IT Infrastructure Manager

Founded in 1965, Prometheus is the largest privately held owner of apartments in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a portfolio of over 13,000 apartments in the Silicon Valley, Portland, and Seattle regions. We invest in real estate long-term and the focus on enduring quality drives every element of what we do - from our selection of locations to design decisions, reinvestments into our Neighborhoods and our operating strategy.

We are proud to be a Certified B Corporation, part of a group of companies that meets the highest standards for using business as a force for good. We have more than 500 Prometheans, and have a home office in San Mateo, with satellite offices in Portland, Oregon, and in the Bay Area. We are a vertically integrated company with four main core competencies in-house: acquisitions/investments, development, value‑add renovations, and operations/property management.

Prometheus has a long history of award‑winning approaches to what we do, receiving over 100 awards for design and excellence including Fortune Magazine’s list of 100 Best Small & Medium Companies, the 100 Best Workplaces for Women and Best Places to Work in the Bay Area.

We are focused on Good Living for the Greater Good. This means providing a true sense of home and belonging for our Neighbors and Prometheans and giving our time and resources to bring positive change locally and beyond. It also means supporting you in your career goals with the very best working experience, and that starts with us having fun in the work we do together.

Our IT Team is looking for an experienced IT Infrastructure Engineer Manager responsible for leading and developing the Infrastructure Engineering team while serving as a hands‑on technical authority across enterprise infrastructure. This role combines deep technical expertise, team leadership, and project management to ensure infrastructure services are reliable, scalable, and secure.

• Leadership & Team Development – Lead, mentor, develop and manage all Infrastructure Engineers (I, II, III) by fostering a culture of technical excellence and accountability. You know how to build a good working relationship both in person and remotely to support performance and communicate technical and operational standards. You demonstrate leadership skills by defining team goals, managing workloads, conducting performance reviews, and inspire confidence in your team.
• Infrastructure Strategy – Oversee and guide the architecture, deployment, and lifecycle management of servers & OS, networking, Active Directory & IAM, virtualization & storage, SaaS applications. You serve as the escalation point for complex technical issues and ensure proactive monitoring, automation, and capacity planning are in place. You are a key driver in the planning direction by defining and maintaining the infrastructure roadmap for modernization, automation, and resilience.
• Project & Program Management – Lead infrastructure projects from requirement gathering through implementation, ensuring they are delivered on time, in scope, and within budget. You have the ability to influence key stakeholders by defining project objectives, collecting resources needed, communicating milestones, and providing status reporting. You demonstrate skills in managing risks and communicating through cross‑collaborative teams and IT leadership to successfully deliver projects.

Our IT Infrastructure Manager possesses the following experience, skills and abilities and be able to explain and demonstrate that they can perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation, using some other combination of knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, or related technical field is required. With a master’s degree in IT management, cybersecurity, or related field preferred.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in management, leading a team of technical engineers with strong leadership and communication skills.
• Minimum 8 years of progressive IT infrastructure experience.
• Hands on experience with servers, networking, storage, virtualization, AD,…