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We are ERock!

Enchanted Rock is a leader and innovator of Electrical Resiliency-As-A-Service. Our advanced dual-purpose microgrids protect companies, critical infrastructure, and communities from unexpected power outages, ensuring business continuity and civic durability.

Enchanted Rock’s dual-purpose microgrids use natural gas and renewable natural gas (RNG) to drive the nation’s most dependable microgrids — all while producing significantly lower to zero carbon emissions than traditional diesel backup generators. Enchanted Rock solutions provide 24/7/365 monitoring, optimization, and forecasts to enable worry-free, reliable power for businesses. The Enchanted Rock solution brings together patented technologies, advanced dual-purpose microgrid designs and integrated end-to-end services. The Power is On and we keep it on.

What you’ll do…

The Principal Architect - Network & Infrastructure, is a senior enterprise IT architect responsible for defining, designing, governing, and evolving the organization’s next-generation network and infrastructure architecture across corporate, data center, and cloud environments. This role will drive the future-state architectural direction and execution of technology initiatives across IT/OT environments while ensuring operational excellence, cybersecurity resilience, and regulatory compliance in alignment with the company’s strategic objectives.

In addition to defining and designing future-state architectures, this role owns the long-term health, maintainability, and evolution of enterprise network and infrastructure platforms. The Principal Architect is accountable for ensuring architectures are not only well-designed, but operationally sustainable, supportable, and continuously improved throughout their lifecycle.

Reporting to the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and based at our Houston, TX headquarters, this role leads a small team of senior network and infrastructure engineers to act as a technical mentor rather than a pure people manager. This role requires deep, hands-on architectural expertise, including personally designing, validating, and evolving complex enterprise networks and infrastructure solutions. The Principal Architect - Network & Infrastructure, serves as the highest technical authority for enterprise IT and OT networking and infrastructure, partnering closely with executive leadership, cybersecurity, and IT operations teams.

Enterprise Architecture Strategy

• Define and maintain enterprise network and infrastructure architecture standards, reference architectures, and roadmaps.
• Translate business and application requirements into scalable, resilient, and secure future-state infrastructure designs.
• Lead architectural decisions across corporate networks, data centers, and cloud platforms.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and vendors, making recommendations aligned to long-term enterprise IT/OT strategy.
• Define architectural KPIs related to resilience, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.

Network Architecture

• Directly architect, lead and maintain enterprise LAN, WAN, and WLAN designs supporting large-scale distributed environments.
• Design and maintain high-availability, fault-tolerant network architectures across geographically distributed sites.
• Define routing, switching, segmentation, QoS, and traffic engineering standards.
• Lead next-generation data center networking architectures.
• Drive modern network initiatives including SD-WAN, SASE, cloud-integrated connectivity, and network automation-enabled designs.
• Architect secure remote access and enterprise connectivity solutions.

Infrastructure and Platform Architecture

• Architect and maintain enterprise compute, storage, virtualization, and platform infrastructure.
• Lead future-state architecture for hybrid and multi-cloud environments (Azure and AWS), including network integration and connectivity models.
• Drive modernization of legacy infrastructure toward cloud-aligned models.
• Establish standards for backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and infrastructure resilience.
• Ensure infrastructure platforms meet performance, scalability, lifecycle, and cost-efficiency objectives.

Compliance and Security

• Partner with cybersecurity leadership to develop and enforce technology policies and frameworks that will ensure compliance with NERC CIP and other regulatory standards.
• Support ongoing security assessments and audits by providing infrastructure and operational expertise to identify and mitigate risk.
• Maintain strong security posture across IT/OT systems while ensuring operational continuity and performance.

Architecture Governance & Technical Leadership

• Serve as the final architectural authority for enterprise IT and OT network and infrastructure designs.
• Actively design and validate complex or high-risk solutions, providing hands-on architectural guidance to engineering teams.
• Establish and enforce architecture governance, documentation standards, and design review processes.
• Own and maintain enterprise architecture artifacts, including reference architectures, standards, and technical debt remediation plans.
• Mentor senior engineers and other team members, elevating architectural maturity across the organization.
• Build and develop a high-performing, cross-functional IT and OT team through mentorship, training, and career development.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative environment that promotes teamwork, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.
• Set clear performance objectives, conducting regular reviews, and supporting professional growth and technical excellence.

Stakeholder & Vendor Engagement

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to executive leadership on infrastructure investments, tradeoffs, and architectural risk.
• Collaborate with enterprise engineers, cloud teams, cybersecurity, and IT operations to deliver cohesive solutions.
• Lead vendor evaluations, RFPs, and technical due diligence for network and infrastructure technologies.
• Guide managed service providers and systems integrators to ensure architectural alignment.

Requirements

Required Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in enterprise network and infrastructure engineering or architecture roles.
• 3+ years in a senior or Principal Architect role influencing enterprise-wide technology decisions.
• Advanced certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, and/or cloud architecture certifications, or equivalent experience.
• Bring experience with enterprise networking technologies, including SD-WAN, network segmentation, and IT and OT network security.
• Hands-on architectural experience with enterprise virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware vSphere / ESXi, vCenter) in large-scale or mission-critical environments.
• Demonstrated ability to design enterprise-scale network and infrastructure architectures.
• Deep expertise in enterprise networking, data center infrastructure and operations, and cloud platforms.
• Proven experience serving as the primary technical architect for major IT/OT infrastructure or network transformation initiatives.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Physical requirements and working conditions: Must possess mobility to work in a standard office setting and to use standard office equipment, including a computer, stamina to maintain attention to detail despite interruptions, strength to lift and carry 20 pounds, vision to read printed materials and a computer screen, and hearing and speech to communicate in person and over the telephone.

Preferred Skills:

• Have familiarity collaborating with OT or industrial teams in organizations where IT and OT coexist.
• Have experience with Industrial Control Systems including SCADA systems, PLCs and DCSs in critical infrastructure environments.
• Have worked in the energy, utilities, or critical infrastructure sectors with understanding of operational requirements and regulatory landscapes around NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC CIP) and North America's bulk electric system.
• Experience in strategic planning, execution, and project management.
• Exceptional mentoring, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong organizational abilities and attention to detail.

Your Rewards!

• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription Drug Insurance
• Company-Paid Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Paid Family Leave
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Wellness Programs and Incentives
• 401(k) Retirement Plan & Company Match
• Paid Time Off – Sick & Vacation Time
• Paid Holidays
• Hybrid Work Schedule. 3-4 days/week in Houston Office!
• Cool Open-Office Concept

Do you have what it takes to join the Enchanted Rock team? Send us your resume today. Be yourself and keep it useful, funny, and cool!

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Enchanted Rock is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

At Enchanted Rock, we embrace diversity, including all the unique characteristics that make us human: race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, and education — to name a few. We understand and recognize that diverse backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our teams and our business. The foundation of our diversity efforts is closely tied to our core values specifically our value of “The Team” which includes “Mutual Respect, Openness, and Honesty.”