We are seeking an experienced IT Infrastructure Architect to design, document, govern, and evolve our on-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure platforms. This role ensures that DPD Baltics infrastructure solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective, aligned with business and technology strategy. The Infrastructure Architect works closely with enterprise architects, security, operations, and application teams to translate business requirements into robust infrastructure architectures.

Key Responsibilities:

Define, document and enforce infrastructure standards, patterns, best practices and reference architectures

Design, document and maintain infrastructure architectures (on-prem, cloud, hybrid)

Support IT Infrastructure manager on defining long term IT infrastructure strategy, operational and infrastructure modernization initiatives

Review and approve infrastructure designs and major changes for:

• Compute, storage, and virtualization
• Networking and connectivity
• Cloud platforms (IaaS / PaaS)
• Backup, disaster recovery, and high availability 

Ensure architectures meet security, compliance, resilience and disaster recovery requirements

Collaborate with:

• Enterprise and IT Solution architects
• IT applications team
• Security teams
• Infrastructure operations teams

Review and approve infrastructure designs and major changes

Support cloud migration, modernization, and automation initiatives

Provide architectural and technical leadership during major infrastructure changes, upgrades, and transformations

Evaluate new technologies and vendors; provide recommendations and roadmaps

Provide technical guidance and mentorship to IT teams

Required Skills and Experience:

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, IT, or related field

5+ years in IT infrastructure roles, with 3+ years in an architecture or design capacity

Strong hands-on experience with:

• Data center technologies (servers, storage, virtualization)
• Enterprise networking (LAN/WAN, firewalls, load balancers)

Experience with at least one major cloud provider (e.g., Azure, GCP, AWS)

Experience with container technologies (e.g., Docker) and container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes)

Familiarity with network architectures using Fortinet platform

Ability to produce architecture diagrams, design documents, standards and reference models

Familiarity with architecture frameworks (TOGAF, ITIL, or similar), and cybersecurity best practices

Strong leadership, communication, and project management skills

Strong problem-solving and analytical skills 

Nice to have (competitive advantages):

Candidates with IT Solution Architecture experience will be considered a strong advantage, including: 

Ability to design end-to-end IT solutions spanning:

• Infrastructure, applications, and integration layers
• Cloud and on-premises components

Experience collaborating with stakeholders, business and technical product owners

Experience in translating business and non-functional requirements into IT solution designs

Experience and understanding of:

• IT solution architecture design principles, concepts, and patterns such as microservices, APIs, middleware
• File-based (e.g., FTP/SFTP) and API-based (e.g., REST and SOAP web services, message queues) applications/services integration mechanisms
• Integration approaches for applications and services, including REST and SOAP APIs, message-based integrations, and file-based exchanges over FTP/SFTP

IT solution design reviews

We offer:

• Gain international work experience and learn from the best at Geopost
• Flexible work environment and comprehensive benefits package
• Annual bonus
• Additional benefits like a monthly Stebby allowance, additional mental health benefits, 100% sickness leave payment for the first 3 days, additional holiday days, and more.
• A personal mentor who will support you
• Adaptation and training plan