Pacific Life · 1 month ago
Sr Infrastructure Architect II
Charlotte - NC
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$135K/yr - $165K/yr
8+ years expPacific Life is investing in bright, agile, and diverse talent to contribute to our mission of innovating our business and creating a superior customer experience. The Senior Infrastructure Architect II will play a key role in defining and shaping the global PL infrastructure architecture, integrating various technical domains and ensuring compliance with standards.
FinanceFinancial ServicesInsurance
Responsibilities
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 to 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
Qualification
Required
8+ years of related experience
4-year degree or equivalent experience
Preferred
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)
Benefits
Medical, Dental, Vision, and Wellbeing Reimbursement Account that can be used on yourself or your eligible dependents
Generous paid time off options including: Paid Time Off, Holiday Schedules, and Financial Planning Time Off
Paid Parental Leave as well as an Adoption Assistance Program
Competitive 401k savings plan with company match and an additional contribution regardless of participation
Company
Pacific Life
Pacific Life Insurance is an insurance company that provides life insurance products, annuities, and mutual funds.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Pacific Life has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (14)
2024 (9)
2023 (16)
2022 (19)
2021 (14)
2020 (17)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.44B2025-09-03Debt Financing· $750M
2025-06-18Debt Financing· $688.57M
Leadership Team
Howard Hirakawa
Senior Vice President and Fund Advisor Operations
Joe Krum
Senior Vice President & Managing Director, Global Institutional Investment Group
Recent News
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