Infrastructure Lead/Platform Owner

Job summary

The Infrastructure Lead/Platform Owner is tasked with enhancing the operational maturity of the infrastructure team by establishing ownership, accountability, and automation standards. This role involves leading infrastructure planning across Linux, Windows, private cloud, and container platforms, while managing disaster recovery, security controls, and incident response processes to ensure high availability and reliability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in infrastructure, platform engineering, systems engineering, DevOps, private cloud operations, or enterprise IT operations.
• Strong experience leading production infrastructure in mature enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of Linux and Windows Server environments.
• Proven experience building or operating private cloud / virtualization platforms.
• Experience with HA, backup, DR, incident management, and RCA.
• Strong understanding of security-first infrastructure operations.

Responsibilities

• Own infrastructure architecture, standards, governance, and operational maturity.
• Lead infrastructure planning across Linux, Windows, private cloud, application servers, networking, security, containers, and business systems.
• Define and enforce infrastructure operating standards.
• Review major infrastructure and production changes before implementation.
• Lead technical decisions for availability, scalability, monitoring, security, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Ensure manual recurring work is converted into automation backlog items.
• Define virtualization standards, VM lifecycle policies, template standards, backup standards, and capacity planning models.
• Oversee platforms such as VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox, OpenStack, Nutanix, Azure Stack, or similar.
• Define containerization standards for Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Helm, registries, image scanning, secrets, namespaces, RBAC, and resource limits.
• Design and maintain high-availability infrastructure.
• Own backup validation, restore testing, and disaster recovery planning.
• Oversee infrastructure security controls across Windows, Linux, private cloud, containers, network, application servers, CRM, ERP, SharePoint, and Microsoft 365.
• Lead major production incidents and coordinate technical response.
• Provide technical guidance to systems, application server, and DevOps engineers.

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