Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Strategic Technology Planning

About The Role: We are looking for a unique set of skills:

• A collaborative influential leader
  • Exhibits strong influence leadership, guiding teams and stakeholders without direct reporting authority
  • Strong experience in creating & cultivating partnerships with leaders from various lines of business, Vendors, Internal partners
  • Professionally challenges decisions by leveraging policy, data, and sound judgement
  • Keeps critical initiatives on track through proactive follow-up and stakeholder accountability
• A strong engineering background
  • Data center operations / Site Manager background
  • Accountable for managing a small group of technology rooms (third party colocation edge sites) as part of an on call 24/7 rotation, in partnership with a team of senior infrastructure engineers
  • Accountable for supporting Infrastructure builds, expansion, and modernization projects including core and backbone network device installations, refreshes, and circuit migrations that support increased capacity and performance
• Someone who enjoys the creation and delivery of training materials and process documentation
  • Writing training and procedure documentation engineers will use daily
  • Updating our operating model playbooks
  • Leading our transformation to automation using AI

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of Technology Infrastructure Engineering and Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 5+ years of Technology Strategic Leadership experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 5+ Data Center or Technology Hosting experience with Third Party Vendor Managed Colocation sites

Desired Qualifications

• Provide approvals and feedback on current processes, procedures, and standards to facilitate efficiency, consistency, and effectiveness of our products
• Partner regularly with Security, Properties, Network, and others to deliver on annual business Objectives & Key Results (OKR's) for our hosting environments
• Collaborate to provide innovative engineering solutions to product leads, Kanban leads, and Scrum Masters to execute on product delivery
• Assist with establishing and maintaining Service Level Agreement (SLA), Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), and Data Center operation framework
• Lead and partner on automation and data tools initiatives to further streamline support tools such as Jira, Service Now, Confluence, Nlyte, and more
• Collaborate on metrics and reporting for global staff that quantify service level achievement, resource consumption, growth, related to RTB/CTB (Run the Bank & Change the Bank) activities, using Power BI
• General understanding of cloud technologies and experience in managing or migrating services to the cloud
• Familiarity with or interest in Power BI
• Microsoft Copilot, AI tools, or generative AI experience
• Microsoft 365 suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, SharePoint)

About Our Team Satellite Site Management (SSM):

• The DCHS Satellite Site Management Team (SSM) is part of the broader Data Center organization.
  We provide focused technology and operational support for a diverse portfolio of technology hosting environments (200sq ft - 25,000sq ft.) supporting the Small and Edge product model sites across the U.S.
  Key functions and services:
• Virtual and Local Site Management
• Asset and Capacity Management
• Access Management
• Risk Management & Mitigation
• Technology Portfolio Governance & Guidance
• Product Engineering, Automation & Reporting
• Change Management & Scheduling
• Event / Issue Management / Troubleshooting
• Relationship Management
• Vendor Management
• Site Builds & Site Exits
• Consulting

Posting End Date:
12 Apr 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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