Manager, Infrastructure Engineering
Vera Bradley•Roanoke, IN
•Onsite
About The Position
The Manager, Infrastructure Engineering is responsible for leading the design, implementation, and operation of enterprise infrastructure systems while guiding a team of system administrators to deliver secure, stable, and scalable solutions. This role blends deep technical expertise with team leadership, owning both the hands-on architecture and engineering outcomes as well as the day-to-day operational performance of infrastructure services.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 7+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering or systems engineering
- 1+ years of experience in a technical leadership or team lead role required; 3+ years preferred
- Strong experience across: Networking (LAN/WAN, VPN, firewalls) preferred
- Compute (on-prem and cloud platforms)
- Storage and virtualization
- Experience designing and supporting highly available infrastructure systems
- Experience with automation and modern infrastructure practices preferred
- Strong understanding of: Monitoring and performance tuning
- Backup and disaster recovery
- Security and vulnerability management
- Strong technical problem-solving and decision-making capabilities
- Ability to lead through influence and drive execution across teams
- Clear communicator, able to translate technical concepts for business stakeholders
- Ownership mindset with focus on outcomes, stability, and continuous improvement
Nice To Haves
- Networking (LAN/WAN, VPN, firewalls) preferred
- Experience with automation and modern infrastructure practices preferred
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and support of infrastructure systems across network, compute, storage, and cloud environments
- Architect infrastructure solutions to ensure 24x7x365 availability, security, and performance aligned to business objectives
- Establish and maintain infrastructure standards for configuration, security, and scalability
- Drive adoption of automation, monitoring, and modern infrastructure practices (e.g., infrastructure-as-code where applicable)
- Own delivery of infrastructure capabilities supporting enterprise applications and product teams
- Partner with product and application teams to design and implement infrastructure solutions for new and existing services
- Lead capacity planning to ensure infrastructure performance during peak periods and future growth
- Design, implement, and validate backup, restore, and disaster recovery solutions
- Oversee day-to-day infrastructure operations to ensure reliability, uptime, and service quality
- Lead troubleshooting of complex performance, availability, and system issues
- Ensure proactive monitoring, patching, and vulnerability remediation across systems
- Partner with Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to execute operational support while maintaining accountability internally
- Ensure infrastructure systems adhere to security and compliance standards (e.g., SOX, PCI)
- Monitor, scan, and remediate vulnerabilities across infrastructure systems
- Support enterprise disaster recovery and business continuity strategies
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of infrastructure engineers and administrators
- Provide technical coaching and hands-on guidance in architecture and problem solving
- Establish clear ownership, accountability, and execution standards
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and operational excellence
- Partner with Product, Security, and Business teams to enable scalable and secure solutions
- Translate business needs into infrastructure designs that support growth and innovation
- Communicate risks, tradeoffs, and priorities clearly to leadership
- Execute against the infrastructure roadmap, including: Stabilization of current environment, Security uplift, Infrastructure modernization
- Contribute to operating model decisions (internal vs. external capabilities)
- Support vendor strategy and MSP integration
Benefits
- Variety of medical, dental and vision programs
- Medical plan options including both a HDHP/HSA plan and a PPO plan
- Dental
- Vision
- Flexible spending accounts
- Life insurance provides peace of mind for your family should the unexpected happen.
- Employer provided 2X your salary in life insurance
- Accidental Death and "Disability" insurance
- Voluntary life insurance for you, your spouse and your children
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- The Vera Bradley 401k plan helps you accumulate savings for retirement
- 401k with generous company match, immediate vesting (age and service requirement)
- Strong line up of professionally managed funds
- Safe-harbor plan design
- Generous time off programs.
- Earn up to 3 weeks of paid time off in your first year of employment with opportunity to earn more
- 9 paid holidays a year
- Paid bereavement leave
- Opportunity to serve your community.
- Voluntary Time Off
- Holistic Wellness
- Access to a variety of financial, physical, and mental wellness experts
- Employee Assistance Program with access to work/life wellness support including no cost unlimited telephonic counseling services
- Opportunities for leadership development, skill development and career advancement
- Generous employee discount on Vera Bradley products
- Bonus opportunity
- identity protection
- legal services
- pet insurance
- cell phone discount
- employee referral bonus
- annual birthday gift
- DailyPay
- corporate fitness facility
- individual policies through Aflac
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
Associate degree
