Senior IT Manager, Enterprise Infrastructure and Operations (Hybrid, Houston Based)
for section headings. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
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We must not repeat job title as heading. Do not put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings.
We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate etc.
We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content.
Thus sections: About The Role (maybe heading "About the role"), Responsibilities, Requirements (maybe "Minimum Qualifications"), Skills (maybe "Competencies/Skills"), Benefits, Schedule.
We need to extract content.
About The Role: The paragraph after "About The Role" includes several sentences. We'll put that in
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Responsibilities: There's a list under "Key Responsibilities" with subheadings: Infrastructure Leadership and Strategy, Operational Excellence, Cybersecurity & OT Integration, People Leadership. Each has bullet-like sentences. We need to turn duties into
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Responsibilities
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We need to parse responsibilities:
Infrastructure Leadership and Strategy:
- Develop and execute the enterprise infrastructure roadmap to support business growth, manufacturing modernization, acquisitions, cybersecurity initiatives, and cloud transformation.
- Lead infrastructure projects including system installations, upgrades, hardware refreshes, migrations, and technology retirements.
- Drive cloud adoption initiatives, including migrations from on-premises environments to Microsoft Azure and Entra ID.
- Evaluate and recommend on-premises, hosted, outsourced, and cloud-based solutions to improve service delivery, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Manage data center, server, storage, networking, telecommunications, and enterprise operations environments.
Operational Excellence:
- Provide leadership for enterprise infrastructure operations, ensuring high availability and performance of critical business systems.
- Serve as an escalation point for major incidents and lead root cause analysis efforts.
- Partner with technology teams to strengthen disaster recovery, business continuity, capacity planning, change management, and security practices.
- Oversee 24x7 support operations and managed service provider (MSP) relationships.
- Establish and monitor service levels, performance metrics, scorecards, and vendor accountability.
Cybersecurity & OT Integration:
- Lead infrastructure-related cybersecurity initiatives, including vulnerability management, patching, monitoring, and remediation efforts.
- Collaborate with Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) and internal stakeholders to enhance security posture.
- Partner with Operations and Engineering teams to support connectivity between enterprise IT systems and manufacturing/OT environments.
People Leadership:
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of infrastructure professionals, including Server Administrators, Help Desk personnel, and external service providers.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and professional development.
- Conduct performance management, talent development planning, and succession planning activities.
- Define departmental goals and align individual objectives with broader business priorities.
We'll list each as
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Requirements: Minimum Qualifications bullet list.
Extract:
- 8+ years of progressive leadership experience in enterprise infrastructure and operations.
- Proven experience developing and executing infrastructure strategies that support business growth and digital transformation.
- Strong experience managing Managed Service Providers (MSPs), including SLA management, performance reviews, and escalation processes.
- Hands-on leadership experience with:
- Microsoft Windows Server
- Active Directory & Entra ID
- Microsoft Azure
- Intune
- SQL Server
- Oracle
- Hyper-V
- RDS
- SD-WAN
- Server clustering technologies
- Experience leading enterprise migrations from on-premises environments to cloud and hybrid infrastructures.
- Experience implementing and supporting Operational Technology (OT) environments.
- Demonstrated success in managing major outage events and disaster recovery activities.
- Strong knowledge of change management, infrastructure governance, and IT service management best practices.
We need to format as list; nested list for hands-on leadership experience? Could flatten: each technology as separate
- maybe under a parent? But rule: use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Could have nested lists but still
- . We'll keep simple: each bullet as
- . For the hands-on leadership experience, we can make a
- that includes the list in parentheses or as a sentence. Simpler: make a
- "Hands-on leadership experience with Microsoft Windows Server, Active Directory & Entra ID, Microsoft Azure, Intune, SQL Server, Oracle, Hyper-V, RDS, SD-WAN, Server clustering technologies."
That preserves info.
Skills: Competencies/Skills paragraph: "Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including experience presenting to executive leadership. Education Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or equivalent professional experience."
We could split into Skills and Education? But rule: use heading Skills for skills. Education maybe part of Skills or separate? There's no explicit Education heading but we can include under Skills as part of competencies. We'll just put that as
under Skills section.
