Platform Infrastructure Manager

Halifax, NS
Hybrid
Posted Oct 7, 2026
1 position

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Employment type: Full-time
Experience level: Lead · 10+ years
Posting language: English
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Office presence: 2 days per week
Seniority: Mid-Senior level

Job summary

Lead a geographically distributed infrastructure team and own the strategy, architecture, security, availability, and lifecycle of the global infrastructure platform. Drive reliability, incident and problem management, automation, monitoring, transformation initiatives, and infrastructure planning across technologies, vendors, and partner teams.

Job details

Platform Infrastructure Manager Halifax (Hybrid-2 days in office) Our client a dynamic Information Technology services company that partners with leading global organizations to deliver innovative, high-quality IT solutions is looking for a Platform Infrastructure Manager to join their growing team. They are seeking an experienced Platform Infrastructure Manager to lead their global infrastructure platform, ensuring it is secure, resilient, reliable, scalable, and continuously improving. You will lead a geographically distributed team of Infrastructure SMEs and Engineers and provide technical and operational leadership across virtualization, compute, Linux, Windows, identity, storage, and data-centre infrastructure. Responsibilities Lead, develop, and mentor a global team of Infrastructure SMEs and Engineers. Establish technical ownership, standards, roadmaps, and accountability. Own the strategy, architecture, availability, security, and lifecycle of the infrastructure platform. Manage and provide technical leadership across: VMware vSphere / ESXi / vSAN, Proxmox, Ubuntu / Canonical Linux, Windows Server / Active Directory / Group Policy, Microsoft Exchange, Pure Storage and enterprise storage, Physical data-centre infrastructure. Drive infrastructure reliability, capacity, resilience, disaster recovery, and continual improvement. Provide technical leadership during major incidents and drive root-cause and Problem Management. Ensure infrastructure security, vulnerability management, patching, hardening, and compliance. Drive automation using scripting, Infrastructure-as-Code, configuration management, and automated provisioning. Improve monitoring, observability, telemetry, and proactive infrastructure management. Lead infrastructure requirements for major projects and transformation initiatives. Manage technology lifecycles, vendors, capacity planning, budgets, and infrastructure investment. Work closely with Network, Applications, Security, Service Management, and Monitoring teams. Qualifications Significant experience managing enterprise infrastructure environments. Proven experience leading geographically distributed technical teams. Strong experience with VMware/ESXi and Proxmox. Strong Windows Server and Active Directory experience. Experience with Linux/Ubuntu environments. Experience with enterprise storage and data-centre infrastructure. Experience with Microsoft Exchange. Strong understanding of infrastructure security, resilience, availability, and disaster recovery. Experience with Incident, Problem, Change, and Service Management. Demonstrated experience delivering infrastructure transformation and continual improvement. What Success Looks Like You will help transform infrastructure operations from a reactive support function into a proactive, technically led and increasingly automated Platform Engineering organization. Success will include: Improved availability, resilience, and security. Reduced incidents and MTTR. Increased automation and standardization. Improved monitoring and proactive problem detection. Reduced technical debt and configuration drift. Stronger technical SME capability. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing team. The company offers a competitive compensation package, medical & health benefits and RRSP matching. If this sounds like the ideal position for you then apply today!

What you’ll do

Requirements

Requires significant experience managing enterprise infrastructure and leading geographically distributed technical teams, with strong expertise in VMware/ESXi, Proxmox, Windows Server, Active Directory, and Linux/Ubuntu. Candidates should also have experience with enterprise storage, data-centre infrastructure, Microsoft Exchange, security, resilience, disaster recovery, service management, and infrastructure transformation.