At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a global team to enhance and secure IT infrastructure.
- Company: Dynamic IT services company partnering with global organizations.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, medical benefits, RRSP matching, and career growth.
- Other info: Join a growing team focused on proactive and automated infrastructure solutions.
- Why this job: Transform infrastructure operations and drive innovation in a collaborative environment.
- Qualifications: Experience leading technical teams and expertise in VMware, Windows, and Linux.
The predicted salary is between 118800 - 145200 $ per year.
Our client, a dynamic Information Technology services company that partners with leading global organizations to deliver innovative, high-quality IT solutions, is looking for a Platform Infrastructure Manager to join their growing team. They are seeking an experienced Platform Infrastructure Manager to lead their global infrastructure platform, ensuring it is secure, resilient, reliable, scalable, and continuously improving.
You will lead a geographically distributed team of Infrastructure SMEs and Engineers and provide technical and operational leadership across virtualization, compute, Linux, Windows, identity, storage, and data-centre infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Lead, develop, and mentor a global team of Infrastructure SMEs and Engineers.
- Establish technical ownership, standards, roadmaps, and accountability.
- Own the strategy, architecture, availability, security, and lifecycle of the infrastructure platform.
- Manage and provide technical leadership across: VMware vSphere / ESXi / vSAN, Proxmox, Ubuntu / Canonical Linux, Windows Server / Active Directory / Group Policy, Microsoft Exchange, Pure Storage and enterprise storage, Physical data-centre infrastructure.
- Drive infrastructure reliability, capacity, resilience, disaster recovery, and continual improvement.
- Provide technical leadership during major incidents and drive root-cause and Problem Management.
- Ensure infrastructure security, vulnerability management, patching, hardening, and compliance.
- Drive automation using scripting, Infrastructure-as-Code, configuration management, and automated provisioning.
- Improve monitoring, observability, telemetry, and proactive infrastructure management.
- Lead infrastructure requirements for major projects and transformation initiatives.
- Manage technology lifecycles, vendors, capacity planning, budgets, and infrastructure investment.
- Work closely with Network, Applications, Security, Service Management, and Monitoring teams.
Qualifications
- Proven experience leading geographically distributed technical teams.
- Strong experience with VMware/ESXi and Proxmox.
- Strong Windows Server and Active Directory experience.
- Experience with Linux/Ubuntu environments.
- Experience with enterprise storage and data-centre infrastructure.
- Experience with Microsoft Exchange.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure security, resilience, availability, and disaster recovery.
- Experience with Incident, Problem, Change, and Service Management.
- Demonstrated experience delivering infrastructure transformation and continual improvement.
What Success Looks Like
You will help transform infrastructure operations from a reactive support function into a proactive, technically led and increasingly automated Platform Engineering organization. Success will include:
- Improved availability, resilience, and security.
- Reduced incidents and MTTR.
- Increased automation and standardization.
- Improved monitoring and proactive problem detection.
- Reduced technical debt and configuration drift.
- Stronger technical SME capability.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing team. The company offers a competitive compensation package, medical & health benefits, and RRSP matching.
Platform Infrastructure Manager in Halifax employer: Humankind Global Recruitment
Join a forward-thinking company that prioritizes innovation and collaboration, making it an exceptional employer for Senior Software Engineers focused on AI transformation. With a strong emphasis on employee growth, you will have access to mentorship opportunities and cutting-edge projects that enhance your skills in a supportive work culture. Located in a vibrant tech hub, this role offers the unique advantage of working alongside industry leaders while contributing to meaningful advancements in technology.
Contact Details:
Humankind Global Recruitment Recruitment Team
