Senior Systems Architect (m/f/d)

About the Position

We're looking for a Senior Systems Architect (m/f/d) to join our team in Germany in a hybrid working mode. You will advise enterprise and regulated-industry customers on modernizing and transforming their cloud, data center, virtualization, and infrastructure platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead current-state assessments, discovery workshops, target-state architecture definition, and facilitate sessions with engineering teams, infrastructure leaders, and executive audiences.
• Translate business, security, compliance, and resilience requirements into scalable technical solutions, ensuring architectural governance aligned to enterprise standards and regulatory expectations.
• Design Microsoft Azure landing zones, governance models, connectivity patterns, and operational guardrails.
• Architect hybrid cloud solutions integrating Azure with on-premises infrastructure, identity platforms, and security controls.
• Design SDDC architectures across compute, storage, network virtualization, backup, DR, and management domains.
• Govern VMware-based private cloud architectures including vSphere, vCenter, ESXi, NSX, vSAN, HCX, SRM, and Aria/vRealize Suite.
• Lead modernization and migration initiatives across Azure, VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, and hybrid environments, producing HLD/LLD documentation, architecture decision records, and migration strategies.
• Provide architectural oversight across deployment, migration, and stabilization phases, acting as senior escalation point for critical platform design and implementation challenges.
• Support migration planning for workloads into Azure, AVS, hybrid cloud, or modernized on-premises environments.
• Support RFP/RFI responses with solution design, architecture inputs, scope framing, effort estimation, and proposal development, while identifying follow-on opportunities in cloud adoption, infrastructure modernization, and operational improvement.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in cloud, infrastructure architecture, virtualization, SDDC, and consulting.
• Proven experience in enterprise transformation and modernization programs.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure: landing zones, hub-and-spoke networking, governance, identity, security, and resilience.
• In-depth knowledge of hybrid cloud architecture integrating Azure with on-premises platforms and enterprise identity.
• Proven experience with VMware: vSphere, vCenter, ESXi, NSX, vSAN, HCX, SRM, Aria/vRealize Suite.
• Practical experience with SDDC, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, and hyperconverged infrastructure platforms.
• Expertise in AVS (Azure VMware Solution) and workload mobility.
• Knowledge of enterprise storage, backup, business continuity, and disaster recovery.
• Familiarity with network, security, identity, and governance for enterprise platforms.
• Experience working in regulated, high-availability, and mission-critical environments.
• Consulting experience in financial services, public sector, healthcare, or regulated industries.
• Knowledge of automation and IaC tools (Terraform, Bicep, PowerShell, or Ansible).
• Relevant certifications in Azure and VMware.
• Willingness to travel to client sites.

Nice to Have

• Experience with hybrid and multi-cloud strategies.
• Familiarity with cloud cost governance and FinOps.
• Contribution to thought leadership, whitepapers, or technical assets.
• Public speaking experience at industry events or conferences.

About the Company

EPAM Systems is a global software engineering and product development company. We partner with the world’s leading brands to deliver innovative digital solutions and drive their digital transformation.