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Irving, TX - USA

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Not Disclosed

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Job Description

Director of IT Infrastructure

Location: Irving TX (Hybrid)
Job Type: Full-time Exempt

Position Overview:

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.

Essential Functions:

Infrastructure Strategy & Architecture

  • 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

Operations & Reliability

  • 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

Security Ownership

  • 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

Project Leadership

  • 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

Vendor & Budget Management

  • 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

Team Development & Culture

  • Build a high-performing team that values change control documentation risk awareness and continuous improvement

  • Mentor engineers and create career paths and training plans

Required Education and Experience:

  • 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)

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in environmental services or other 247 operational industries

Working Environment:

  • 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.


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