IT Manager

IT Manager – Infrastructure & Security

Position at SATO America
. The IT Manager oversees the organization’s hardware, networks, and core infrastructure systems, ensuring secure, high‑availability, and scalable operations that support all business functions.

Oversee the design, deployment, and maintenance of all physical and virtual infrastructure, including servers, storage, network devices, and datacenter equipment. Manage procurement and lifecycle of hardware assets. Ensure redundant and fault‑tolerant architecture. Oversee virtualization and/or containerization infrastructure. Manage connections to cloud infrastructure or network links. Monitor and tune system performance; capacity planning. Coordinate with facilities for data center environment.

• Design, implement, and maintain LAN, WAN, wireless, and remote access infrastructure.
• Configure and manage network security devices (firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPNs).
• Ensure high availability, resilience, and load balancing of network services.
• Monitor network traffic, detect anomalies, address congestion or performance bottlenecks.
• Maintain network diagrams, documentation, and change logs.

• Define, implement, and enforce infrastructure and network security policies and best practices.
• Manage firewall rules, intrusion detection/prevention, vulnerability scanning, security audits, and patch management.
• Oversee system hardening and secure baseline configurations for servers, network devices, and hardware.
• Lead threat detection, incident response, and forensic investigations.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory or industry security standards (PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001).
• Work with external security vendors or auditors on penetration tests, security assessments, and remediation plans.

• Develop, manage, and test backup, restore, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Establish and validate recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO).
• Plan and execute infrastructure failover and disaster recovery exercises.
• Ensure ongoing data integrity, redundancy, and availability.

• Lead and mentor infrastructure and operations staff and contractors.
• Collaborate with software and business systems teams to ensure infrastructure meets their needs.
• Serve as the escalation point for infrastructure outages, performance issues, or security incidents.
• Maintain vendor relationships (hardware vendors, network providers, security tool vendors).
• Define budgets, forecasts, and capital expenditures for infrastructure‑related investments.
• Produce regular reports on infrastructure health, security posture, capacity, and performance.

• Maintain up‑to‑date documentation (network diagrams, infrastructure inventories, configurations, troubleshooting guides).
• Define and enforce infrastructure change control, patch, and maintenance windows.
• Set standards for naming conventions, IP schemes, hardware configurations, and standard operating procedures.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, network, or systems operations.
• 3+ years of direct leadership/management experience.
• Strong hands‑on experience with servers, storage systems, network devices, virtualization, and datacenter operations.
• Deep knowledge of networking protocols (TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, VLANs, MPLS, VPNs).
• Proven experience in infrastructure security, firewalls, IDS/IPS, network segmentation, vulnerability management.
• Experience with backup, replication, disaster recovery planning, and execution.
• Familiarity with cloud connectivity or hybrid infrastructure setups.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal, written) and ability to interface with non‑technical leadership.

• Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCNP / CCIE, VMware VCP, or similar.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, automation tools (Ansible, Terraform).
• Prior experience operating in regulated industries or compliance frameworks.
• Experience…