuring compliance with relevant Global / Regional standards and regulations also considered.
• Participate in disaster recovery and business continuity planning, ensuring infrastructure resilience and availability.
• Lead infrastructure architecture reviews and governance processes, ensuring compliance with enterprise standards and identifying opportunities for optimization.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure standards, including non-functional requirements (NFRs), blueprints, and reference architectures to guide consistent and efficient implementation.

• Partner with platform and application teams to incorporate infrastructure requirements and alignment with infrastructure roadmaps.
• Architect scalable infrastructure solutions in conjunction with the engineering team to support business applications and meet or exceed defined service level agreements (SLAs).
• Contribute to cloud strategy and hybrid infrastructure models, including migration planning, workload placement, and optimization.
• Engage in vendor evaluation and management, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and service expectations.

• 8+ years of related experience.
• 4-year degree or equivalent experience.

• Demonstrable understanding of the life insurance (or reinsurance) industry.
• Broad knowledge of the activities and processes involved in operating a global (re) insurance company, with deep knowledge of functional area (Actuarial/Finance/Operations).

You can be who you are.

We are committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion that embraces the authenticity of all employees, partners and communities. We support all employees to thrive and achieve their fullest potential.

The base pay range noted represents the company’s good faith minimum and maximum range for this role at the time of posting. The actual compensation offered to a candidate will be…