Remote Volunteer IT Infrastructure Architect — iLevelUP

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