Infrastructure Consultant / Infrastructure Program Manager

About the role

The role begins as a contract engagement with the potential to transition into a permanent position. The Infrastructure Consultant will serve as a trusted technical advisor and project leader, partnering closely with IT leadership to assess aging infrastructure, develop strategic recommendations, coordinate third-party vendors and MSPs, and drive critical infrastructure projects through completion.

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments of existing infrastructure, including compute, storage, virtualization, networking, and cloud services.
• Evaluate aging infrastructure and develop recommendations for modernization, replacement, migration, or optimization.
• Help define long-term infrastructure strategy, including on-premises, cloud, and hybrid approaches.
• Lead infrastructure lifecycle initiatives involving servers, storage, virtualization, networking, collaboration platforms, and cloud technologies.
• Manage and coordinate third-party vendors, MSPs, MSSPs, and technology partners.
• Drive project execution and accountability across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Develop business cases, cost analyses, implementation roadmaps, and technology recommendations.
• Partner with IT leadership to prioritize and execute infrastructure investments.
• Review technical proposals and validate recommendations from service providers.
• Identify risks, dependencies, project blockers, and mitigation plans.
• Ensure projects move effectively from planning through deployment and operational transition.
• Maintain documentation, architecture diagrams, and infrastructure roadmaps.
• Potential Project Initiatives:
• VMware platform assessment and future-state virtualization strategy
• Storage and SAN modernization planning
• Infrastructure refresh and hardware lifecycle management
• Hybrid cloud strategy development
• Microsoft 365 and SharePoint optimization initiatives
• Potential Microsoft tenant migration activities
• SharePoint and workflow discovery across business units
• Vendor consolidation and service optimization
• Infrastructure resiliency and disaster recovery improvements

Qualifications

• 7+ years of infrastructure engineering, infrastructure architecture, technical project management, or IT consulting experience.
• Strong experience with enterprise infrastructure environments, including servers, storage, virtualization, and networking.
• Experience with VMware and vCenter administration and architecture.
• Knowledge of enterprise storage platforms, including Dell Unity or similar SAN technologies.
• Experience supporting hybrid cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft 365 technologies, including SharePoint Online.
• Experience managing infrastructure vendors, MSPs, and third-party service providers.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate competing technology solutions and develop strategic recommendations.
• Strong project management and change management experience.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Microsoft GCC or GCC High environments.
• Palo Alto Networks and Prisma Access exposure.
• Experience with tenant-to-tenant Microsoft 365 migrations.
• Infrastructure planning within engineering, manufacturing, government, defense, or regulated environments.
• ITIL, PMP, or related certifications.