Nonprofit
Published 3 months ago
Remote Volunteer IT Infrastructure Architect — iLevelUP
Remote, Volunteer must be in United States
Details
Time Commitment:
Flexible
Commitment Details:
Approximately 4–8 hours per month for at least three months, plus required onboarding and confidentiality commitments.
Recurrence:
Recurring
Volunteers Needed:
2
Cause Areas:
Children & Youth, Economic Development, Education, Financial Literacy & Personal Finance, Job & Workplace
Benefits:
Training Provided
Participation Requirements:
Background Check, Attend Orientation
Age Requirement:
21+
Other Requirements:
Successful screening plus confidentiality, privacy, architecture governance, least privilege, vendor review, change control, recovery, incident response, and production-access training.
Description
Help iLevelUP design a secure, reliable, and cost-conscious technology foundation for an educational platform serving underserved youth and young people.
The volunteer IT Infrastructure Architect will assess approved systems and define practical target-state architecture, standards, and migration plans.
Responsibilities:
- Map current cloud, network, identity, endpoint, domain, storage, backup, monitoring, and SaaS dependencies
- Document trust boundaries, data flows, availability needs, ownership, risks, and technical debt
- Recommend secure, scalable, maintainable infrastructure patterns within approved budgets
- Define standards for environments, access, secrets, logging, backup, recovery, patching, and lifecycle management
- Evaluate proposed vendors and services for security, privacy, accessibility, reliability, cost, and exit risk
- Create architecture decisions, diagrams, migration phases, rollback options, and operational handoffs
- Coordinate with systems, DevOps, security, application, data, and privacy owners
- Avoid unnecessary complexity and protect participant information by design
- Never purchase services or change production infrastructure, DNS, access, or billing without approval
Qualifications:
- Senior experience in cloud or enterprise infrastructure architecture, systems engineering, networking, identity, or platform operations
- Strong security, reliability, backup, recovery, cost, governance, and documentation skills
- Ability to explain tradeoffs clearly to technical and nontechnical collaborators
- Experience with privacy-sensitive or youth-serving systems is helpful
- At least 21 years old and willing to complete screening and confidentiality requirements
This is a remote, project-based or recurring role. Expect approximately 4–8 hours per month.
Questions: volunteers@ilevelup.app
iLevelUP
107 Spring Street, 2nd Floor
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 414-8043
Location
Volunteer must be in United States
Associated Location
Seattle, WA, USA
