Manager Core Infrastructure -Remote

Manager, Core Infrastructure – Full Time | Fully Remote A rapidly growing, well-capitalized mid-sized financial institution is building a new technology leadership team and investing heavily in modernizing its infrastructure. This is a high-impact opportunity for a seasoned infrastructure leader who wants to shape strategy, modernize systems, and guide a team through a significant transformation. If you’re looking for long-term stability paired with meaningful influence, this role should be on your radar. Employee testimonials: Great company to work for! Many opportunities to grow! Excellent management team! Opportunity to learn and become a better you. This company instills pride and passion into their workers. This company is consistently growing and allows you to grow with them. Co-workers are like family members, many opportunities for career growth, good work is acknowledged.Title: Infrastructure Manager (hybrid cloud) Location: Remote Compensation: $135,000 – 168,000 +BonusThe Manager of Core Infrastructure will lead the engineering team responsible for the backbone of the organization—servers, networks, cloud platforms, storage, telephony, and the systems that keep the business running securely and reliably. You’ll set direction, elevate standards, strengthen resiliency, and push forward modernization efforts across cloud, automation, and infrastructure-as-code. The position is fully remote, but you’ll be deeply connected to the organization’s senior technology leadership and will play a central role in shaping upcoming initiatives.You’ll build and execute an infrastructure roadmap that aligns with growth, modernization needs, and emerging technologies. Your leadership will drive improvements in performance, availability, security, cost optimization, and automation across the environment. Key areas of ownership include:

• Designing and supporting hybrid and cloud environments (primarily Azure)
• Overseeing server, network, storage, virtualization, and telephony platforms
• Ensuring high availability and 24/7 reliability through monitoring and redundancy planning
• Strengthening CI/CD, automation, and infrastructure-as-code practices (Terraform)
• Leading disaster recovery strategy, business continuity, and backup architecture
• Managing vendor relationships, budgets, procurement, and technology evaluation
• Building, coaching, and developing a high-performing infrastructure team
• Collaborating with DevOps, Security, and Application teams on enterprise-wide initiativesThis role calls for a leader with broad, hands-on technical understanding—not just oversight. You’ll need a solid mix of engineering knowledge, architectural thinking, and operational leadership. The ideal candidate brings expertise in areas such as:
• Azure cloud engineering and cloud-native architecture
• Kubernetes/container orchestration and modern CI/CD pipelines
• Terraform and infrastructure-as-code automation
• Virtualization technologies including VMware vSphere/ESXi and Hyper-V
• Deep networking knowledge: TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, firewalls (Palo Alto), load balancing, SD-WAN
• Enterprise telephony/UC: VoIP, SIP, unified communications, contact center platforms
• Monitoring/observability tools like SolarWinds, Datadog, Prometheus, or Splunk
• Enterprise storage (SAN/NAS/RAID), backup platforms (Veeam, Commvault), DR planning
• Scripting/automation with PowerShell, Bash, or PythonWe’re looking for someone who has led teams through modernization, who communicates clearly with both engineers and business stakeholders, and who enjoys balancing hands-on technical insight with strong leadership. You should have a track record of:
• Managing complex infrastructure environments
• Leading cross-functional teams and technical initiatives
• Driving operational excellence, automation, and continuous improvement
• Managing budgets, timelines, vendors, and priorities
• Bringing stability, maturity, and clear communication to a fast-growing organization

You’ll enter at a pivotal moment. The organization is financially strong, rapidly expanding, and fully committed to building a modern, resilient, scalable technology foundation. You’ll have the runway and support to elevate processes, introduce new tools, build a stronger engineering culture, and shape the future of infrastructure. If you’re looking for a long-term role where your leadership is visible, your technical depth matters, and your work directly influences the organization’s trajectory, this is an excellent fit