Infrastructure Engineer (Windows Expert)

Job Title: Infrastructure Engineer (Windows Expert)

Location: East Brunswick NJ

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Design implement and maintain complex enterprise-scale physical and virtualized infrastructure ensuring seamless integration between on-premises systems and AWS cloud environments.
• Lead the architectural design and governance of VMware technologies including advanced site recovery orchestration (SRM) to ensure business continuity and automated disaster recovery.
• Plan and lead high-stakes upgrades complex migrations and long-term capacity expansions based on multi-year business roadmaps.
• Oversee the installation configuration and expert-level maintenance of Windows Linux and IBM MQ servers establishing the gold standards for performance security and high availability.
• Drive infrastructure automation initiatives using scripting and configuration management tools to standardize routine maintenance patching and resource monitoring.
• Provide Tier 3 troubleshooting support to resolve the most complex server and storage-related issues that cannot be resolved by junior teams.
• Develop and enforce comprehensive infrastructure documentation standards including architectural blueprints procedural playbooks and best practice frameworks.
• Perform expert-level IBM MQ administration including high-level cluster configuration performance tuning and global monitoring strategies.
• Govern the Microsoft 365 suite and productivity tools ensuring enterprise-wide security compliance tenant health and optimal user experience.
• Establish and audit security best practices across all infrastructure layers ensuring alignment with industry frameworks and internal compliance mandates.
• Collaborate with senior application owners and stakeholders to architect optimized system performance and solve systemic technical bottlenecks.
• Architect and oversee the deployment of robust multi-site backup and recovery solutions for virtual machines NAS and mission-critical applications.
• Define strategy for regular backup integrity testing and data availability audits to ensure 100% data recoverability.
• Architect and govern AWS compute and storage environments ensuring optimal instanceselection (EC2) volume management (EBS/EFS) and S3 lifecycle policies for enterprise workloads.
• Lead the design and management of AWS Sandbox and production environments enforcing infrastructure governance through AWS Organizations and IAM least-privilege resource access.
• Orchestrate large-scale migrations of on-premises VMware workloads to AWS utilizing AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) to ensure minimal downtime and platform stability.
• Implement and manage AWS Backup and Disaster Recovery strategies ensuring cloud-native workloads meet the same RPO/RTO standards as on-premises core servers.
• Optimize AWS cloud infrastructure costs by implementing advanced resource monitoring autoscaling groups and strategic instance rightsizing to support the business cost-efficiency goals.
• Lead cross-functional IT teams and consult with external clients throughout the infrastructure lifecycle delivering high-level strategic solutions from initial assessment to change implementation

Requirements & Skills:

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent high-level certifications and 7 10 years of hands-on experience in enterprise infrastructure administration.
• Expert-level mastery in at least four of the following areas: Windows/Linux Server VMware (including SRM) SAN/NAS Storage IBM MQ AWS Infrastructure and Automation.
• Proven ability to architect and govern security best practices and frameworks across hybridcloud environments.
• Superior troubleshooting and root-cause analysis (RCA) skills with the ability to solve unprecedented and highly complex technical challenges.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical roadmaps and concepts to executive leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams manage high-priority projects and mentor junior engineers in a fast-paced environment.
• ITIL Intermediate or Expert certification (Preferred).
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate (Highly Preferred).
• Advanced professional certifications such as VCAP (VMware Certified Advanced Professional) or CISSP (Preferred).
• Extensive experience architecting and governing AWS compute and storage platforms at an enterprise scale (Preferred).