Benefits: paragraph: "At RectorSeal, our employees enjoy the following benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, 401(k), pension, life insurance, paid time off program with paid holidays, and various wellness programs."
We'll put as
- each benefit? Could list each benefit as
- . We'll split: comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans; 401(k); pension; life insurance; paid time off program with paid holidays; various wellness programs.
Schedule: detail: "This hybrid role will require a presence at our Houston Spenwick facility for four to five days during regular business hours."
We'll put as
.
Now ensure no boilerplate: remove "What Makes This Opportunity Exciting...." lines? Those are bullet points under that heading. They are substantive? They are like excitement points. Could include under About the role? But they are separate bullet list after "What Makes This Opportunity Exciting....". They are substantive but maybe considered part of About the role. We could incorporate them into About the role paragraph or as separate list under About the role? The rule: include a section only when posting has real specific content. We could keep them as part of About the role. But we already have About the role paragraph; we could add those excitement points as
- under About the role? However About the role is not a list; we could add a
after the paragraph. But the rule says use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Excitement points are not duties/requirements/benefits but could be considered list. Safer to include them as part of About the role paragraph? Might lose detail. Better to add a
under About the role heading? But we already used About the role and then
. Could add another
after the . That's still under same section? Might be okay.
But we must not repeat job title as heading. Already fine.
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Let's craft:
About the role
We are seeking an experienced Senior IT Manager, Enterprise Infrastructure & Operations, to lead the strategy, execution, and day-to-day management of our enterprise technology infrastructure across multiple manufacturing facilities and distribution centers. This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for ensuring the reliability, security, scalability, and modernization of our technology environment. The successful candidate will drive infrastructure transformation initiatives, cloud adoption, cybersecurity programs, operational technology (OT) integration, and enterprise service delivery while leading a team of infrastructure professionals and strategic service providers. The ideal candidate combines strong leadership skills with deep technical expertise and enjoys working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where they can influence technology strategy and business outcomes. This hybrid role will require a presence at our Houston Spenwick facility for four to five days during regular business hours.
- Lead enterprise-wide infrastructure modernization initiatives.
- Drive cloud transformation and digital innovation efforts.
- Influence cybersecurity strategy and operational excellence.
- Partner closely with executive leadership and business stakeholders.
- Build and develop high-performing infrastructure teams.
- Make a direct impact across manufacturing, distribution, and corporate operations.
Then Responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the enterprise infrastructure roadmap to support business growth, manufacturing modernization, acquisitions, cybersecurity initiatives, and cloud transformation.
- Lead infrastructure projects including system installations, upgrades, hardware refreshes, migrations, and technology retirements.
- Drive cloud adoption initiatives, including migrations from on-premises environments to Microsoft Azure and Entra ID.
- Evaluate and recommend on-premises, hosted, outsourced, and cloud-based solutions to improve service delivery, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Manage data center, server, storage, networking, telecommunications, and enterprise operations environments.
- Provide leadership for enterprise infrastructure operations, ensuring high availability and performance of critical business systems.
- Serve as an escalation point for major incidents and lead root cause analysis efforts.
- Partner with technology teams to strengthen disaster recovery, business continuity, capacity planning, change management, and security practices.
- Oversee 24x7 support operations and managed service provider (MSP) relationships.
- Establish and monitor service levels, performance metrics, scorecards, and vendor accountability.
- Lead infrastructure-related cybersecurity initiatives, including vulnerability management, patching, monitoring, and remediation efforts.
- Collaborate with Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) and internal stakeholders to enhance security posture.
- Partner with Operations and Engineering teams to support connectivity between enterprise IT systems and manufacturing/OT environments.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of infrastructure professionals, including Server Administrators, Help Desk personnel, and external service providers.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and professional development.
