Manager IT Infrastructure

MITER Brands•Harrisburg, PA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

MITER Brands is seeking a hands-on Manager, IT Infrastructure to lead and unify infrastructure operations across a multi-site manufacturing enterprise. This role sits at the center of on-prem infrastructure ownership—servers, storage, virtualization, networking, data centers, and security—and plays a critical part in standardizing how infrastructure is designed, operated, and supported across the organization. This is a working manager role. You’ll lead a distributed team of engineers and administrators while remaining deeply technical—designing, troubleshooting, and improving infrastructure in a hybrid environment that includes on-prem data centers, hosted providers, and public cloud integrations.

Requirements

Strong hands-on experience in enterprise on-prem infrastructure
Deep knowledge of: Microsoft Active Directory & Windows Server
Deep knowledge of: Storage, virtualization, and hypervisors (Nutanix highly preferred)
Deep knowledge of: Networking fundamentals and performance troubleshooting
Deep knowledge of: Data center operations (power, cooling, physical infrastructure)
Experience managing lifecycle planning, capacity planning, and infrastructure scaling
Proven ability to lead engineers while remaining technically involved
Experience supporting audits, security initiatives, and infrastructure compliance
Vendor management and procurement experience

Nice To Haves

Manufacturing or multi-site enterprise experience strongly preferred

Responsibilities

Lead and support the IT Infrastructure team (6 direct reports) across multiple data centers and locations
Own lifecycle management for data center infrastructure including servers, storage, hypervisors, networking, power, and cooling
Drive standardization of: Operating system configuration
Drive standardization of: Server patch management
Drive standardization of: Infrastructure build and deployment practices
Design, implement, and support hyper-converged infrastructure, with an emphasis on Nutanix (VMware to Nutanix migration in progress)
Maintain and evolve enterprise services including: Active Directory and Microsoft Server services
Maintain and evolve enterprise services including: Linux server environments
Maintain and evolve enterprise services including: Storage and virtualization platforms
Ensure infrastructure availability, performance, scalability, and security
Support security audits and compliance initiatives for infrastructure systems
Manage infrastructure projects end-to-end: planning, prioritization, execution, and delivery
Oversee vendor relationships, contracts, renewals, and capital purchasing (>$2.5M spend)
Coach and develop infrastructure team members, aligning skills with core initiatives
Take full ownership of production systems, including monitoring, documentation, and knowledge sharing (ServiceNow)