Position Summary
Hands-on leader responsible for day-to-day operation, resiliency, and evolution of the company's on-premises and cloud infrastructure supporting 3PL warehouse and corporate operations. Leads a small team of system administrators and database engineering, owns the infrastructure roadmap, and serves as the escalation and decision point for infrastructure architecture, change management, and root-cause analysis.This position is based in the Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) area and requires to be 100% onsite.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead and develop the infrastructure team (system administration, network support, database engineering) and manage day-to-day work priorities
• Provide infrastructure architecture planning across network, cloud (Azure), and security domains
• Own lifecycle management of all IT infrastructure – servers (physical and virtual), hyperconverged platform, storage, backup, and Microsoft 365 / Azure services
• Drive robust change management, troubleshooting, and root-cause identification
• Maintain the infrastructure roadmap with continuous review of resiliency, performance, and capacity
• Manage infrastructure cost, licensing inputs, and coordination of managed-service partners (database managed services, network operations center)
• Support facility onboarding / offboarding and acquisition integration from an infrastructure perspective
Qualifications
• 7+ years of progressive infrastructure operations experience, including 2+ years leading a team or workstream
• Strong Windows Server, Active Directory, virtualization / hyperconverged (e.g., VMware, Dell VxRail), and Azure / Microsoft 365 administration
• 3-5 Years experience managing Microsoft Azure Cloud services centered on infrastructure, architecture, Entra ID, and other essential services.
• Experience with enterprise backup and disaster recovery platforms (e.g., Rubrik) and infrastructure monitoring tools
• Working knowledge of enterprise networking (SD-WAN, firewalls) sufficient to plan and prioritize network work
• Distribution, logistics, or multi-site environment experience preferred; ITIL familiarity preferred
Skills Required
- 7+ years of progressive infrastructure operations experience
- 2+ years leading a team or workstream
- Strong Windows Server administration experience
- Strong Active Directory administration experience
- Experience with virtualization or hyperconverged platforms, such as VMware or Dell VxRail
- Strong Azure and Microsoft 365 administration experience
- 3-5 years managing Microsoft Azure cloud services, infrastructure architecture, Entra ID, and essential services
- Experience with enterprise backup and disaster recovery platforms, such as Rubrik
- Experience with infrastructure monitoring tools
- Working knowledge of enterprise networking, including SD-WAN and firewalls
- Distribution, logistics, or multi-site environment experience
- ITIL familiarity
What We Do
Hayes Company is a Wichita-based logistics and fulfillment provider that helps businesses manage supply-chain needs. It supports manufacturers, importers, retailers, trucking companies, facilities managers and 3PL/4PL providers with supply-chain and warehouse services. Its approach combines volume-handling capability, JIT inventory support, technology, real-time information and personal service to improve logistical efficiency and integrate operations with clients’ systems, aiming to streamline costs and make fulfillment easier.
