Kimball Midwest, a national distributor of maintenance, repair, and operation products, is searching for an Infrastructure and Systems Manager for our Columbus, Ohio, area location.
As a Kimball Midwest associate, you'll be part of a company built on long-term growth and strong values. From $1 million in sales in 1983 to over $500 million today, our success has been driven by our people. Despite our growth, we have stayed true to our family-owned and operated roots—where employees are recognized as individuals and our culture remains a top priority
The Infrastructure and Systems Manager leads the team responsible for the reliability, security, scalability, and recoverability of Kimball Midwest's enterprise infrastructure and systems. This position provides people leadership and technical direction for Systems Administrators and Systems Engineers supporting network, server, storage, backup, virtualization, Microsoft 365, communications, and related platforms across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Lead, develop, and retain a team of Systems Administrators and Systems Engineers by establishing clear expectations, assigning ownership, providing coaching and feedback, and supporting professional development.
- Own the operational health, availability, capacity, performance, recoverability, and lifecycle of enterprise infrastructure and systems services.
- Direct the monitoring and support of network, server, storage, backup, virtualization, Microsoft 365, communications, remote-connectivity, and related infrastructure platforms.
- Provide technical leadership and escalation support for complex incidents, engaging internal teams, vendors, and other resources through resolution.
- Ensure infrastructure incidents, problems, and changes follow established processes for escalation, communication, root-cause analysis, corrective action, documentation, and lessons learned.
- Build and manage infrastructure roadmaps and priorities encompassing modernization, lifecycle management, resilience, capacity, technical debt, and security remediation.
- Partner with IT leadership, Cybersecurity, Architecture, Product teams, Production Operations, and business stakeholders to plan and deliver infrastructure initiatives.
- Ensure infrastructure solutions are designed, implemented, documented, secured, monitored, and maintained to be reliable, supportable, scalable, and aligned with business needs.
- Maintain effective backup, recovery, and disaster-recovery capabilities, including documented recovery procedures and regular testing.
- Manage infrastructure budgets, forecasts, licensing, renewals, vendor relationships, hardware and service investments, and related financial recommendations.
- Establish and continuously improve consistent engineering, operational, documentation, and change-management practices.