Onsite Infrastructure Team Lead – Azure & Windows

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

Job summary

Hayes Co. in the Dallas–Fort Worth area is seeking an hands-on Infrastructure leader to supervise day-to-day operations, resiliency, and evolution of on‑premises and cloud infrastructure supporting 3PL warehouse and corporate operations.

100% onsite; leads a small team of system administrators and database engineers and owns the infrastructure roadmap and change management. The role requires managing servers, hyperconverged platforms, storage, backup, and M365/Azure services, plus architecture

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

Infrastructure operations

Team leadership

Azure administration

VMware / VxRail

Microsoft 365 administration

Backup & DR (Rubrik)

Networking (SD-WAN, firewalls)

Tools

Azure Cloud

VMware

Rubrik

VxRail

Microsoft 365

Job description

Hayes Co. in the Dallas–Fort Worth area is seeking an hands-on Infrastructure leader to supervise day-to-day operations, resiliency, and evolution of on‑premises and cloud infrastructure supporting 3PL warehouse and corporate operations.

100% onsite; leads a small team of system administrators and database engineers and owns the infrastructure roadmap and change management. The role requires managing servers, hyperconverged platforms, storage, backup, and M365/Azure services, plus architecture