Responsibilities
- Support and operate enterprise IT infrastructure environments, ensuring performance, availability, and capacity
- Own day-to-day infrastructure operations across servers, virtualization, networking, and cloud platforms
- Partner with engineering, security, and business stakeholders to define infrastructure requirements
- Support infrastructure modernization initiatives, including data center optimization and cloud migration efforts
- Act as a senior escalation point during infrastructure incidents and participate in root-cause analysis
- Provide hands-on L2/L3 support during critical initiatives and high-impact incidents
- Design, document, and support backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions
- Plan and execute patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management activities
- Maintain infrastructure documentation, standards, and operational runbooks
- Manage hardware and software inventory, licensing, and vendor support agreements
- Participate in an on-call rotation and support after-hours activities when required
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members
Required Skills
- 6+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, systems engineering, or operations
- Strong experience supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure environments
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
- Strong knowledge of Windows Server and Linux operating systems
- Experience with virtualization technologies (VMware or equivalent)
- Solid understanding of Active Directory and identity services
- Experience with backup, restore, and disaster recovery technologies
- Working knowledge of networking fundamentals (DNS, DHCP, VPNs, firewalls, routing, switching)
- Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure layers
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Preferred Skills
- Cloud certifications (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
- Experience supporting regulated or highly controlled environments
- Exposure to infrastructure cost management, budgeting, or vendor coordination
- Experience supporting infrastructure modernization or cloud transformation initiatives
- Prior experience acting as a senior technical lead or escalation point
Top Skills
What We Do
Doran Jones Inc. (DJI) is the leading financial services Data Engineering and Application Development firm, specializing in Capital Markets, Risk, and Regulatory Compliance. We are US-based, helping our clients fill gaps in capacity and expertise, reduce risk, and accelerate change. Our leaders average over 25 years of experience in Financial Services and Technology. DJI is repeatedly engaged by the largest and most complex clients for our Agile transformation expertise and practical understanding of the critical relationship between data, architecture, and application development. DJI has a mission to place more people from non-traditional backgrounds into sustainable technology careers. Through partnerships with non-profit technology programs in underserved communities and Veteran organizations, candidates transition from tech training programs into real IT careers at DJI. Our unique recruitment policy allows us to create exceptional teams, bringing a broad spectrum of experience to our company and creating anything but a traditional consulting firm. DJI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of McLaren Strategic Ventures, a private equity firm, that invests in start-ups and scale-ups. They provide a full range of highly trusted domain consulting, advisory services, and innovative technologies globally. Doran Jones is able to offer a broad range of technology, deeper AI and machine learning tools, data intelligence, alternative resourcing capabilities, and capital access to invest and digitize at scale. Our clients benefit from this unique portfolio allowing them to accelerate the pace of their own digital transformations through innovative products and services designed around industry-wide issues.
