Infrastructure Team Lead

Overview:

Who we are—

Transcat is a dynamic, innovative, growing company that has been recognized as the leading calibration and compliance services provider in North America and beyond.  With over 1,000 employees—in technical, consulting, operational, sales, finance, and corporate roles—we have stood the test of time by delivering on our Trust in Every Measure promise to our customers in vital industries, including life sciences, aerospace, defense, energy, and utilities.  We fulfill this promise through our employees, who live Our Values every day, the Transcat Way.  Our employees are at the center of the rewarding, challenging, and life-changing work we do for our customers and those they serve.  Are you ready to join a company where the work you do makes a difference, and where you can grow in your career? 

Here’s what Transcat has to offer—

• Work that matters
• A values-based culture where people care about each other and the work they do together
• Flexibility
• Training and development to accelerate learning and career advancement
• Competitive compensation and benefits, including paid time off, health insurance, tuition reimbursement, retirement, stock purchase plan, and MORE!
• Pay range is $90,000 - $120,000

The Infrastructure Team Lead will oversee the day-to-day operations of our Infrastructure team while ensuring the stability, reliability, and performance of our current IT infrastructure. The Infrastructure Team Lead will be a hands-on leader with strong technical expertise and a proven track record of supervising and guiding teams to achieve operational excellence. This position will work closely with our Application Development team and IT Helpdesk to ensure we follow and fulfill enterprise and security architecture best practices and remediate single point of failure and vulnerability risk.

• Documentation, installation, support, and maintenance of Transcat’s network, including (but not limited to): Windows and Linux servers (physical and virtual), SQL servers, AWS environments, Active Directory, Azure, Firewalls, SAN’s, switches, and backups
• Testing and maintenance of disaster recovery plan
• Support internal and Sarbanes-Oxley audit processes
• Providing leadership and direction to the Infrastructure team
• Assigning tasks, monitoring progress, and ensuring timely delivery of projects and operational goals
• Software deployments to Development, Staging, and/or Production environments
• Handle team conflicts, workload balancing, and prioritization of tasks
• Occasional travel to company sites

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to manage and develop staff (coaching and mentoring skills)
• 3+ years working with AWS (Amazon Web Services)
• 3+ years of experience with Systems administration of cloud and on-premise environments
• Ability to work independently
• Strong working knowledge of Linux and common open-source utilities
• Strong working knowledge of Windows Server installation, patching and maintenance
• Working knowledge of SQL server – MS SQL, MySQL, Postgres
• Strong written and verbal communications skills

Education and Experience

• Degree in systems administration, networking or a related discipline
• 3+ years related experience in the following:
• Microsoft 365 products, apps, services, and administration
• Windows and Linux server environments
• DNS/DHCP
• Aruba/Cisco switch configuration/maintenance
• Python, Bash, PowerShell
• VMware vSphere and ESXi
• Veeam B&R
• Firewall configuration/maintenance
• Experience with containers (Docker, ECS/Fargate)

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit and talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Equal Opportunity and Non-Discrimination

Transcat is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination on the basis of any protected status.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, creed, disability, domestic violence victim status, gender identity, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, status as a protected veteran or as a member of any other protected group or activity.

We will make reasonable accommodations for personnel with disabilities to enable them to perform the essential functions of this position unless to do so poses an undue hardship on the company or a direct threat to health and safety.

Contingencies

All offers of employment are contingent upon successfully completing all pre-employment requirements, which include verification of identity and employment eligibility, and when applicable, a motor vehicle driving record report.