Azure/Linux Infrastructure Administrator - Midwest

Core Responsibilities

• Lead and manage infrastructure engineering personnel, including cloud engineering and field/customer-facing engineering resources
• Provide technical leadership, direction, prioritization, coaching, and performance management for direct reports
• Serve as the technical liaison between MICRO and parent company IT teams for compliance, planning, governance, and enterprise initiatives
• Support product and engineering teams across Accu-Trac, ProControl, and Stocker1 with infrastructure planning and technical strategy
• Coordinate infrastructure support for product deployments, customer implementations, upgrades, and business-critical operational initiatives
• Contribute to business continuity, disaster recovery, backup, and resiliency planning
• Research and recommend innovative and scalable infrastructure solutions that improve operational efficiency and long-term supportability

Infrastructure Engineering & Technical Oversight

• Provide leadership and architectural oversight for Linux and Windows infrastructure environments, with strong emphasis on Linux and Ubuntu platforms
• Spearhead initiatives to improve system stability, security posture, lifecycle management, and supported-version compliance
• Oversee Azure infrastructure strategy, performance, availability, monitoring, and operational readiness
• Coverage system, server, storage, and network engineering activities across both cloud and on-premise environments
• Guide server provisioning, rebuilds, upgrades, hardware lifecycle planning, and infrastructure standards
• Establish and maintain infrastructure standards, installation procedures, and operational documentation
• Support networking and connectivity initiatives required for customer deployments and internal systems
• Provide technical leadership for server, hardware, virtualization, and cloud solution decisions

Operations & Support Oversight

• Oversee daily monitoring of infrastructure health, availability, backup integrity, system logs, and scheduled operational jobs
• Manage Tier III escalation support and complex incident resolution across infrastructure and application environments
• Coordinate recovery efforts for hardware, software, and infrastructure failures
• Coordinate archival, retention, purge, and backup recovery processes

Maintenance, Security & Performance

• Manage infrastructure patching strategy and ensure OS, security, and platform upgrades are completed on schedule
• Participate in security governance, risk review, and infrastructure compliance meetings
• Oversee performance reporting, capacity planning, and resource optimization
• Lead infrastructure tuning initiatives involving CPU, memory, storage, and cloud resource utilization
• Coverage lifecycle management of infrastructure software, operating systems, and supporting platforms
• Coverage Azure data center, monitoring, alerting, and environmental controls

Experience & Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, or related technical field or Equivalent combination of education and 4 years of progressive technical experience Prior leadership or management experience preferred Strong hands-on experience with Linux systems administration, preferably Ubuntu Working knowledge of Windows Server environments Experience with Azure cloud infrastructure and operational support Strong understanding of networking concepts, best practices, and infrastructure troubleshooting Experience with hardware, server lifecycle management, and enterprise support environments Experience supporting production software environments preferred