Job Summary:
As the Infrastructure & Operations Manager, you will be accountable for reliable, secure, supportable infrastructure and operational execution across servers, multi-cloud platforms, backup/recovery, core services, DevOps/platform operations, and multi-site production technology dependencies.
Essential Functions:
- Lead overall IT systems and DevOps engineers; manage priorities, staffing, performance, on call/escalation, and development.
- Own infrastructure availability, capacity, patching, backup/recovery, monitoring, lifecycle, cloud operations, and technical debt reduction.
- Coordinate major incidents, root-cause analysis, changes, maintenance windows, and disaster recovery exercises.
- Ensure infrastructure controls satisfy security and SOC 2 requirements, including access, logging, vulnerability, change, backup, and evidence expectations.
- Maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, inventory, standards, dependencies, and recovery documentation.
- Manage infrastructure/cloud vendors, licensing, costs, and service performance.
- Partners with production/business teams to schedule changes and minimize operational disruption.
- Perform all other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Expert knowledge with infrastructure operations
- Advanced knowledge with people leadership/mentorship, cloud/server/virtualization breadth, backup/DR and resilience, incident/change/problem management, and vendor/cost management
- Demonstrate ownership, sound judgment, integrity, and accountability
- Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Balance security, reliability, cost, user experience, and production requirements
- Follow change, documentation, escalation, and risk-management standards
- Collaborate with IT and business teams and contribute to continuous improvement
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field and five (5) years of related infrastructure, systems administration, cloud operations, or technology operations experience; OR
- Associate degree in a related field and eight (8) years of related infrastructure, systems administration, cloud operations, or technology operations experience.
- Prior experience leading or supervising technical staff, projects, vendors, or operational priorities.
- Experience supporting enterprise infrastructure, including servers, networks, cloud platforms, backup/recovery, monitoring, incident response, change management, and security standards.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, information systems, or a related field, plus five years of related infrastructure, systems administration, cloud operations, or technology operations experience
- Alternatively, an associate degree in a related field plus eight years of related infrastructure, systems administration, cloud operations, or technology operations experience
- Experience leading or supervising technical staff, projects, vendors, or operational priorities
- Experience supporting enterprise infrastructure, including servers, networks, cloud platforms, backup and recovery, monitoring, incident response, change management, and security standards
What We Do
Walsworth is a family-owned commercial printing company serving publishers and businesses with print production for books, magazines and catalogs, as well as scholastic yearbooks. It helps customers take print projects from design through delivery, offering formats and finishes tailored to their needs. The company grew from a 1937 Marceline, Missouri operation and says its mission is to create opportunities through print for its team, customers and communities.