- Conduct
for prose. We must not repeat job title as heading. Do not put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate etc. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. Thus sections: About The Role (maybe heading "About the role"), Responsibilities, Requirements (maybe "Minimum Qualifications"), Skills (maybe "Competencies/Skills"), Benefits, Schedule. We need to extract content. About The Role: The paragraph after "About The Role" includes several sentences. We'll put that in
. Responsibilities: There's a list under "Key Responsibilities" with subheadings: Infrastructure Leadership and Strategy, Operational Excellence, Cybersecurity & OT Integration, People Leadership. Each has bullet-like sentences. We need to turn duties into
- . We'll combine all responsibilities into a list? Could separate subheadings but rule says use
for section headings only; we could keep subheadings as
maybe? But better to keep as
- items, maybe with bold? Not allowed to add extra tags beyond
,
- ,
. We can embed subheadings inside
- as plain text.
Thus
Responsibilities
then- each duty. We need to parse responsibilities: Infrastructure Leadership and Strategy: - Develop and execute the enterprise infrastructure roadmap to support business growth, manufacturing modernization, acquisitions, cybersecurity initiatives, and cloud transformation. - Lead infrastructure projects including system installations, upgrades, hardware refreshes, migrations, and technology retirements. - Drive cloud adoption initiatives, including migrations from on-premises environments to Microsoft Azure and Entra ID. - Evaluate and recommend on-premises, hosted, outsourced, and cloud-based solutions to improve service delivery, reliability, and cost efficiency. - Manage data center, server, storage, networking, telecommunications, and enterprise operations environments. Operational Excellence: - Provide leadership for enterprise infrastructure operations, ensuring high availability and performance of critical business systems. - Serve as an escalation point for major incidents and lead root cause analysis efforts. - Partner with technology teams to strengthen disaster recovery, business continuity, capacity planning, change management, and security practices. - Oversee 24x7 support operations and managed service provider (MSP) relationships. - Establish and monitor service levels, performance metrics, scorecards, and vendor accountability. Cybersecurity & OT Integration: - Lead infrastructure-related cybersecurity initiatives, including vulnerability management, patching, monitoring, and remediation efforts. - Collaborate with Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) and internal stakeholders to enhance security posture. - Partner with Operations and Engineering teams to support connectivity between enterprise IT systems and manufacturing/OT environments. People Leadership: - Lead, coach, and develop a team of infrastructure professionals, including Server Administrators, Help Desk personnel, and external service providers. - Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and professional development. - Conduct performance management, talent development planning, and succession planning activities. - Define departmental goals and align individual objectives with broader business priorities. We'll list each as
- . Requirements: Minimum Qualifications bullet list. Extract: - 8+ years of progressive leadership experience in enterprise infrastructure and operations. - Proven experience developing and executing infrastructure strategies that support business growth and digital transformation. - Strong experience managing Managed Service Providers (MSPs), including SLA management, performance reviews, and escalation processes. - Hands-on leadership experience with: - Microsoft Windows Server - Active Directory & Entra ID - Microsoft Azure - Intune - SQL Server - Oracle - Hyper-V - RDS - SD-WAN - Server clustering technologies - Experience leading enterprise migrations from on-premises environments to cloud and hybrid infrastructures. - Experience implementing and supporting Operational Technology (OT) environments. - Demonstrated success in managing major outage events and disaster recovery activities. - Strong knowledge of change management, infrastructure governance, and IT service management best practices. We need to format as list; nested list for hands-on leadership experience? Could flatten: each technology as separate
- maybe under a parent? But rule: use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Could have nested lists but still
- . We'll keep simple: each bullet as
- . For the hands-on leadership experience, we can make a
- that includes the list in parentheses or as a sentence. Simpler: make a
- "Hands-on leadership experience with Microsoft Windows Server, Active Directory & Entra ID, Microsoft Azure, Intune, SQL Server, Oracle, Hyper-V, RDS, SD-WAN, Server clustering technologies."
That preserves info.
Skills: Competencies/Skills paragraph: "Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including experience presenting to executive leadership. Education Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or equivalent professional experience."
