Sr. Manager- Infrastructure & Network

Job Duties

• Help define and execute the roadmap for IT infrastructure and network modernization, capacity planning, and cloud-based initiatives
• Manage, update, and document reference architecture and implementation standards
• Establish technology standards and operational procedures
• Ensure high availability, performance, and security across all environments
• Establish and/or maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans, and oversee major incident response and root cause analysis
• Manage budgets, evaluate enterprise solutions, and drive contract negotiations with vendors
• Develop and execute infrastructure and network strategy aligned with business objectives
• Design and support hybrid infrastructure environments
• Ensure systems align with security policies and regulatory frameworks
• Lead projects through scoping, budgeting, implementation, command and control, escalations, risk management, and time management
• Ensure project governance is defined and maintained
• Prepare technical analysis, reports, cost estimates, and contract documents
• Identify and implement strategies to enhance infrastructure efficiency, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness
• Research and recommend innovative technologies, processes, and practices to improve infrastructure operations
• Lead network security initiatives, including firewall management, segmentation, VPN, and incident response for network-related threats
• Partner with application, development, security, and business stakeholders to align infrastructure decisions with organizational needs
• Drive automation to reduce manual operations and improve reliability
• Support internal and external audits
• Manage strategic technology vendors
• Hire, mentor, and manage performance of the infrastructure and network team to build organizational capability
• Develop operational metrics and KPIs and produce executive dashboards and infrastructure health reports

Required Skills And Abilities

• Ability to plan and manage projects effectively
• Experience with capacity planning and identifying opportunities to consolidate/decommission servers, databases and storage
• Deep understanding of enterprise operating systems, directory services, networking, virtualization, and database systems, with demonstrated proficiency in both on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure
• Proven track record leading enterprise infrastructure and network teams, with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive multiple teams toward a common goal
• Strong analytical skills and data driven decision making
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Strong organizational skills and business acumen
• Demonstrated ability to create product specifications, performing competitive analysis and market research
• Experience hiring, mentoring, and managing performance for infrastructure and network staff
• Hands-on familiarity with enterprise networking and infrastructure technologies (e.g., Cisco, VMware, firewalls, and network security tooling)
• Experience in Microsoft Azure cloud in areas such as Entra, PIM, Defender, InTune, Exchange, M365, Purview and Sharepoint
• Network experience in Routing, Switching, Load Balancers and Firewalls
• Cybersecurity awareness in endpoint protection, SIEM and SOC management, and security controls
• Plus would be experience in across multiple security tools
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring and observability tools for performance, capacity, and alerting
• Working knowledge of compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and other relevant regulatory standards