Director, Infrastructure Architecture

About KLDiscovery

KLDiscovery is a global eDiscovery and legal technology provider serving large

law firms, corporate legal departments, and government agencies. We build and

operate the products and services that legal teams rely on to manage, process,

and review case data at scale. With operations across multiple countries and a

client base that includes AmLaw 200 firms, we handle some of the largest and

most complex matters in the industry.

About the role

KLDiscovery is hiring a Director of Infrastructure Architecture to set and own

the technical architecture across the platforms that host client matters and

data — including our Nebula and Relativity environments — and the cloud,

storage, network, and security foundations that support them. This is a net-new

leadership role created to bring deliberate, consistent architectural direction

to a portfolio of client-platform initiatives — Relativity and Nebula hosting

expansion, multi-region client data residency, tenant isolation, customer

onboarding at scale, and the disaster-recovery and high-availability

architecture behind them — that today are progressing without unified oversight.

The Director will translate business priorities into a coherent target-state

architecture, establish the standards and review practices that keep large

programs aligned, and lead a team through complex, cross-domain change.

Working closely with infrastructure, security, and engineering leaders, the

Director will be the senior technical authority for decisions that span

multi-tenant client-hosting architecture, client data residency and sovereignty,

hosting region strategy, performance for review and processing workloads, and

storage tiering for client matters. The right person is equally comfortable

shaping multi-year strategy and rolling up their sleeves to guide an active

migration.

We offer competitive total compensation that includes base pay, bonus potential,

inclusive benefits, wellness programs, and perks. We use market and industry

data to inform pay decisions while considering geography and labor markets,

individual experience, and business needs. Individual compensation will vary,

although a reasonable estimate of the current annualized base pay range for this

position is $150,000 to $200,000.

Job location: Remote (but candidate must be based in the United States)

What you will do

• Define and own the architecture vision, standards, and roadmap for

KLDiscovery's client-hosting platforms — including Nebula and Relativity

environments — and the cloud, network, storage, and identity foundations that

support them.

• Lead architecture for major client-platform programs, including Nebula and

Relativity hosting modernization, client data migrations at scale,

multi-region expansion, and storage architecture for client review and

processing workloads.

• Own cloud and network architecture strategy for client-facing platforms,

including latency and throughput for review applications, ingress and egress

for large client data sets, region selection to meet data residency

commitments, and the trade-offs between client-hosted and KLD-hosted matters.

• Provide architectural oversight and review gates for cross-functional

programs so that major initiatives are designed consistently rather than

reactively.

• Partner with the security organization on tenant isolation, client data

protection, audit and compliance posture (SOC 2, ISO 27001, and

client-specific security requirements), and the DR and business-continuity

commitments KLDiscovery makes to clients under contractual SLAs.

• Lead, mentor, and develop team, setting technical direction and raising the

bar on design quality.

• Advise senior IT, Product, Client Services, and Sales and Solutions

Engineering leaders on technology investments, build-versus-buy decisions,

and the long-term implications of architecture choices — including what

KLDiscovery can credibly sell and commit to clients.

• Ten or more years in IT infrastructure, cloud, or enterprise architecture

roles, including several years setting architecture direction for

multi-tenant client-hosting environments at scale on Microsoft Azure.

• Deep expertise in infrastructure and storage architecture: enterprise storage

platforms and migrations, virtualization (VMware/Hyper-V), data center

design, and network architecture.

• Strong command of cloud and network strategy, including hybrid-cloud design,

internet egress and edge/CDN architecture, and the cost and performance

trade-offs across hosting models.

• Demonstrated ability to lead architecture across concurrent, cross-functional

programs and to establish standards and review practices that scale.

• Experience leading or mentoring technical teams and influencing senior

stakeholders without relying on direct authority.

• Demonstrated experience architecting disaster-recovery and

business-continuity solutions to meet contractual client SLA commitments for

a hosted or SaaS platform.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex

technical trade-offs into clear business terms.

• Familiarity with security platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel.
• Experience modernizing ITSM/ticketing platforms or other enterprise IT

tooling.

• Relevant architecture certifications (for example TOGAF, or Microsoft/cloud

architecture credentials).

What you bring

• Ten or more years in IT infrastructure, cloud, or enterprise architecture

roles, including several years setting architecture direction for

multi-tenant client-hosting environments at scale on Microsoft Azure.

• Deep expertise in infrastructure and storage architecture: enterprise storage

platforms and migrations, virtualization (VMware/Hyper-V), data center

design, and network architecture.

• Strong command of cloud and network strategy, including hybrid-cloud design,

internet egress and edge/CDN architecture, and the cost and performance

trade-offs across hosting models.

• Demonstrated ability to lead architecture across concurrent, cross-functional

programs and to establish standards and review practices that scale.

• Experience leading or mentoring technical teams and influencing senior

stakeholders without relying on direct authority.

• Demonstrated experience architecting disaster-recovery and

business-continuity solutions to meet contractual client SLA commitments for

a hosted or SaaS platform.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex

technical trade-offs into clear business terms.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with security platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel.
• Experience modernizing ITSM/ticketing platforms or other enterprise IT

tooling.

• Relevant architecture certifications (for example TOGAF, or Microsoft/cloud

architecture credentials).