Infrastructure Manager

The Intersect Group; Kennesaw (GA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Part time

Job summary

A staffing and recruiting firm is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Lead to design and operate the core IT infrastructure. This role involves owning the Azure architecture and strategy, implementing cloud solutions, and providing technical leadership to teams. The ideal candidate will have over 7 years of experience in infrastructure roles, extensive knowledge of Azure, and strong troubleshooting skills. This position offers a competitive salary and a contract employment type.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in infrastructure engineering or administration roles.
• Deep experience with Azure technologies including IaaS and PaaS.
• Proven ability to resolve complex incidents.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall infrastructure strategy and roadmap.
• Architect and implement Azure Landing Zones.
• Operate and maintain infrastructure services.

Skills

Azure experience

Networking fundamentals

Technical leadership

Deep troubleshooting

Microsoft 365 experience

Job description

Infrastructure Lead

We are seeking a highly hands‑on Infrastructure Lead to design, build, and operate the core IT infrastructure for a newly separated and growing environment. This role owns the Microsoft‑based target architecture and the execution plan to transition away from the legacy KGP environment, working in close partnership with Group IT Security (CISO), an external infrastructure consultant, and the KGP IT team.

Base Pay Range

$130,000.00/yr - $160,000.00/yr

What You’ll Do

Strategy & Technical Leadership

• Own the overall infrastructure strategy and roadmap across cloud, on‑prem, network, storage, backup, and endpoints, aligned with business and security priorities.
• Define and maintain infrastructure standards, architectural patterns, and best practices for availability, performance, security, and scalability.
• Own and apply the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), including identity, networking, security, governance, landing zone design, and platform automation.
• Apply the Microsoft Well‑Architected Framework across security, reliability, cost optimization, performance efficiency, and operational excellence.
• Serve as the primary infrastructure point of contact for IT leadership, security, application teams, and business stakeholders.
• Provide technical leadership and informal mentoring to a small team of engineers/administrators and external partners, including design and configuration reviews.

Design & Implementation (Very Hands‑On)

• Architect and implement Azure Landing Zones, including VNets, subnets, firewalls, hybrid connectivity, and security controls.
• Build and operate Azure IaaS and PaaS services across compute, storage, networking, and platform services.
• Define and implement Azure management group and subscription hierarchy, resource group standards, naming/tagging conventions, and Azure Policy baselines.
• Implement and operate core identity and directory services including Microsoft Entra ID, hybrid Active Directory, Conditional Access, MFA, PIM, device‑based access controls, and application integrations.
• Lead infrastructure components of major initiatives such as environment separation, new site deployments, migrations, and security programs.

Operations & Support

• Perform advanced troubleshooting across networks, servers, cloud resources, storage, and backups, owning issues end‑to‑end through resolution and root‑cause analysis.
• Operate and maintain infrastructure services, including patching, upgrades, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Implement and run monitoring, alerting, and logging; proactively identify and resolve issues before business impact.
• Participate in and help define on‑call rotations and incident response processes for critical infrastructure events.

Security, Reliability & Governance

• Partner closely with security teams to implement and enforce Zero Trust principles, least privilege, hardening, firewalling, VPN, and endpoint protections.
• Design and operate backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities appropriate to the organization’s risk profile.
• Implement and operate Microsoft security tooling including Defender for Cloud, Defender for Endpoint, Conditional Access, and PIM.
• Ensure infrastructure changes follow defined change management processes and are clearly documented.
• Contribute to and enforce infrastructure‑related policies, standards, and operating procedures.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Work closely with application, data, and service desk teams to ensure infrastructure meets service and availability requirements.
• Produce high‑quality documentation including architecture diagrams, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides.
• Identify opportunities for automation and standardization using scripting and infrastructure‑as‑code approaches.

What You Bring

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive experience in infrastructure engineering or administration roles.
• Deep, hands‑on experience with Azure (IaaS/PaaS), including Landing Zones, VNets, VPNs, peering, firewalls, NSGs, private endpoints, and monitoring.
• Microsoft 365/Modern Workplace experience, including Entra ID, Intune, Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, and endpoint security.
• Core infrastructure services: hybrid AD, DNS, DHCP, certificates, file services, backup and DR.
• Networking fundamentals and advanced troubleshooting (routing, switching, VLANs, VPNs, firewalls, wireless).
• Demonstrated experience designing and operating secure, highly available, and scalable environments.
• Proven ability to own and resolve complex incidents from diagnosis through remediation.
• Experience providing technical leadership to peers or small teams (formal or informal).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a greenfield environment, merger/separation, or rapid transformation where standards and platforms were built from the ground up.
• Familiarity with automation and infrastructure‑as‑code (PowerShell, Terraform, etc.).
• Practical exposure to security frameworks and concepts such as Zero Trust and least privilege.
• Experience working within ITIL‑based processes and ITSM tools.

Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

Contract

Job Function

Information Technology

Industry

Staffing and Recruiting