Infrastructure Architect

At BBH, Partnership is more than a form of ownership—it’s our approach to business and relationships.  We know that supporting your professional and personal goals is the best way to help our clients and advance our business. We take that responsibility seriously. With a 200-year legacy and a shared passion for what’s next, this is the right place to build a fulfilling career.

We are seeking an Infrastructure Architect to lead the design and governance of end-to-end system resiliency across the firms Infrastructure. This role ensures that our infrastructure is robust, fault-tolerant, and capable of rapid recovery from disruptions, including cyber incidents and operational failures. The ideal candidate has a deep technical background in compute, storage, and networking and can translate resiliency requirements into actionable architecture and standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the enterprise resiliency architecture for on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
• Define resiliency strategies for compute, storage, and network layers, including redundancy, failover, and disaster recovery.
• Establish reference architectures, design patterns, and standards for high availability and fault tolerance.
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, and Business Continuity teams to integrate cyber-resiliency principles into infrastructure design.
• Oversee resiliency testing programs, including failover drills, backup validation, and recovery exercises.
• Assist with evaluation, recommendation and recovery features for technologies and tools for backup, replication, and automated recovery.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to architects and engineers across infrastructure domains.
• Ensure compliance with industry frameworks (e.g., NIST SP 800-160, ISO 22301, CIS Benchmarks).

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years in infrastructure architecture or engineering roles, with strong expertise in compute, storage, and networking.
• Proven experience designing high-availability and disaster recovery solutions for enterprise environments.
• Deep knowledge of:
  • Servers/Virtualization: VMware, Hyper-V, Linux/Windows OS, zOS
  • Storage: SAN, NAS, object storage, replication, snapshots, backups and backup recovery
  • Networking: Routing, switching, firewalls, load balancing
• Familiarity with backup and recovery solutions
• Understanding of cyber-resiliency concepts and integration with security controls.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in regulated industries (e.g., financial services, healthcare).
• Certifications: TOGAF, CISSP, AWS/Azure/GCP Architect, VMware VCAP/VCDX.
• Knowledge of automation and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Familiarity with NIST CSF, ISO 27001, ISO 22301, and CIS Controls.

Success Metrics

• Achieve defined RTO/RPO targets for critical systems.
• Demonstrate tested recovery capabilities for Tier 0/1 infrastructure.
• Maintain compliance with resiliency and security standards.
• Reduce mean time to recover (MTTR) through automation and orchestration.

Salary Range

NJ: $170,000 to $230,000 base salary + annual bonus target

MA: $170,000 - $230,000 base salary + annual bonus target

BBH and its affiliates' compensation program includes base salary, discretionary bonuses, and profit-sharing. The anticipated base salary range(s) shown above are only for the indicated location(s) and may differ in other locations due to cost of living and labor considerations. Base salaries may vary based on factors such as skill, experience and qualification for the role. BBH's total rewards package recognizes your contributions with more than just a paycheck—providing you with benefits that enhance your experience at BBH from long-term savings, healthcare, and income protection to professional development opportunities and time off, our programs support your overall well-being. 

We value diverse experiences. We value diverse experiences and transferrable skillsets. If your career hasn’t followed a traditional path, includes alternative experiences, or doesn’t meet every qualification or skill listed in the job description, please do go ahead and apply.

About BBH:

Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is a premier global financial services firm, known for premium service, specialist expertise, technology solutions and partnership approach to client management. Across Investor Services and Capital Partners, we work with an enviable roster of sophisticated clients who make BBH their first call when they are tackling their hardest challenges. Delivering for our clients and each other energizes us.

We believe that how we do our work is just as important as what we do. We are relentless problem solvers who know our best ideas come from collective debate and development—so we are never possessive about our ideas. Every day we come together as a diverse community of smart and caring people to deliver exceptional service and expert advice—creating success that lasts. No matter where you sit in the organization, everyone is empowered to contribute their ideas. BBHers can pick up the phone and call any colleague, and they are happy to help. Expanding your impact beyond your daily role is part of how we operate as trusted partners to one another. 

We believe stability is a competitive advantage, but being stable means having the knowledge, skill, and discipline to evolve, often—pushing the boundaries of innovation.  As a private partnership, every investment we make is in the relationships, technologies, products and development we believe are in the long-term interests of our clients and our people. Our long-tenured leaders are experts in their areas and are actively involved in the day-to day business, taking the time to provide guidance and mentoring to build the next generation of BBHers. Because we know, our success begins with yours.

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