Director, IT Infrastructure

Blackstone Technology Group; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackstone Talent Group is seeking a Director, IT Infrastructure to lead the company’s multi-site IT landscape, delivering secure, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure. You will guide a small IT team, manage critical applications, and oversee virtualization, backups, and security across locations.

The role requires hands-on technical leadership and strategic oversight in an engineering-centric organization, with focus on cloud and on-prem workloads, and a strong emphasis on cybersecurity

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent required.

Responsibilities

• Own the company’s IT Infrastructure across multiple locations with a focus on secure, scalable, cost-effective solutions.
• Lead and mentor a small IT Infrastructure and Help Desk team (2-3 people) including hiring and training.
• Provide support for company-wide applications and services (Active Directory, Google Workspace, SolidWorks, Okta, Zoom, CrowdStrike, Arena PLM, QAD, AD, fileserver/storage, firewalls & switches).
• Oversee virtualization environments (Hyper-V, VMware) across locations including server hardware, storage, configuration, licensing, monitoring, capacity, and performance.
• Manage production systems including backups, performance tuning, fault resolution, capacity planning, and root cause analysis across sites.
• Drive efficiency improvements through discovery, evaluation and testing against industry best practices.
• Effectively manage time and priorities; deliver projects on schedule and communicate issues to teammates.
• Occasionally handle tier-2-3 escalated Help Desk tickets.

Skills

Leadership

IT infrastructure

Active Directory

Google Workspace

VMware

Hyper-V

Networking

Cybersecurity

Vendor negotiations

SOX

Education

BS degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Advanced degree desirable

Tools

SolidWorks

Okta

Zoom

CrowdStrike

Arena PLM

QAD

Active Directory

VMware

Hyper-V

Palo Alto Networks

Meraki

Cisco switches

Veeam

Job description

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency is seeking a Director, IT Infrastructure to join our Client's team. The Director of IT Infrastructure is a hands-on role for a multisite, engineering services, product design, and manufacturing organization. You will be expected to provide thought leadership, business acumen, as well as hands‑on support to an engineering (hardware and software) focused user community. You will have overall responsibility for the Company’s IT Infrastructure across multiple locations. You will also have responsibility for cybersecurity for the Company.

Responsibilities

• “Owner” of Company’s IT Infrastructure with a focus on secure, scalable and cost-effective solutions.
• Leadership and management of a small IT Infrastructure and Help Desk team (2‑3 people) including hiring, training, mentoring, supervising, etc.
• Support for company-wide applications, Infrastructure and services. Including but not limited to Active Directory, Google Workspace, SolidWorks, Okta, Zoom, CrowdStrike, Arena PLM, QAD,AD, fileserver/storage, firewalls & switches, etc.
• Virtualization environments include Hyper‑V and VMware environments across multiple locations, including sever hardware, storage, configuration, licensing, monitoring, capacity, & performance management.
• Oversee and manage production systems including backups, performance tuning, fault resolution, capacity planning, & root cause analysis across multiple sites, platforms & operating systems.
• Improve the efficiency, ease of management, & performance of the existing infrastructure through discovery, evaluation & testing, and comparing against industry best practices.
• Effectively manage time & priorities. Deliver projects on schedule & communicate issues with teammates proactively.
• Occasionally handle tier‑2‑3 escalated Help Desk tickets.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science, Business, Engineering or equivalent experience required
• Advanced degree highly desirable
• 10+ years experience in an engineering services and product development company
• 10+ years experience supporting a high‑tech manufacturing firm including all shop floor applications and hardware
• 10+ years at a Sr. Manager or higher level
• 10+ years experience supporting Google Workspace across multiple locations for high tech companies
• 10+ years’ experience supporting custom software development and associated tools
• 10+ years of relevant industry experience supporting multiple locations, heterogeneous environments (Windows, Linux, iOS,), etc.
• 10+ years’ experience and demonstrated expert level knowledge of Active Directory including management of, consolidating domains, etc.
• 5+ years’ experience and demonstrated expert level knowledge of VMware
• 5+ years experience managing Okta for SSO and MFA
• 5+ years’ experience supporting Arena PLM
• 5+ years experience managing vendor negotiations and renewals
• 5+ years’ experience managing and supporting Azure, with a focus on moving workloads from on premises to the Cloud
• Prior experience leading an Infrastructure team in a SOX regulated company
• Prior experience supporting an Engineering services organization leveraging SolidWorks across multiple sites
• Prior experience managing Proofpoint or similar solution highly desirable
• Prior experience with Palo Alto Networks (firewalls, Panorama, Global Protect) highly desirable
• Prior experience with Meraki (, wireless) highly desirable
• Prior experience with Cisco switches highly desirable
• Prior experience with Veeam highly desirable
• Prior experience in a PE backed portfolio company highly desirable
• Understanding of what “good looks like” at a larger corporation, with startup “can do” mentality

Strong interpersonal & communications skills.

The person in this position must be able to integrate & communicate clearly & easily with other team members, as well as with end-users at all levels.

Security Clearance Required: N/A

Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government.

Blackstone’s global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998.

Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC.

We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.

EOE of Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabilities