Infrastructure Lead
MegaCorp Logistics · Wilmington, NC · Yesterday
Information TechnologyFull-time
About the role
MegaCorp Logistics, a fast-growing third-party logistics company ranked as a top 30 brokerage and in the top 100 of all Logistics Companies in the US, is seeking a highly creative and motivated Infrastructure Lead. This role is responsible for leading the design, maintenance, performance, security, and reliability of MegaCorp’s IT infrastructure, ensuring systems operate efficiently while driving operational efficiency, cloud optimization, infrastructure resiliency, and cost-effective technology solutions to support business needs.
Responsibilities
- Ensure infrastructure across networks, servers, databases, cloud platforms, and enterprise applications is standardized, secure, highly available, and proactively monitored to protect uptime and business continuity.
- Deliver IT infrastructure built, maintained, and optimized using current technology and best practices to support long-term scalability and reliability.
- Build an engaged, skilled infrastructure team equipped to perform at a high level through consistent leadership, coaching, and support.
- Prioritize and deliver infrastructure projects, support requests, and technology improvement initiatives aligned with business needs, risk tolerance, and technology standards—on time, with the highest-impact work addressed first.
- Drive continuous improvement in infrastructure performance, scalability, security, and reliability through ongoing assessment and recommendations.
- Ensure corporate network, server, desktop, mobile, phone, and video conferencing resources reliably support the workforce.
- Proactively manage infrastructure capacity, performance, and engineering project planning to prevent bottlenecks and support business growth.
- Own cloud financial operations (FinOps) to keep Azure spend transparent, controlled, and continuously optimized, including governance standards for lifecycle management, tagging, rightsizing, reserved instances, storage optimization, and cost allocation—without compromising performance, security, scalability, or business continuity. Report cost trends to IT leadership.
- Partner with application development teams to ensure internally developed applications are supported by resilient, highly available cloud infrastructure that meets enterprise standards for disaster recovery, backup, recovery, monitoring, and security.
- Resolve infrastructure and end-user technology issues quickly, while identifying recurring issues, risks, and process gaps early and addressing them with sustainable, long-term solutions.
- Keep infrastructure standards, documentation, procedures, and support models current, consistent, and continuously improved.
- Deliver infrastructure solutions that support business operations through strong partnership with IT leadership, stakeholders, vendors, and internal teams.
- Maintain the security and confidentiality of company systems, infrastructure resources, user information, operational data, inter-application data transfers, and proprietary technology information.
- Implement infrastructure changes with minimal operational risk through disciplined change management, documentation, testing, and approval processes.
- Adapt to evolving business needs by taking on additional duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Associate degree or higher in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Network Administration, Cybersecurity, or related field preferred. Equivalent applied infrastructure, systems, network, or technology experience may be considered.
- Five (5) or more years of experience in IT infrastructure, systems administration, network administration, IT support, or related technology work.
- Previous leadership, supervisory, team lead, project coordination, or infrastructure management experience.
- Experience implementing FinOps methodologies, Azure cost governance, cloud monitoring, budgeting, and spend optimization preferred.
- Experience designing highly available cloud infrastructure supporting modern application development and DevOps practices preferred.
- Experience supporting desktop systems, mobile devices, phone systems, video conferencing, network services, servers, and infrastructure performance.
- Strong organizational, documentation, analytical, customer service, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, support team execution, make sound decisions, and work effectively under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
Skills
- Infrastructure leadership and operational excellence
- Cloud infrastructure, architecture, and resiliency
- Azure governance and FinOps management
- Cost optimization and capacity planning
- Infrastructure automation and continuous improvement
- Cross-functional technical leadership
- Security awareness and risk management
- Technical troubleshooting and problem-solving
- Documentation, communication, and team development
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life and disability insurance
- On-site physician
- 401(K) matching
- Birthday celebrations
- Health and wellness initiative including gym membership and physical therapy services
- Annual parties
- Paid time off and flexible holidays
- Company-sponsored outings
Physical & Cognitive Requirements
The following requirements are representative of those needed to perform essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made.
Physical Requirements
- Ability to see, hear, and communicate clearly
- Ability to distinguish color indicators used in systems, devices, or technology equipment
- Ability to use hands and fingers for computer, phone, equipment-related, and clerical tasks
- Ability to operate a computer, telephone, mobile device, and standard office equipment
- Ability to work at a computer workstation for extended periods
- Ability to lift, carry, or move technology equipment as business needs require
- Ability to travel locally or between company locations as business needs require
Cognitive Requirements
- Reading comprehension
- Written and verbal communication
- Analytical thinking
- Problem-solving
- Judgment and decision-making
- Attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple priorities
- Clerical accuracy and technical documentation review
- Basic math skills
- Ability to evaluate infrastructure performance, security risks, system requirements, technical issues, and business impact
- Ability to learn, retain, and apply company policies, IT procedures, security standards, infrastructure requirements, and technology processes
Work Environment
- Office-based technology environment with occasional work in server rooms, network areas, and other infrastructure support spaces
- Works independently and collaboratively with IT team members, business stakeholders, vendors, leadership, and end users
- Frequent verbal, electronic, phone, virtual, and face-to-face communication
- Regular use of computers, infrastructure systems, network resources, server environments, mobile device platforms, ITSM tools, communication systems, and standard office equipment
- Fast-paced IT environment requires confidentiality, responsiveness, organization, technical accuracy, sound judgment, adaptability, and effective leadership