Infrastructure Manager

Infrastructure Manager

Lakeville Area Schools has an Infrastructure Manager position. This is a 261 day per year position with a salary range of $120,000 - $130,000 depending on experience. The IT Infrastructure Manager oversees the design, implementation, maintenance, and security of the district's network, servers, cloud environments, and communication systems. This role ensures reliable connectivity across all school campuses, administrative buildings, and digital learning platforms. The manager leads a technical team to provide a secure, robust infrastructure that supports 21st-century learning and daily district operations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Strategy

• Manage the Infrastructure Team: Lead, mentor, and evaluate a team of systems/network administrators.
• Manage the infrastructure budget, vendor relationships, and hardware lifecycle.
• Oversee, evaluate & support a Wide Area Network.
• Act as the Tier 3 escalation point for complex technical issues.
• Act as team lead on cross-function technology or district wide projects and initiatives.

Infrastructure & Network Engineering

• Network: Manage and configure networking, routing, switching and wireless.
• Optimize network for high availability, density and real-time application protocols.
• Virtualization: Administer the VM environment, hypervisors, SAN storage and management environment.
• Business Continuity: Oversee backup solutions (e.g., Veeam) and disaster recovery strategy to minimize downtime and ensure continuity.
• Performance & Troubleshooting: Monitor network usage, diagnose system failures, and execute proactive performance upgrades.

Cybersecurity Leadership

• Firewall Management: Act as the primary admin for Firewalls, managing SD-WAN, VPN, and UTM profiles (Web Filtering, IPS, Antivirus) etc.
• Security Frameworks: Develop and enforce a cybersecurity program based on NIST or CIS Controls
• Incident Response (IR): Lead the strategy & response to security threats, perform vulnerability scans, and manage remediation efforts
• Compliance: Ensure the environment meets regulatory standards (e.g., FERPA, HIPAA, or SOC2).

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Education Technology, or a related field (equivalent experience considered). Minimum of 35 years of experience in infrastructure administration, with at least 2 years in a supervisory or team-lead role. Proven experience working within a K-12 educational setting or public sector environment is highly preferred.

About Lakeville Area Schools

Student focused; community connected. Lakeville Area Schools (Independent School District No. 194) is an award-winning school system and the twelfth largest school district in Minnesota serving approximately 12,000 students in Lakeville, parts of Burnsville and Elko New Market, and portions of Eureka, Credit River, and New Market Townships. There are nine elementary schools, three middle schools and two high schools, an area learning center, an online K-12 school, Early Childhood programming, and lifelong learning opportunities through Community Education. Our vision is to inspire a passion for learning in every student with our mission to strive to ensure success for every student personally, socially, academically and civically. We are committed to establishing a school community that values diversity, equity, and inclusivity for all students, staff and families where every person feels welcomed, valued and respected.

Benefits

Lakeville Area Schools offers a range of benefits designed to support the well-being of you and your family. Your benefits may include:

• Paid vacation, personal, and sick leave
• 12 paid holidays each year
• Low-cost medical, dental, vision, prescription drug, and legal insurance plans
• 403(b) retirement investment account offerings with employer matching
• Pension plan that provides income when you retire
• Employer paid life insurance
• Long-term disability insurance
• Tax-free flex spending accounts for health, dental, orthodontic, vision, and dependent care
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for work/life support
• Virtual Fitness Services
• Training, classes, and professional development
• Federal Public Loan Service Forgiveness Program