Senior IT Architect

About the Company

Cubic Transportation Systems is part of Cubic Corporation, an organization focused on building technology that improves everyday travel and supports defense operations. The company works on solutions that help make journeys simpler and more efficient while also contributing to mission success and safety. Its portfolio includes Cubic Transportation Systems and Cubic Defense.

Role Overview

The Senior IT Architect serves as a specialist in planning and delivering IT infrastructure solutions. The position centers on evaluating infrastructure designs from an operational standpoint for transport mobility systems, with attention to servers, storage, networking, virtualization, monitoring tools, PCI compliance, and disaster recovery. The role also contributes to architecture leadership, engineering guidance, and system integration, while supporting bids, tenders, and variation work through detailed designs and costings for build, operations, and maintenance. This is an autonomous role that works closely with both technical and business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and assess complete infrastructure solutions covering compute, storage, networks, and data protection for critical business systems.
• Translate business and operational needs into system requirements, architecture decisions, and integration approaches.
• Shape system-level architecture, including how functions are divided across the solution.
• Improve cloud and infrastructure platforms with a strong focus on financial efficiency and cost control.
• Maintain strong levels of availability, resilience, and scalability across environments.
• Lead backup, recovery, and disaster recovery planning and implementation.
• Work with Engineering, DevOps, and other teams to design and roll out new solutions.
• Partner with Release and Change Management to ensure deployments are carefully planned, documented, and backed by rollback options.
• Take part in change review and approval activities in line with internal policies.
• Coach and support engineers and operational teams through technical leadership and mentoring.
• Coordinate with internal departments and external partners to keep delivery aligned.
• Build trusted client relationships and provide reliable technical advice.
• Support bids, tenders, and variation submissions with solution design and cost estimation.
• Contribute to ongoing improvement across infrastructure and operations.
• Follow quality, safety, environmental, security, and HR procedures, and carry out other assigned duties as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, IT, or a closely related field.
• 8 to 10 years of experience in IT infrastructure, including work in high-performance cloud environments.
• Deep hands-on experience with infrastructure architecture across servers, storage, networks, and applications.
• Advanced capability in Azure and AWS, including automation and cloud-native services.
• Proven ability to prepare detailed infrastructure designs and cost estimates for customer solutions.
• Strong understanding of high availability, redundancy, and disaster recovery practices.
• Experience with advanced network designs such as load balancers, firewalls, and virtual networks.
• Working knowledge of call center platforms such as ACD/PBX, CTI, and IVR.
• Strong ability to tune systems and improve performance.
• Experience implementing monitoring and alerting solutions.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and decision-making skills.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing abilities.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships at all organizational levels.
• Self-directed, adaptable, detail-focused, and able to work effectively in both independent and team settings.
• Comfortable in fast-moving matrix environments and able to handle pressure and deadlines.
• Structured, organized, proactive, and committed to continuous improvement.

Additional Information

The employer notes that the responsibilities and requirements listed here are not exhaustive and may evolve over time based on business needs. The role is for an employee worker type. The company also states that it welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and does not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics under applicable law.