Senior Infrastructure Administrator – Multi-Site IT Ops

Kalmbach Feeds Inc; Upper Sandusky (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Kalmbach Feeds Inc is seeking a Senior Systems Administrator to lead planning and deployment of infrastructure across multiple sites in Upper Sandusky, OH. The role translates business needs into reliable site designs, covering servers, virtualization, networks, and security systems.

The position requires 7+ years in infrastructure and a relevant degree, with project coordination across facilities, cybersecurity, and vendors. On-site work with occasional on-call support is expected.

Qualifications

• Associate or bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field, or at least seven years of progressively responsible experience across infrastructure, systems administration, network engineering, or IT operations in a multi-site environment.
• Experience planning and implementing infrastructure for new sites, expansions, renovations, and significant modifications to existing facilities.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise servers, virtualization, switches, wired and wireless networks, structured cabling, access points, UPS systems, printers, monitoring, backups, and recovery. Familiarity with Cisco DNA Center, VMware, Microsoft SQL Server preferred.
• Experience coordinating contractors, procurement, licensing, and vendor management within project schedules.

Responsibilities

• Plan and implement infrastructure for new plants, warehouses, offices, and other sites, as well as expansions, renovations, and technology modifications at existing locations.
• Develop site infrastructure designs, bills of materials, estimates, implementation plans, technical standards, schedules, testing procedures, and turnover documentation.
• Coordinate infrastructure requirements and delivery with construction teams, facilities, operations, Cybersecurity, Service Desk, Business Systems, vendors, contractors, and local site contacts.
• Design, configure, install, test, document, and support servers, virtual machines, switches, networks, structured cabling, wireless access points, and related connectivity.
• Plan and deploy uninterruptible power supplies, time clocks, cameras, physical security systems, and other site technology components.
• Assess existing sites, identify infrastructure gaps and lifecycle risks, and recommend practical upgrades that improve reliability, security, capacity, standardization, and supportability.
• Define equipment placement, rack layouts, power and UPS requirements, cabling paths, wireless coverage, network segmentation, addressing, and connectivity needs for each site.
• Configure monitoring, alerting, backups, and recovery capabilities; verify successful backups and test recovery procedures for deployed infrastructure.
• Apply cybersecurity, patching, configuration, privileged-access, logging, segmentation, licensing, and lifecycle standards to all site implementations.
• Manage assigned project tasks, dependencies, risks, costs, vendors, procurement activities, and implementation milestones; communicate status, issues, and recovery plans promptly.
• Perform site-readiness reviews, installation oversight, validation testing, cutovers, and post-implementation support to ensure infrastructure is operational before business use.
• Maintain accurate diagrams, inventories, configurations, procedures, support documentation, warranties, and lifecycle records for deployed systems.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues, lead root-cause analysis within assigned work, implement corrective actions, and transfer knowledge to support teams.
• Participate in a shared, rotating on-call schedule to respond to infrastructure incidents and support business-critical operations outside normal working hours.

Skills

Infrastructure planning

Site deployment

Troubleshooting

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in IT or related field

Tools

Cisco DNA Center

VMware

Microsoft SQL Server

Job description

Kalmbach Feeds Inc is seeking a Senior Systems Administrator to lead planning and deployment of infrastructure across multiple sites in Upper Sandusky, OH. The role translates business needs into reliable site designs, covering servers, virtualization, networks, and security systems.

The position requires 7+ years in infrastructure and a relevant degree, with project coordination across facilities, cybersecurity, and vendors. On-site work with occasional on-call support is expected.