Platform Infrastructure Manager

Humankind Recruitment; Halifax; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & health benefits

RRSP matching

Competitive compensation package

Job summary

Halifax-based IT services company is seeking a Platform Infrastructure Manager to lead a global infrastructure platform. The role focuses on security, resilience, scalability, and continual improvement across virtualization, compute, Linux, Windows, storage, and data-centre infrastructure.

You will manage a geographically distributed team of Infrastructure SMEs and Engineers, drive automation, incident leadership, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, scalable platform

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Proven leadership of geographically distributed technical teams.
• Strong VMware/ESXi and Proxmox experience.
• Windows Server and Active Directory expertise.
• Linux/Ubuntu experience.
• Enterprise storage and data-centre infrastructure experience.
• Microsoft Exchange experience.
• Strong security, resilience, availability, and disaster recovery knowledge.
• Experience with Incident, Problem, Change, and Service Management.
• Transformation and continual improvement track record.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and mentor a global team of engineers.
• Own strategy, architecture, availability, security, and lifecycle.
• Provide technical leadership across virtualization, compute, storage, and data-centre infra.
• Drive automation and IaC, monitoring, and proactive management.
• Collaborate with Network, Applications, Security, and Service Management teams.
• Manage budgets, vendors, and infra investments.
• Support major projects and transformation initiatives.

Skills

VMware/ESXi

Proxmox

Windows Server

Active Directory

Linux/Ubuntu

Enterprise storage

Microsoft Exchange

Security & DR

Automation & IaC

Incident & Problem Mgmt

Tools

PowerShell

Ansible

Puppet

Monitoring tools

Job description

Platform Infrastructure Manager

Halifax (Hybrid-2 days in office)

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

• Significant experience managing enterprise infrastructure environments.
• 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.