We could split into Skills and Education? But rule: use heading Skills for skills. Education maybe part of Skills or separate? There's no explicit Education heading but we can include under Skills as part of competencies. We'll just put that as
under Skills section. Benefits: paragraph: "At RectorSeal, our employees enjoy the following benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, 401(k), pension, life insurance, paid time off program with paid holidays, and various wellness programs." We'll put as
- each benefit? Could list each benefit as
- . We'll split: comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans; 401(k); pension; life insurance; paid time off program with paid holidays; various wellness programs.
Schedule: detail: "This hybrid role will require a presence at our Houston Spenwick facility for four to five days during regular business hours."
We'll put as
. Now ensure no boilerplate: remove "What Makes This Opportunity Exciting...." lines? Those are bullet points under that heading. They are substantive? They are like excitement points. Could include under About the role? But they are separate bullet list after "What Makes This Opportunity Exciting....". They are substantive but maybe considered part of About the role. We could incorporate them into About the role paragraph or as separate list under About the role? The rule: include a section only when posting has real specific content. We could keep them as part of About the role. But we already have About the role paragraph; we could add those excitement points as
- under About the role? However About the role is not a list; we could add a
- after the paragraph. But the rule says use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Excitement points are not duties/requirements/benefits but could be considered list. Safer to include them as part of About the role paragraph? Might lose detail. Better to add a
- under About the role heading? But we already used
- Lead enterprise-wide infrastructure modernization initiatives.
- Drive cloud transformation and digital innovation efforts.
- Influence cybersecurity strategy and operational excellence.
- Partner closely with executive leadership and business stakeholders.
- Build and develop high-performing infrastructure teams.
- Make a direct impact across manufacturing, distribution, and corporate operations.
- Develop and execute the enterprise infrastructure roadmap to support business growth, manufacturing modernization, acquisitions, cybersecurity initiatives, and cloud transformation.
- Lead infrastructure projects including system installations, upgrades, hardware refreshes, migrations, and technology retirements.
- Drive cloud adoption initiatives, including migrations from on-premises environments to Microsoft Azure and Entra ID.
- Evaluate and recommend on-premises, hosted, outsourced, and cloud-based solutions to improve service delivery, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Manage data center, server, storage, networking, telecommunications, and enterprise operations environments.
- Provide leadership for enterprise infrastructure operations, ensuring high availability and performance of critical business systems.
- Serve as an escalation point for major incidents and lead root cause analysis efforts.
- Partner with technology teams to strengthen disaster recovery, business continuity, capacity planning, change management, and security practices.
- Oversee 24x7 support operations and managed service provider (MSP) relationships.
- Establish and monitor service levels, performance metrics, scorecards, and vendor accountability.
- Lead infrastructure-related cybersecurity initiatives, including vulnerability management, patching, monitoring, and remediation efforts.
- Collaborate with Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) and internal stakeholders to enhance security posture.
- Partner with Operations and Engineering teams to support connectivity between enterprise IT systems and manufacturing/OT environments.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of infrastructure professionals, including Server Administrators, Help Desk personnel, and external service providers.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and professional development.
- Conduct
About the role and then
. Could add another
- after the
. That's still under same section? Might be okay. But we must not repeat job title as heading. Already fine. We need to output only HTML fragment. Let's craft:
About the role
We are seeking an experienced Senior IT Manager, Enterprise Infrastructure & Operations, to lead the strategy, execution, and day-to-day management of our enterprise technology infrastructure across multiple manufacturing facilities and distribution centers. This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for ensuring the reliability, security, scalability, and modernization of our technology environment. The successful candidate will drive infrastructure transformation initiatives, cloud adoption, cybersecurity programs, operational technology (OT) integration, and enterprise service delivery while leading a team of infrastructure professionals and strategic service providers. The ideal candidate combines strong leadership skills with deep technical expertise and enjoys working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where they can influence technology strategy and business outcomes. This hybrid role will require a presence at our Houston Spenwick facility for four to five days during regular business hours.
Responsibilities
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Excitement points are not duties/requirements/benefits but could be considered list. Safer to include them as part of About the role paragraph? Might lose detail. Better to add a
- under About the role? However About the role is not a list; we could add a
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Could have nested lists but still
- ,
- items, maybe with bold? Not allowed to add extra tags beyond