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That covers the servers, networking, storage, and security infrastructure that supports our operations-not customer colocation environments.\nYou’ll manage the team that handles day-to-day administration, monitoring, patching, and incident response across all production sites. When something breaks at 2 AM, your team is the one that gets the call. When we need to plan capacity for the next round of site launches, you’re the one building that plan. This is a hands-on leadership role-you need to be close enough to the technology to make good calls, and experienced enough as a manager to build and run a reliable team.\nWhat You’ll Own\nProduction Infrastructure Operations\nServer and compute: Oversee administration of Windows Server, VMware/Nutanix virtualization clusters, and associated storage environments across all production sites.\nNetwork operations: Own the health and performance of the production network-switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, and WAN connectivity. Coordinate with the design team on changes and upgrades.\nMonitoring and alerting: Make sure monitoring tools are configured, thresholds are tuned, and alerts go to the right people. Reduce noise so the team can focus on what matters.\nDirectory and identity services: Manage Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and identity/access management across the environment.\nBackup and recovery: Own the backup strategy and make sure restores actually work. Run periodic recovery tests-don’t wait for a real disaster to find out.\nSecurity Operations\nIncident triage: Serve as the escalation point for security alerts from EDR/MDR tools. Make sure threats are investigated, contained, and resolved-not just acknowledged.\nPatching and vulnerability management: Run the patching cycle across servers, network gear, and endpoints. Track vulnerabilities, prioritize based on actual risk, and close them out on a schedule.\nFirewall and access control: Ensure firewall rules, WAF configurations, and access policies stay current and hardened. Clean up stale rules regularly.\nCompliance alignment: Work within established security frameworks (NIST, CIS, or whatever Compass adopts) and support audit and compliance activities as needed.\nPlanning and Lifecycle Management\nCapacity planning: Track utilization across compute, storage, and network resources. Forecast needs based on site launch schedules and growth.\nLifecycle management: Maintain a hardware and software lifecycle plan. Know what’s approaching end-of-life, what needs to be refreshed, and when.\nBudget ownership: Own the IT operations budget. Track spend against forecast, manage renewals, and make the case for capital when it’s needed.\nSite onboarding: Receive new sites from the construction/design team after commissioning. Validate that systems are built to standard and ready for production support.\nTeam and Vendor Management\nDirect management: Lead a team of systems and network administrators. Set clear expectations, run regular 1:1s, do real performance reviews, and invest in developing your people.\n On-call and coverage: Build and maintain an on-call rotation that provides 24/7 coverage without burning the team out.\nVendor relationships: Manage relationships with hardware, software, and support vendors. Own contract renewals, escalations, and service-level accountability.\nIncident management: Run the incident response process for major outages. Lead root cause analysis after the fact and make sure corrective actions actually get implemented.\nWhy us?\nCompass is committed to its core convictions and key principles. We look for people who believe there’s a different way to deliver great projects and can easily adapt to change in a quickly growing organization. We strive to create great partnerships with our clients, contractors and supply chain partners through transparent communications, humble and curious collaboration, and a zealous focus on consistent execution of the most important 20%.\nLet us learn about you! Apply today.\nCompass is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.\nCompass is committed to an inclusive culture, and we celebrate and value diverse insights and perspectives. To continue to soar on our rocket ship, we need talent from various backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities. 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