Sr. IT Infrastructure Engineer

As the Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer, you will lead the management and enhancement of our organization's IT infrastructure. As a senior member of a team of dedicated IT professionals, you will play an important role in developing the strategy, and implementation of cutting-edge technologies to drive the growth and efficiency of our global manufacturing enterprise while maintain high availability and service levels of operational support.

Essential Functions

• Strategic Planning:Assist with the development and execution of a forward-thinking IT infrastructure strategy to align with business objectives and growth initiatives.
• Infrastructure Roadmap:Responsible for delivering and managing critical projects within the infrastructure and operations strategic roadmap.
• Operational Support:Manage Tier 1-3 support operations, ensuring timely issue resolution and customer satisfaction.
• Maintain infrastructure for high availability and optimal performance.
• Enhance operational processes and ensure technology alignment with organizational needs.
• Responsible for monthly server and desktop patching and updates.
• Infrastructure Optimization:Continuously evaluate and improve the IT infrastructure to ensure scalability, security, and reliability.
• Technology Integration:Stay abreast of emerging technologies and assess their potential to enhance our IT infrastructure.
• Security and Compliance:Ensure our IT infrastructure complies with all security and regulatory standards.
• Collaboration:Foster cross-functional collaboration with other departments to ensure IT solutions meet the needs of the business.
• Vendor Management:Collaborate with technology vendors and service providers to evaluate, source, collaborate, and manage IT solutions.
• Disaster Recovery\Business Continuity Planning:Develop, test and maintain disaster recovery plans to ensure business continuity.
• Project Delivery:Manage key project deliverables aligned with Infrastructure roadmap and help drive them to successful completion and delivering business value.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Skills/Abilities

• Demonstrated experience in IT infrastructure management.
• Profound knowledge of infrastructure technologies, cloud services, network architecture, and virtualization. Technologies include Microsoft Server, Active Directory, VMWare, Veeam, Cisco Meraki, Pure Storage, Linux, Microsoft SQL, O365 and Microsoft Azure.
• Outstanding project management skills.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
• Industry certifications such as CCNA, CompTIA Security+, or ITIL are advantageous.
• Familiarity with IT infrastructure in the manufacturing sector is a plus.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelors degree in information technology or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of IT infrastructure design, support and maintenance experience.

Essential Knowledge

• Willingness to solve complicated problems and see projects through to completion.
• Team-oriented attitude to mentor other colleagues and departments with technical problems.
• Strong interpersonal communication and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to manage time and effectively prioritize numerous projects at one time.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Personal Qualities

• Passionate about working and winning in a team environment.
• Results oriented and driven, with a track record for delivering to plan.
• Flexibility to adapt quickly to changing circumstances.Able to proactively question and challenge to prioritize and identify solutions in timely manner.
• Clear and logical thinker.
• Relish working in a company with a diverse, challenging, and fast paced environment.

Travel Requirements

• This position is mostly office based but may involve irregular travel.
• Reliable transportation as position supports multiple local craftories.

Physical Demands

• Basic physical stances and actions (sitting, standing, walking).
• Occasionally move boxes and equipment weighing up to 50 pounds.