Enterprise Infrastructure Director jobs in Indiana

Aqueduct Technologies is seeking a Director of IT Infrastructure for our customer based in Zionsville, IN. The Director of IT Infrastructure provides strategic leadership and guidance for all IT infrastructure and managing the staff who implement, maintain, and provide support to the entire organization. Infrastructure includes all data center environments, circuits, networking, telephony, laptops/desktops/endpoints, servers and storage, email and productivity tools, infrastructure cloud solutions, back-ups, and environment authentication.

Main Responsibilities:

• Directing IT infrastructure staff to provide comprehensive and high-quality support to all users
• Evaluating, recommending, and implementing new infrastructure solutions and services
• Maintaining and upgrading existing infrastructure solutions to ensure reliability, availability, and scalability
• Managing third-party vendors, including cloud data center providers and managed service provides for networking and telephony
• Coordinating infrastructure staffing and solutions to support company-wide projects and initiatives
• Working closely with the IT Security team to ensure the security posture is complete and effective
• Providing detailed metrics related to department performance and service level achievement
• Directing all operations related to infrastructure systems hardware and software acquisition, use, support, security best practices, and backup
• Developing, implementing, and maintaining corporate standards and specifications for hardware, software and computer networking
• Implementing and maintaining effective Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans
• Developing and enacting policies and procedures to ensure consistent articulation of technology guidelines to the user community and technology staff
• Conducting routine staff evaluations to ensure technical skills levels and knowledge meet company needs
• Establishing staff develop plans to ensure the recruitment and retention of highly skilled staff as well as the development and promotion of current staff
• Managing infrastructure budget items

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 8 years of direct, technical experience required
• 3 years of people leading experience required
• Comprehensive and broad knowledge of all aspects of IT infrastructure
• Experience with leading and managing technical teams
• Experience with managing external vendors and establishing contracts and statements of work
• Excellent organization and time management skills; prioritize work effectively to meet deadlines

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with maintaining and supporting corporate MPLS networks including, VPNs, routers and other physical networking hardware. Installing and configuring network equipment along with an understanding of firewalls both on physical and virtual devices. Cisco knowledge and experience preferred.
• Deploying Office/Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure AD Environments along with skills needed to deploy advanced Microsoft 365 Services including Enterprise and Mobility and architect Office/Microsoft 365 Service Environments.
• Experience with both private and public cloud data center management of corporate application stacks and data. The technical tasks involved in planning, architecting, migrating, monitoring, and managing a company's cloud systems.