Senior Manager - Infrastructure Services

Department: Infrastructure & Security Services
Reports To: Director – Infrastructure & Security Services
Location: Hybrid
Travel: Occasional travel may be required


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Position Summary
The Senior Manager – Infrastructure Services is a hands-on technical leader responsible for the reliability, governance, architectural direction, and modernization of the organization’s server, cloud, network, and datacenter environments.
This role provides leadership and oversight for the Windows Server, Linux Server, Cloud Engineering (Azure & AWS), and Network teams (including consulting partners). The position serves as the technical authority for infrastructure standards, operational maturity, and long-term platform strategy across hybrid and multi-site environments.
Reporting to the Director – Infrastructure & Security Services, this role bridges executive direction and engineering execution by ensuring infrastructure platforms are resilient, secure, cost-effective, and aligned with enterprise transformation initiatives.
The ideal candidate combines deep infrastructure engineering expertise with proven experience leading senior technical professionals and managing complex, hybrid environments.


Key Responsibilities
Infrastructure Leadership & Operational Accountability
• Provide direct leadership for Windows, Linux, Cloud Engineering, and Network teams, including oversight of consultants and contractors.
• Establish and enforce operational standards that promote high availability, resiliency, and consistent service delivery across platforms.
• Drive continuous improvement in infrastructure reliability, incident reduction, and risk mitigation.
• Participate in annual infrastructure and network risk assessments and ensure remediation plans are executed.
• Identify and eliminate architectural weaknesses, including single points of failure and scalability constraints.
• Oversee performance reporting and operational visibility for executive leadership.


Architecture & Modernization Strategy
• Serve as the technical authority for server, network, datacenter, and hybrid cloud architecture.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year infrastructure roadmap covering server, cloud, and network domains.
• Guide modernization initiatives including cloud adoption, segmentation strategies, automation maturity, and resiliency improvements.
• Ensure infrastructure designs align with scalability, security, and long-term sustainability objectives.
• Review and approve significant architectural changes to ensure consistency with enterprise standards.


Cloud Platform Governance (Azure & AWS)
• Provide architectural oversight of Azure and AWS environments, including workload placement, resiliency, and cost optimization.
• Lead cloud governance practices including resource lifecycle management, tagging standards, and financial accountability.
• Conduct regular reviews of cloud resource utilization and spending trends to ensure efficiency and eliminate unnecessary cost.
• Manage cloud engineers and third-party partners to ensure deployments follow architectural and security standards.
• Promote automation and Infrastructure-as-Code practices to improve consistency and reduce operational risk.


Change Governance & Operational Discipline
• Ensure infrastructure and network changes follow documented change management procedures.
• Promote disciplined execution and reduce emergency or unplanned changes.
• Drive accountability for documentation, architectural artifacts, and configuration management.
• Improve change success rates and ensure transparency of infrastructure activity to executive leadership.


Security & Compliance Alignment
• Partner closely with the Security team to ensure infrastructure platforms align with enterprise security policies and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain strong patching, vulnerability remediation, and configuration hygiene practices across server and cloud workloads.