Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Moog•Buffalo, NY

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Lead Infrastructure Engineer provides senior technical leadership, architecture ownership, and delivery coordination for Moog’s Infrastructure Engineering team. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, not a people-manager position. The role sets technical direction and integrates expertise across Active Directory, Windows Server, VMware virtualization, Citrix and virtual desktop services, storage, NAS, backup, disaster recovery, infrastructure security, and cyber-recovery capabilities. It translates business demand, technical risks, lifecycle requirements, and security priorities into architecture direction, roadmaps, and executable delivery plans. Regular onsite presence is required at the company’s headquarters in East Aurora, New York, as part of a hybrid schedule. The position maintains hands-on engineering ownership of global Active Directory and related Windows infrastructure, while serving as the technical authority for Citrix and providing architecture leadership across virtualization, storage, backup, and recovery services. It guides cross-domain designs and delivery, supports complex escalations and major incidents, mentors engineers, and coordinates work across distributed engineering and partner teams. The role also leads technical planning and delivery coordination for Program Increment work, including scope, sequencing, dependencies, effort assumptions, risks, and capacity trade-offs. It maintains the technical quality of work tracked in Azure DevOps and communicates technical status, risks, decisions, and roadmap recommendations to stakeholders and leadership.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
Eight or more years of progressive enterprise infrastructure engineering experience in complex, global environments.
Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple infrastructure domains, including architecture decisions, design governance, project delivery, and technical mentoring.
Advanced Active Directory engineering experience, including global multi-domain or multi-forest environments, DNS, Group Policy, authentication protocols, domain controller lifecycle, security, and recovery.
Citrix engineering and architecture experience supporting enterprise virtual application and desktop environments.
Strong Windows Server engineering and architecture background, including operating system lifecycle, hardening, automation, and troubleshooting.
Strong experience with VMware vSphere or comparable enterprise virtualization platforms, including availability, lifecycle, capacity, and recovery considerations.
Working knowledge of enterprise storage, NAS, backup, disaster recovery, and cyber-recovery practices, with the ability to lead cross-domain architecture and delivery discussions.
Experience designing secure infrastructure, privileged administration, tiered administration, and CIS-aligned hardening approaches.
Hands-on automation experience with PowerShell.
Experience with backup, disaster recovery, cyber recovery, or business continuity design.
Strong communication, documentation, stakeholder management, and structured problem-solving skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience with APIs, Ansible, Terraform, or similar automation and Infrastructure as Code practices.
Experience with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, Citrix DaaS, Citrix ADC, virtual GPU workloads, or equivalent enterprise end-user computing technologies.
Experience supporting mergers and acquisitions, data center migrations, OT infrastructure, or regulated and compliance-sensitive environments.
Experience working within ITIL, Agile, SAFe, or similar delivery practices.
Relevant Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, security, or cloud certifications.

Responsibilities

Own the technical roadmap, reference architecture, engineering standards, and lifecycle strategy across Infrastructure Engineering platforms.
Set technical direction for Active Directory, Windows Server, VMware, Citrix, privileged administration, and infrastructure resiliency capabilities.
Evaluate modernization options, architecture trade-offs, technical debt, security risk, capacity, supportability, and total operational impact.
Establish design reviews, architecture decision records, technical standards, and reusable engineering patterns.
Provide senior technical escalation support for complex cross-platform issues and major incidents.
Coach engineers in design, troubleshooting, implementation, documentation, and operational transition; promote practical knowledge transfer to reduce key-person dependency.
Maintain hands-on engineering ownership of global Active Directory and related Windows infrastructure, including forests and domains, DNS, Group Policy, LDAP, Kerberos, replication, delegation, and domain controller lifecycle.
Design secure authentication, authorization, and privileged administration models aligned with corporate security and compliance requirements.
Lead Active Directory modernization and optimization, technical debt reduction, and recovery-readiness initiatives.
Define Windows Server engineering standards, operating system lifecycle plans, CIS-aligned hardening approaches, and remediation priorities.
Partner with Cyber Security and Infrastructure Operations on identity security controls, vulnerability remediation, audit evidence, and resilient management environments.
Serve as the Infrastructure Engineering technical authority for Citrix and virtual desktop/application services.
Lead Citrix architecture, modernization, security, resilience, performance, and lifecycle management.
Define technical patterns for Citrix use cases, virtual desktop infrastructure, application delivery, graphics-enabled workloads, remote access, and end-user experience improvements.
Lead complex Citrix design and implementation work, including solution assessments, architecture reviews, capacity planning, resilience, documentation, and operational handoff.
Coordinate with business, application, security, network, and operations stakeholders to ensure Citrix solutions are secure, supportable, and aligned with business demand.
Provide architecture leadership across VMware and enterprise virtualization platforms, storage, NAS, backup, disaster recovery, and cyber-recovery services, including lifecycle planning, resilience, capacity, availability, and modernization.
Lead technical integration of infrastructure services across Active Directory, Windows, Citrix, virtualization, storage, backup, networking, and recovery environments.
Support disaster recovery and cyber-resiliency design, recovery testing, recovery environments, data protection, and infrastructure continuity planning.
Guide server hosting, data center migration, M&A, and strategic infrastructure transformation work involving multiple infrastructure domains.
Work with specialized engineers on implementation while retaining accountability for cross-domain design, technical risk, and delivery quality.
Convert business demand, technical risk, lifecycle requirements, and security priorities into a multi-PI Infrastructure Engineering roadmap.
Lead technical planning for Program Increment work, including scope definition, sequencing, dependencies, effort assumptions, risk management, and capacity trade-offs.
Maintain the technical quality of Infrastructure Engineering work tracked in Azure DevOps by structuring features and backlog items, clarifying acceptance criteria, identifying dependencies, reviewing status, and driving resolution of blockers.
Coordinate engineering resources across Active Directory, Citrix, virtualization, Windows, Linux, storage, NAS, backup, disaster recovery, operations, and partner teams to deliver committed work.
Provide concise technical status, risks, decisions, and roadmap recommendations to leadership and stakeholders.