Senior Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Lead Infrastructure Engineer

We are seeking a strategic and hands-on Lead Infrastructure Engineer to lead our client's infrastructure team in delivering robust, secure, and scalable private cloud service. This role will oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of our core infrastructure systems, ensuring high availability and performance across compute, storage, and network environments. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise, strong leadership skills, and a passion for operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of infrastructure engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with peers in support, customer experience, and engineering to ensure the seamless delivery of services to our customers
• Manage the execution of infrastructure projects aligned with business goals and technology roadmap.
• Guide the procurement, installation, and configuration of compute, storage, and networking hardware.
• Oversee the management of hardware, network & storage infrastructure, including Cisco switches, routers, FortiGate firewalls, HPE SANs, and compute Nodes.
• Ensure the stability and performance of Windows Server environments, Remote Desktop Services, including Active Directory (on-prem and Entra ID).
• Drive automation of provisioning, configuration, and routine maintenance tasks using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, and Azure DevOps
• Collaborate with Information Security teams to ensure infrastructure designs meet security and compliance standards (such as SOC 2).
• Proactively enhance monitoring and alerting systems to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation and ensure knowledge sharing across the team.
• Manage a 24x7 on-call rotation and ensure the timely resolution of issues

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 7+ years of experience in datacenter infrastructure roles, with 2+ years in a leadership or managerial capacity.
• Proven track record managing infrastructure in a multi-datacenter environment
• Strong technical background in networking, virtualization, Remote Desktop Services, Windows Server environments, and automation tools or scripting.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Compensation:

Base salary in the range of $140,000–$180,000 CAD, commensurate with experience and skill alignment.