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Location: Irving TX (Hybrid)
Job Type: Full-time Exempt
The Director of IT Infrastructure is a hands-on technical leader responsible for designing operating and continuously improving a hybrid infrastructure spanning an on-premises data center a colocation facility and an Azure cloud footprint. This role owns day-to-day infrastructure operations (servers storage networking cloud services and end-user compute) while driving the long-term strategy for reliability scalability performance security and cost optimization. Over the next six months the Director will lead the migration to a new colocation site and establish redundancy for the on-prem environment in the cloud or a secondary colocation.
Develop and maintain a 3-year roadmap aligned with business goals emphasizing scalability redundancy and security
Provide architecture leadership for Nutanix Cisco Meraki O365/M365
Own uptime and performance of all infrastructure services meeting agreed RTO/RPO and SLA targets
Implement and refine monitoring alerting and capacity management processes
Champion ITIL-aligned change incident and problem management practices with root cause analysis
Drive the security architecture for LES set policies harden platforms and remediate vulnerabilities
Manage 3rd-party SOC relationships
Perform independent vulnerability assessments as needed
Ensure patching configuration baselines and privileged access are tightly managed
Plan and execute the upcoming data center migration (colo to colo) on time and on budget
Lead future cloud migration/DR initiatives produce risk analyses and deliver decision packets to leadership
Define additional infrastructure improvement projects and oversee execution
Manage contracts and performance of colo cloud network telecom and hardware vendors
Negotiate renewals and new services
Track infrastructure OPEX/CAPEX and identify cost savings opportunities
Build a high-performing team that values change control documentation risk awareness and continuous improvement
Mentor engineers and create career paths and training plans
10 years in infrastructure engineering/operations including 5 years in a leadership role
Demonstrated success administering Nutanix Cisco Meraki networking Microsoft O365/M365 and managing data center environments
Proven experience owning or co-owning an enterprise security program (patching hardening SIEM/SOC collaboration)
Strong knowledge of data center relocations hybrid cloud architecture disaster recovery/business continuity planning (DR/BCP) and ITIL processes
Excellent communication and leadership skills
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or related field (or equivalent experience)
Experience in environmental services or other 247 operational industries
General office conditions with periods of sitting
Occasional light lifting or bending
Hybrid work schedule required at the Irving TX corporate office
Must be able to perform the job with or without reasonable accommodations
Note: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employees may be assigned additional responsibilities as required. This document does not constitute an employment contract. Liquid Environmental Solutions maintains an at will employment relationship with all team members.
Required Experience:
Director
Full-Time