IT Systems Manager (Enterprise Infrastructure)

Leprino Foods Company•Denver, CO

1d•$122,000 - $140,000•Onsite

About The Position

Leprino is hiring an IT Systems Manager within its Corporate IT team in Denver to lead the infrastructure teams and technology platforms supporting enterprise and manufacturing operations. The role oversees critical systems across U.S. and European facilities and supports approximately 1,800 servers. It combines technical expertise and people leadership to modernize infrastructure, strengthen reliability, and coordinate internal engineers and external technology partners in maintaining secure, resilient operations. The manager oversees enterprise compute, storage, virtualization, backup, and recovery infrastructure; guides architecture, standards, and modernization across data centers, plant environments, and hybrid-cloud platforms; and leads VMware modernization and migrations. The role also maintains Windows and Linux environments and infrastructure supporting ERP systems, industrial automation, and critical business applications. It coordinates incident response, recovery planning, monitoring, maintenance, and lifecycle management, evaluates emerging technologies, and partners across IT and manufacturing teams. The position includes developing infrastructure investment plans and overseeing budgets, vendor contracts, and technology expenditures, as well as communicating performance, risks, and priorities to leadership and business partners.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
Eight years of professional experience in IT infrastructure, systems engineering, or enterprise infrastructure operations.
Two years of experience supervising or leading technical teams, including coordinating engineering resources and external service providers.
Experience supporting enterprise virtualization, Windows/Linux server environments, storage infrastructure, backup and recovery, and data center operations.
Experience coordinating infrastructure projects, system upgrades, or technology migrations.
Availability for occasional travel to manufacturing facilities.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting large-scale VMware environments, including infrastructure upgrades, architecture planning, and enterprise virtualization modernization.
Experience with enterprise storage and backup technologies such as Pure Storage, NetApp, Fibre Channel SAN, or Rubrik.
Experience supporting infrastructure in manufacturing environments, including systems connected to ERP platforms, industrial automation, and geographically distributed facilities.
Experience with public-cloud platforms, container technologies, disaster recovery testing, infrastructure automation, or cloud financial management.

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and develop infrastructure engineers; coordinate managed service providers, vendors, and internal IT partners.
Oversee enterprise compute, storage, virtualization, backup, and recovery infrastructure supporting corporate and manufacturing operations.
Guide infrastructure architecture, technology standards, and modernization plans across data centers, plant environments, and hybrid-cloud platforms.
Lead VMware modernization, including upgrades to version 8 and planning for version 9, coordinating migrations, readiness, and operational continuity.
Maintain Windows and Linux environments, enterprise storage platforms, and infrastructure supporting ERP systems, industrial automation, and critical business applications.
Coordinate incident response, root-cause investigations, infrastructure maintenance, and corrective actions to minimize interruptions and strengthen system resilience.
Develop and test disaster recovery strategies, backup procedures, and business continuity capabilities to restore critical services.
Establish practices for infrastructure monitoring, capacity planning, patching, vulnerability remediation, and technology lifecycle management.
Evaluate public-cloud services, container technologies, automation, and AI-enabled monitoring to improve infrastructure reliability and operational efficiency.
Partner with cybersecurity, networking, applications, and plant IT teams to coordinate changes, strengthen security, and support manufacturing technology.
Develop infrastructure investment plans, forecast hardware and licensing requirements, and oversee budgets, vendor contracts, and technology lifecycle expenditures.
Communicate infrastructure performance, modernization progress, service risks, and investment priorities to IT leadership and business partners.