Job Overview:

The Hosting Architect will lead Fortrea’s enterprise transition from on premises datacenters to Hyperscaler, delivering a modern, resilient, and automated hosting platform that accelerates application delivery and business innovation. This role owns the target state Azure and hybrid hosting architecture, governs large scale cloud migration, and modernizes operations through automation, Infrastructure as Code, and AI driven operations. The objective is to increase speed to market, reduce operational friction, improve resiliency, and lower total cost of ownership. This is a hands-on senior architecture role with accountability for measurable business and operational outcomes, operating in a regulated enterprise environment.

Summary of Responsibilities:

Cloud Migration & Hybrid Architecture

• Define and own Fortrea’s target‑state Cloud hosting architecture aligned to business and technology strategy.
• Design and govern hybrid architectures during phased migration from on‑premises to Cloud.
• Lead workload migration strategies (rehost, re‑platform, refactor, retire) to balance speed, risk, and value.
• Act as the architectural authority for hosting and Cloud migration decisions.

Cloud Platform & Cloud‑Native Enablement

• Architect Cloud platforms including landing zones, identity, networking, security, HA, and DR.
• Establish standardised Cloud reference architectures and blueprints to accelerate application onboarding.
• Enable self‑service, repeatable platforms that reduce delivery lead time for application and product teams.
• Drive adoption of cloud‑native services to simplify operations and improve scalability and cost efficiency.

Automation, IaC & AI‑Led Operations

• Implement an automation‑first operating model across hybrid and Cloud environments.
• Build and govern Infrastructure‑as‑Code using Terraform, ARM/Bicep, PowerShell, Python, or Ansible.
• Introduce AIOps and intelligent automation for predictive monitoring, self‑healing, and faster incident resolution.
• Reduce environment provisioning time, manual effort, and operational cost through standardisation and automation.

Operational Excellence, Resilience & Governance

• Embed resiliency, observability, and reliability engineering into all hosting designs.