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

Bachelor’s 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.

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