The Intersect Group · 22 hours ago
Infrastructure Manager
Kennesaw, GA
Contract
Onsite
Senior Level
$130K/yr - $160K/yr
7+ years expThe Intersect Group is seeking a highly hands-on Infrastructure Lead to design, build, and operate the core IT infrastructure for a newly separated and growing environment. This role involves defining the infrastructure strategy and standards while personally implementing and operating the new environment across various platforms including cloud, network, and security.
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Responsibilities
Own the overall infrastructure strategy and roadmap across cloud, on-prem, network, storage, backup, and endpoints, aligned with business and security priorities
Define and maintain infrastructure standards, architectural patterns, and best practices for availability, performance, security, and scalability
Own and apply the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), including identity, networking, security, governance, landing zone design, and platform automation
Apply the Microsoft Well-Architected Framework across security, reliability, cost optimization, performance efficiency, and operational excellence
Serve as the primary infrastructure point of contact for IT leadership, security, application teams, and business stakeholders
Provide technical leadership and informal mentoring to a small team of engineers/administrators and external partners, including design and configuration reviews
Architect and implement Azure Landing Zones, including VNets, subnets, firewalls, hybrid connectivity, and security controls
Build and operate Azure IaaS and PaaS services across compute, storage, networking, and platform services
Define and implement Azure management group and subscription hierarchy, resource group standards, naming/tagging conventions, and Azure Policy baselines
Implement and operate core identity and directory services including Microsoft Entra ID, hybrid Active Directory, Conditional Access, MFA, PIM, device-based access controls, and application integrations
Lead infrastructure components of major initiatives such as environment separation, new site deployments, migrations, and security programs
Perform advanced troubleshooting across networks, servers, cloud resources, storage, and backups, owning issues end-to-end through resolution and root cause analysis
Operate and maintain infrastructure services, including patching, upgrades, capacity planning, and performance optimization
Implement and run monitoring, alerting, and logging; proactively identify and resolve issues before business impact
Participate in and help define on-call rotations and incident response processes for critical infrastructure events
Partner closely with security teams to implement and enforce Zero Trust principles, least privilege, hardening, firewalling, VPN, and endpoint protections
Design and operate backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities appropriate to the organization’s risk profile
Implement and operate Microsoft security tooling including Defender for Cloud, Defender for Endpoint, Conditional Access, and PIM
Ensure infrastructure changes follow defined change management processes and are clearly documented
Contribute to and enforce infrastructure-related policies, standards, and operating procedures
Work closely with application, data, and service desk teams to ensure infrastructure meets service and availability requirements
Produce high-quality documentation including architecture diagrams, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides
Identify opportunities for automation and standardization using scripting and infrastructure-as-code approaches
Qualification
Required
7+ years of progressive experience in infrastructure engineering or administration roles
Deep, hands-on experience with Azure (IaaS/PaaS), including Landing Zones, VNets, VPNs, peering, firewalls, NSGs, private endpoints, and monitoring
Deep, hands-on experience with Microsoft 365 / Modern Workplace, including Entra ID, Intune, Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, and endpoint security
Deep, hands-on experience with core infrastructure services: hybrid AD, DNS, DHCP, certificates, file services, backup and DR
Deep, hands-on experience with networking fundamentals and advanced troubleshooting (routing, switching, VLANs, VPNs, firewalls, wireless)
Demonstrated experience designing and operating secure, highly available, and scalable environments
Proven ability to own and resolve complex incidents from diagnosis through remediation
Experience providing technical leadership to peers or small teams (formal or informal)
Preferred
Experience in a greenfield environment, merger/separation, or rapid transformation where standards and platforms were built from the ground up
Familiarity with automation and infrastructure-as-code (PowerShell, Terraform, etc.)
Practical exposure to security frameworks and concepts such as Zero Trust and least privilege
Experience working within ITIL-based processes and ITSM tools
Company
The Intersect Group
The Intersect Group is a staffing and recruiting company that provides staffing and consulting services.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2017-03-31Private Equity
Leadership Team
Joe Myers
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Snyder
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
2022-07-06
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