Infrastructure Leader: Strategy, Cloud & Security

Alterman, Inc.; Town of Texas, Northern (WI, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Alterman, Inc. is seeking a Manager, Infrastructure to lead our technology infrastructure program across corporate offices and active construction sites.

You will direct a team of professionals, own the strategy and roadmap, manage budgets and vendor relations, and ensure regulatory and industry compliance. The role requires strong leadership, advanced certifications, and the ability to balance on-site field work with enterprise technology.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or related field preferred; equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.
• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, network engineering, systems engineering, or related technology disciplines.
• 3+ years of infrastructure management or leadership experience.
• Cisco CCNP, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or an equivalent senior-level technical certification required.
• Additional certifications preferred (e.g., CCIE, Azure Administrator Associate, Nutanix NCP, VMware VCP, ITIL Foundation, PMP).
• Deep familiarity with compliance frameworks required (NIST, CMMC, SOC 2).
• Demonstrated ability to perform technical infrastructure work across multiple disciplines (network, server, virtualization, cloud, storage).

Responsibilities

• Leads the Infrastructure team, including supervision, mentoring, training, performance management, and career development of direct reports.
• Sets individual goals and priorities, assigns work, and holds the team accountable to committed delivery dates and quality standards.
• Recruits, develops, and retains infrastructure talent, and builds succession depth across the team.
• Manages the on-call rotation, workload balance, and escalation paths for infrastructure incidents.
• Serves as the senior escalation point and final technical authority when the team cannot resolve an issue.
• Fosters a culture of documentation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Oversees the enterprise server, virtualization, storage, and cloud architecture, and approves the designs and standards the team implements.
• Evaluates and selects infrastructure platforms and tools for new and existing systems, applications, and facilities.
• Directs automation of provisioning, configuration management, and patching, and sets the standards it is built to.
• Reviews capacity, performance, and architecture assessments, and decides the ranked remediation plan.
• Oversees the enterprise network architecture and standards, including routing and switching, firewalls, wireless, VPN, and network segmentation.
• Directs connectivity for corporate offices, construction job sites, and remote workers, including carrier and circuit management.
• Leads technology buildout for new regional offices and construction job sites, including on-site assessment, structured cabling, circuits, wireless coverage, and field infrastructure.
• Governs network configuration baselines and change control, and is the final authority on complex connectivity and performance escalations.
• Owns availability, monitoring, and incident response for all infrastructure systems.
• Develops and maintains business continuity and disaster recovery plans, including documented recovery point and recovery time objectives.
• Directs recovery testing on a defined cadence and reports results to leadership.
• Governs change management for all infrastructure changes.
• Develops, implements, and maintains the enterprise infrastructure strategy, standards, and multi-year technology roadmap aligned with business objectives.
• Manages the infrastructure operating budget and capital plan, including forecasting, hardware lifecycle and refresh planning, and spend accountability.
• Manages vendor relationships, service levels, contract review, and renewal negotiation.
• Maintains a strictly ranked project portfolio, sets delivery dates, and reports status, risk, and slippage.
• Reports infrastructure posture, operational risk, and program effectiveness to executive leadership.
• Partners with business stakeholders across departments to plan infrastructure for growth, new locations, and new systems.
• Stays current with emerging technologies and industry best practices.
• Owns the infrastructure side of the company's compliance obligations, and partners with Cybersecurity to implement and maintain the NIST CSF 2.0 configuration baseline.
• Directs closure of identified control gaps on infrastructure systems and provides audit evidence for CMMC, SOC 2, and NIST activities.
• Maintains the infrastructure risk picture, including single points of failure, end-of-life systems, and remediation plans.
• Supports identity and access management, including role-based access and joiner, mover, and leaver automation.
• Owns infrastructure vulnerability remediation and patching commitments, and reports progress against them.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Executive communication

Vendor management

Project management

Scripting & automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/IS

Tools

Nutanix AHV

VMware vSphere

Hyper-V

Microsoft Azure

Intune

Microsoft 365

Job description

Alterman, Inc. is seeking a Manager, Infrastructure to lead our technology infrastructure program across corporate offices and active construction sites.

You will direct a team of professionals, own the strategy and roadmap, manage budgets and vendor relations, and ensure regulatory and industry compliance. The role requires strong leadership, advanced certifications, and the ability to balance on-site field work with enterprise technology.