Infrastructure & Microsoft Cloud Platform Lead

Overview

Infrastructure & Microsoft Cloud Platform Lead

Job Location s: US-GA-Kennesaw

Requisition :

Category:
Information Technology

Job Post Information*:
Posted Date: 4 hours ago (1/23/2026 10:35 AM)

Circet USA is the leading provider of Network Services in North America, and we re looking for talented professionals to join our team. We specialize in engineering and construction services delivering comprehensive solutions across Inside Plant, Outside Plant, and Wireless networks to meet the evolving infrastructure needs of our customers.

With nearly 50 years of industry experience, we work with major telecom service providers, MSOs, cloud service providers, and utilities. At Circet USA, you ll have the opportunity to make an impact by helping to create customized solutions that address our clients  unique challenges. If you re passionate about innovation and thrive in a dynamic environment, we d love to hear from you.

Circet USA s benefits package includes the following:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• Digital Health & Wellness Support
• Critical Illness, Accident, & Hospital Insurance
• Short-term & Long-term disability
• Group term & Voluntary life insurance
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
• Paid Time Off & 401K
• Company Discount Website

Circet USA s IT is currently largely supported by its sister company, KGP Telecommunications. Circet Group has a strategy to build an independent IT team for Circet USA.

The Infrastructure Lead is responsible for designing the Microsoft-based target architecture for this new environment and the project plan to move away from the legacy environment, in accordance with the project team (the group CISO, an infrastructure consultant, the KGP IT team). This role will then be responsible for implementing and operating this new core IT infrastructure, executing the split and transitioning other acquisitions to this environment.

This role combines technical leadership, day-to-day oversight of infrastructure services, and significant hands-on engineering work across network, servers, cloud, and end-user platforms. This role establishes Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 as the core enterprise platforms for infrastructure, identity, collaboration, security, and endpoint management.

The ideal candidate is comfortable defining strategy, standards, and governance while also rolling up their sleeves to build, configure, and support systems directly.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned:

Competencies summary:

• Azure:
  IaaS/PaaS, Landing Zones, networking (VNets, VPN, peering), security (NSGs, Firewall, Private Endpoints), monitoring.
• Microsoft 365:
  Entra , Conditional Access, MFA, PIM, Intune, Defender, Exchange Online security.
• Systems: hybrid AD, DNS, DHCP, certificates, backup and DR.
• Networking: strong fundamentals, firewalls, advanced troubleshooting.
• Security:
  Zero Trust, least privilege, hardening.
• Operations: run, complex incident handling, patching, documentation.
• Automation:
  Power Shell, basic IaC exposure.
• Profile: very hands-on, autonomous, structured, executes a defined framework without reinventing it.

Strategy and leadership

• Own the overall infrastructure strategy and roadmap (on-prem, cloud, network, storage, backup, endpoints) in alignment with business and security priorities.
• Define infrastructure standards, patterns, and best practices for availability, performance, security, and scalability.
• Own the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) for Circet USA, including identity, networking, security, governance, landing zone design and platform automation aligned with Microsoft best practices.
• Apply the Microsoft Well-Architected Framework to platform and workload designs across security, reliability, cost optimization, performance, and operational excellence.
• Define and maintain Azure and Microsoft 365 architectural standards for all new workloads and acquisitions.
• Act as the primary infrastructure point of contact for IT leadership, security, applications, and business stakeholders.
• Provide technical leadership to a small team of engineers/administrators and any external…