Infrastructure Team Manager

Overview

• We are seeking an experienced IT/Lab Manager to lead the planning, deployment, and operations of our physical lab environment and IT systems.
• This role will focus on building and maintaining scalable, reliable, and secure environments to support engineering teams involved in research, quality assurance, validation, and related activities.
• It will also support internal collaborators.
• You will have an outstanding opportunity to drive innovation in a multidimensional, technology-focused company that is crafting the future of data-center and lab technologies.
• If you bring perfection and creative thinking while solving issues as they arise, and enjoy working with distributed teams – your place is with us! What You’ll Be Doing: Own day-to-day operations, planning, and roadmap for the engineering lab and IT infrastructure (servers, storage, networking, and related services).
• Lead and mentor an IT/Lab team, driving guidelines, standards, and a culture of ownership, partnership, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate closely with R&D, QE, Verification, and other engineering teams to design, provision, and maintain environments that meet their performance, reliability, and security needs.
• Lead all aspects of running data center and lab operations, including rack layout, cabling, power and cooling, hardware lifecycle, and resource availability.
• Lead procurement and vendor management for hardware, software, and services, including evaluation, negotiation, and ongoing relationship management.
• Implement and maintain automation for system provisioning, configuration, and operations using tools such as shell/Perl/Ansible.
• Design and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting for servers, network, and storage systems to ensure high availability and rapid incident response.
• Investigate and resolve sophisticated infrastructure issues across OS, networking, storage, virtualization, and application layers.
• What we need to see: B.Sc.
• or BA in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 10 years of overall experience in IT / systems administration, including extensive hands-on work with Linux/Unix environments.
• At least 3 years of experience in a managerial or team-lead position within IT, lab, or infrastructure teams.
• Vast experience with Linux/Unix system administration, including installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Demonstrable experience collaborating with engineering organizations (R&D, QE, Verification, etc.) and supporting their infrastructure needs.
• Solid experience with data center and lab management, including server, network, and storage equipment deployment and lifecycle.
• Demonstrated experience in procurement and vendor management for infrastructure hardware and software.
• Proficiency in automation and scripting (e.g., shell, Perl, Ansible) for provisioning, configuration, and operational tasks.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and alerting solutions for infrastructure and services.
• Strong debugging skills and experience resolving complex, cross-domain technical issues.
• Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd: Experience with Kubernetes (K8s) in on-prem or hybrid environments.
• Hands-on work with Slurm, HPC clusters, and large-scale compute environments.
• Background in HPC, large-scale Linux clusters, or performance-sensitive engineering environments.