Senior Infrastructure Lead — Windows, Cloud & DR

WilkinGuttenplan; East Brunswick Township (NJ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

WilkinGuttenplan is seeking an experienced Systems and Infrastructure Engineer to own the environment for the firm and clients. This hands-on leadership role will define the design, performance, and reliability of the infrastructure, and serve as the escalation point for the IT team in a primarily Microsoft-based environment.

You will lead the team, set technical direction, and collaborate with development to support CI/CD, containerized infrastructure, and automation, while ensuring security

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in IT infrastructure, systems administration, or systems engineering.
• Deep expertise with Windows Server and Windows desktop operating systems, Active Directory, and Entra ID.
• Hands-on experience with Hyper-V, including clustering, storage, and virtual network design.
• Strong networking capability, including firewall configuration, VLANs, routing, VPN, and troubleshooting.
• Microsoft 365 administration, including Exchange Online, Teams, Intune, and 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, with the ability to keep database platforms healthy and performing.
• Comfortable with CI/CD tooling and containerization technologies.

Responsibilities

• Own the 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

Leadership

Mentoring

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent IT certifications

Tools

Windows Server

Windows Desktop OS

Active Directory

Entra ID

Hyper-V

Networking

VLANs

VPN

CI/CD tooling

Containerization

PowerShell / scripting

Monitoring

Database administration

Job description

WilkinGuttenplan is seeking an experienced Systems and Infrastructure Engineer to own the environment for the firm and clients. This hands-on leadership role will define the design, performance, and reliability of the infrastructure, and serve as the escalation point for the IT team in a primarily Microsoft-based environment.

You will lead the team, set technical direction, and collaborate with development to support CI/CD, containerized infrastructure, and automation, while ensuring security