Onsite Infrastructure Lead - Azure, VMware & DR Ops

Hayes Company LLC; Mesquite (TX); On-site; USD 131,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Hayes Company LLC is seeking a Hands-on leader to manage the day-to-day operation, resiliency, and evolution of the company's on-premises and cloud infrastructure supporting 3PL warehouse and corporate operations.

You will lead a small team of system administrators and database engineering, own the infrastructure roadmap, and serve as the escalation and decision point for infrastructure architecture, change management, and root-cause analysis.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive infrastructure operations experience, including 2+ years leading a team or workstream.
• Strong Windows Server, Active Directory, virtualization / hyperconverged (e.g., VMware, Dell VxRail), and Azure / Microsoft 365 administration.
• 3-5 Years experience managing Microsoft Azure Cloud services centered on infrastructure, architecture, Entra ID, and other essential services.
• Experience with enterprise backup and disaster recovery platforms (e.g., Rubrik) and infrastructure monitoring tools.
• Working knowledge of enterprise networking (SD-WAN, firewalls) sufficient to plan and prioritize network work.
• Distribution, logistics, or multi-site environment experience preferred; ITIL familiarity preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the infrastructure team (system administration, network support, database engineering) and manage day-to-day work priorities.
• Provide infrastructure architecture planning across network, cloud (Azure), and security domains.
• Own lifecycle management of all IT infrastructure – servers (physical and virtual), hyperconverged platform, storage, backup, and Microsoft 365 / Azure services.
• Drive robust change management, troubleshooting, and root-cause identification.
• Maintain the infrastructure roadmap with continuous review of resiliency, performance, and capacity.
• Manage infrastructure cost, licensing inputs, and coordination of managed-service partners (database managed services, network operations center).
• Support facility onboarding / offboarding and acquisition integration from an infrastructure perspective

Skills

Windows Server

Active Directory

Virtualization / Hyperconverged

Azure / Microsoft 365 administration

Infrastructure monitoring

Networking (SD-WAN, firewalls)

Tools

Rubrik

VxRail

Azure Cloud Services

Job description

Hayes Company LLC is seeking a Hands-on leader to manage the day-to-day operation, resiliency, and evolution of the company's on-premises and cloud infrastructure supporting 3PL warehouse and corporate operations.

You will lead a small team of system administrators and database engineering, own the infrastructure roadmap, and serve as the escalation and decision point for infrastructure architecture, change management, and root-cause analysis.