Lead Infrastructure Engineer

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Job Title:

Lead Infrastructure Engineer Reporting To:

Global Infrastructure Engineering Manager

Work Schedule:

Hybrid – Buffalo, NYThe Infrastructure Engineering team leads the technical direction, lifecycle planning, standards, and project delivery across Active Directory, Windows Server, VMware virtualization, Citrix and virtual desktop services, storage, NAS, backup, disaster recovery, and associated infrastructure security and cyber-recovery capabilities.

The Lead Infrastructure Engineer provides senior technical leadership, architecture ownership, and delivery coordination within the team.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role, not a people-manager position. The successful candidate ideally combines deep engineering capability in Active Directory, Citrix and Server technologies with broad infrastructure engineering judgement to set architecture direction, make complex technical decisions, guide work across a distributed team, and translate business demand into an executable roadmap and delivery plan. The role does not require one person to be the deepest subject matter expert in each and every platform;

it requires the technical leadership to integrate domain expertise into a coherent Infrastructure Engineering service.

This hybrid role requires regular onsite presence at our corporate headquarters in East Aurora, New York, in accordance with company requirements.

To be considered for the Lead Infrastructure Engineer role, here’s what you’ll typically need to bring with you:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.

Eight (8) or more years of progressive enterprise infrastructure engineering experience in complex, global environments.

Demonstrated technical leadership experience 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 Power Shell; experience with APIs, Ansible, Terraform, or similar automation and Infrastructure as Code practices is desirable.

Experience with backup, disaster recovery, cyber recovery, or business continuity design.

Strong communication, documentation, stakeholder management, and structured problem-solving skills.

We would also prefer the Lead Infrastructure Engineer to have the following skills and experience:

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.

As a Lead Infrastructure Engineer, you will:

Own the technical roadmap, reference architecture, engineering standards, and lifecycle strategy across Infrastructure Engineering platforms.

Set the technical direction for Active Directory, Windows Server, VMware, Citrix, privileged administration, and infrastructure resiliency capabilities.

Evaluate modernization options, architecture…