IT Infrastructure Specialist Senior Consultant
$97,000–$146,000 year
On-siteSalt Lake City, Utah, United States
Job Summary
Facilitate project work plans, establish scope, and manage staffing for IT infrastructure engagements while mentoring interns and consultants. Identify risks and efficiency opportunities across integrated solutions spanning infrastructure, networking, and cloud platforms. Translate business and compliance requirements into actionable technical solutions, including disaster recovery architecture and vendor management. Document complex environments, create dependency maps, and oversee application rationalization initiatives. Lead teams through decision-making on project deliverables and methodologies, fostering open communication and team development.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., CIS, IS or related field)
- 2+ years working in professional services or industry
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite applications with specific emphasis on Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Secondary emphasis on Visio and Access
- Professional Certification such as Microsoft Azure preferred
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with or understanding of: Implementing IT systems spanning multiple operational domains (infrastructure, applications, network, cloud/on‐prem)
- Understanding of current enterprise design patterns and norms for basic networking capabilities/concepts (e.g. TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLAN segmentation, routing and switching, wireless)
- Proven ability to document and rationalize complex or undocumented environments, including creation of dependency maps, architecture diagrams, and system inventories
- Conducting application rationalization and dependency mapping initiatives
- Recent hands-on experience administrating both Windows Server and Linux operating systems
- Implementing or administering enterprise backup, replication, and continuity solutions for servers, storage, and applications
- Skilled in capacity planning, performance analysis, and VM/server right‐sizing
- Familiarity with SMB-scale, on-premises infrastructure technologies
- Working familiarity with hypervisor platforms (e.g. VMware vSphere/ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, or others)
- Enterprise network design, deployment, and administration experience
- Background working with major enterprise networking and security vendors such as Cisco, Meraki, HPE/Aruba, Juniper, Extreme, Brocade, Palo Alto, and Fortinet
- Ability to translate business, compliance, vendor, and partner requirements into actionable technical solutions and system configurations
- Experience converting business continuity and disaster recovery requirements into technical architecture and implementation plans
- Integrating IT systems in post‐merger or acquisition environments
- Coordinating with and managing third‐party hardware, software, and service vendors
- Evaluating, summarizing, organizing, and interpreting data
- Supervisory experience of teams including mentoring, oversight and review of work, coordination across teams, and understanding how to motivate
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