Infrastructure Manager

About the role

The IT Infrastructure Manager oversees the design, implementation, maintenance, and security of the district's network, servers, cloud environments, and communication systems. This role ensures reliable connectivity across all school campuses, administrative buildings, and digital learning platforms. The manager leads a technical team to provide a secure, robust infrastructure that supports 21st-century learning and daily district operations.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Infrastructure Team: Lead, mentor, and evaluate a team of systems/network administrators.
• Manage the infrastructure budget, vendor relationships, and hardware lifecycle.
• Oversee, evaluate & support a Wide Area Network.
• Act as the Tier 3 escalation point for complex technical issues.
• Act as team lead on cross-function technology or district wide projects and initiatives.
• Network: Manage and configure networking, routing, switching and wireless.
• Optimize network for high availability, density and real-time application protocols.
• Virtualization: Administer the VM environment, hypervisors, SAN storage and management environment.
• Business Continuity: Oversee backup solutions (e.g., Veeam) and disaster recovery strategy to minimize downtime and ensure continuity.
• Performance & Troubleshooting: Monitor network usage, diagnose system failures, and execute proactive performance upgrades.
• Cybersecurity Leadership: Firewall Management: Act as the primary admin for Firewalls, managing SD-WAN, VPN, and UTM profiles (Web Filtering, IPS, Antivirus) etc.
• Security Frameworks: Develop and enforce a cybersecurity program based on NIST or CIS Controls.
• Incident Response (IR): Lead the strategy & response to security threats, perform vulnerability scans, and manage remediation efforts.
• Compliance: Ensure the environment meets regulatory standards (e.g., FERPA, HIPAA, or SOC2).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Education Technology, or a related field (equivalent experience considered).
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in infrastructure administration, with at least 2 years in a supervisory or team-lead role.
• Proven experience working within a K-12 educational setting or public sector environment is highly preferred.

Benefits

• Paid vacation, personal, and sick leave.
• 12 paid holidays each year.
• Full-time benefits including low-cost medical, dental, vision, prescription drug, and legal insurance plans.
• Part-time voluntary benefits including low-cost vision and legal insurance.
• Wellness rewards program.
• Health benefits include added networks that give employees access to many medical services at ZERO COST, free virtual healthcare services that offer access to doctors and licensed therapists 24/7, free diabetes care and heart health prevention programs, provider choice with the largest PPO network available.
• 403(b) retirement investment account offerings to help you save for the future with employer matching offered under many collective bargaining agreements.
• Pension plan that provides income when you retire.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for Work/life Support.
• Virtual Fitness Services.
• Training, classes, and professional development.
• Federal Public Loan Service Forgiveness Program.

Pay

$120,000 - $130,000 depending on experience

Schedule

This position is a 261 day per year position.