Remote Infrastructure Lead | Cloud, Security & Automation

WilkinGuttenplan, P.C.; New York (NJ, NY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k)

Coaching Program

Career growth

Job summary

WilkinGuttenplan, P.C. is seeking an experienced systems and infrastructure engineer to own and lead the firm’s IT environment in New Jersey and NYC.

This hands-on role focuses on design, performance, and reliability, with escalation leadership for internal and client operations in a Microsoft-centered, virtualized environment. You will mentor staff, drive CI/CD support, ensure security and DR readiness, and collaborate with development teams to optimize deployments and automation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in IT infrastructure, systems administration, or systems engineering.
• Deep expertise with Windows Server and Windows desktop OS, Active Directory, and Entra ID.
• Hands-on experience with Hyper-V, including clustering, storage, and virtual network design.
• Strong networking capability (firewall, VLANs, routing, VPN, troubleshooting).
• Microsoft 365 administration (Exchange Online, Teams, Intune, Conditional Access).
• Backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity design and testing.
• Monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning across servers, network, and applications.
• Windows and Linux scripting and automation.
• Working knowledge of database administration, maintaining healthy databases.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tooling and containerization.
• Combination of bachelor’s degree, experience, and/or IT certifications.

Responsibilities

• Own availability, performance, capacity, and lifecycle of the firm’s infrastructure, including virtualization, storage, network, identity, and cloud applications.
• Help set technical direction for infrastructure projects, from design through execution, including vendor and product evaluation, cost input, and implementation planning.
• Serve as the final escalation point for complex technical issues across internal and client environments.
• Lead, develop, and hold accountable the team for infrastructure projects and related support, including direct supervision of a system administrator.
• Own the operational security posture in partnership with IT leadership, including hardening standards, patch and vulnerability remediation, and incident response.
• Own backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity for infrastructure, including testing and documented recovery objectives.
• Build and maintain automation to eliminate recurring manual work.
• Partner with the software development team to support CI/CD pipelines, containerized environments, and application infrastructure.
• Establish and maintain infrastructure documentation, standards, and runbooks as an ongoing discipline rather than a project deliverable.
• Support managed services delivery for external clients, including infrastructure design and escalation support.

Skills

Windows Server

Active Directory

Entra ID

Hyper-V

Networking

Microsoft 365 administration

Backup and DR

Monitoring and capacity planning

Scripting (PowerShell, Bash)

CI/CD tooling

Containerization

Database basics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT / related field

IT certifications

Tools

PowerShell

CI/CD tooling

Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

Job description

WilkinGuttenplan, P.C. is seeking an experienced systems and infrastructure engineer to own and lead the firm’s IT environment in New Jersey and NYC.

This hands-on role focuses on design, performance, and reliability, with escalation leadership for internal and client operations in a Microsoft-centered, virtualized environment. You will mentor staff, drive CI/CD support, ensure security and DR readiness, and collaborate with development teams to optimize deployments and automation.