IT Infrastructure Engineer

The IT Infrastructure Engineer plays a vital role in managing and supporting the organization's users, systems, and IT infrastructure across multiple locations, including the Microsoft Cloud platform.

Serving as a key subject matter expert (SME) within the IT infrastructure team, this role collaborates closely with stakeholders to design, implement, maintain, and secure robust computing infrastructure solutions-both on-premise and in Microsoft Azure Cloud.

Come join our team!

Primary Duties & Responsibilities


* Design, implement and manage the Computing infrastructure technologies and cloud services delivered.


* Establish, promote, and enforce infrastructure best practices for system configuration and IT operations and security to ensure continuous availability, data integrity, performance and consistency across all platforms and systems


* Proactively plan IT Infrastructure to support employee Informational, business growth and compliance needs


* Availability to provide after-hours/on-call support, as needed


* Provide high-level support to technical team members locally and at remote sites regarding systems maintenance, implementation, and troubleshooting

Education & Experience


* BS in Comp Science, Engineering or Related field Typically requires a minimum of 7 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree; or 5 years and a master's degree; or a PhD without years' experience; or equivalent work experience


* Must be able to obtain and maintain secret US Security clearance


* Microsoft Azure Administrator certification Required


* Minimum 5+ years of similar IT Systems Administration experience in a mid to large manufacturing environment.


* Minimum 2 years Managing Microsoft Azure Infrastructures including major services related to Compute, Storage, Network and Security services

Skills


* Extensive skills in data center services and management both on premise and in the cloud


* Possess a deep understanding of cloud computing technologies along with a strong understanding of Microsoft Cloud offerings, capabilities, and limitations


* In-depth knowledge experience implementing or supporting Microsoft 365 applications including Exchange, Office products and MDM solutions


* Proven experience in troubleshooting and resolving Azure environment performance issues, connectivity issues, security issues etc.


* Able to design and implement Windows servers and services - Active Directory Virtualization etc.

as needed


* Thorough understanding of infrastructure (firewalls, load balancers, hypervisor, storage, monitoring, security, etc.)


* experience with orchestration to develop a cloud solution.


* In-depth knowledge of operating systems (Microsoft Server, Linux/Unix), Knowledge of network and data communication protocols and technologies


* Experience with Windows Server Administration, Windows Server and SQL database creation, configuration, upgrade, and patc...