Sr. Infrastructure Engineer

I.T. takes a team.

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Senior Infrastructure Engineer

OunceIT September 2026

OunceIT is seeking an experienced talented and motivated Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our growing team supporting non-profits mission-based organizations and independent schools in Massachusetts. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing implementing and maintaining resilient and secure infrastructure including on-premise and hybrid server environments as well as a variety of network environments.

Position Summary

You will build and maintain high-level technical advisory partnerships with core clients delivering technology benchmarks and industry-standard practices under the guidance of our leadership team. You are tasked with designing and deploying robust server and network configurations for a variety of environments including small offices and large multi-building and multi-site campuses and you will be responsible for the oversight and managementor collaborative co-managementof significant technical infrastructure projects.

Primary Responsibilities

Design deploy and maintain robust server and network infrastructure to support our clients environments.

Design configure and maintain performant and resilient server environments to meet the needs of our clients current and future technology operations.

Configure and optimize network hardware including routers switches firewalls wireless access points and VPN solutions to ensure secure and reliable connectivity.

Design and lead complex infrastructure-related engineering projects including system upgrades migrations and new deployments.

Monitor environment performance troubleshoot latency and bandwidth issues and implement changes to improve stability and throughput.

Create and maintain comprehensive documentation including detailed equipment and environment diagrams system engineering plans and technical standards.

Ensure server and network designs comply with all security policies supports scalability and aligns with clients operational budget and mission requirements.

Mentor and guide less experienced technical engineers providing technical oversight and sharing knowledge.

About You

You are an enthusiastic technology professional with 8 years of experience keeping client-facing IT environments running with minimal interruption. Youre excited by the unknown embracing messy situations and moving them to a stable solution. You analyze and design systems - including server storage and network environments - from a holistic perspective not just a technical one. You dont consider yourself an expert in any one IT sector - you appreciate that all systems are connected and you leverage that idea to build even better solutions. You appreciate the simple yet resilient scalable maintainable solution just as much as the fancy solution with the newest features. You value teamwork and thrive in an environment where all viewpoints are heard. You relish opportunities to teach more junior team members and you look forward to learning the newest technologies.

About Us

We believe that I.T. takes a team.

OunceIT is rapidly expanding and we need people to join our amazing team of IT experts. Our offices are based in Natick MA and we are expanding our reach across the metro Boston and surrounding areas.

We offer a friendly entrepreneurial and supportive culture with a tenured and experienced leadership team that believes in the passion and effectiveness of what a group of committed folks can accomplish together.

We offer excellent health insurance including retirement matching paid time off and other perks.

Our clients are primarily k-12 independent schools and mission based non-profits in the greater Boston area and include the North/South Shore and Worcester areas..

Access to a car is a necessity. We cannot pay for relocation costs. This position is predominantly an in person/on-site position while there will be some flexibility to work from home based on how well work is organized.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Networking Engineering Electrical Engineering Information Systems or a related technical discipline with 8 years of relevant experience ideally in a consulting or MSP environment.
• Experience designing building and maintaining both physical and virtual hosts in environments of various scope and scale from single office to multi-building campus environments.
• Proven experience in engineering and sustaining server infrastructure and hands-on experience troubleshooting and maintaining on-prem and hybrid server environments.
• Strong understanding of building resilient infrastructure including knowledge of highly available and redundant systems.
• Proven administration of current virtualization platforms (Hyper-V VMware etc.) and understanding of related best practices (backups HA DR etc.)
• Experience administering Windows Server environments including services such as Active Directory DNS DHCP print management Exchange GPO file services MySQL etc.
• Experience in engineering and sustaining network systems in support of server storage and other on-premise infrastructure.
• Experience working with different teams across disciplines to ensure robust solutions that can be supported by multiple parties.
• Experienced in technical change management practices to reduce risk prevent avoidable outages and ensure changes to critical systems are executed in a controlled well-documented way.
• Strong customer service skills with both in-person and remote situations
• Demonstrable project/process management background and experience in a technical environment
• Strong time-management organization leadership and administrative skills and ability to manage competing priorities
• Ability to balance working autonomously while also working as a member of a larger team

How to Apply

If this sounds like the job for you tell us why we should hire you and a little about your own experience and skills. Please send a cover letter along with a resume.

Required Experience:

Senior IC