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As a leading clean energy technology company, we're helping businesses, communities, utilities, and data centers meet growing energy demands with reliable, always-on power solutions.\nWith nearly a gigawatt of fuel cell platforms deployed worldwide, we're accelerating the transition to a more resilient energy future. Join a team of innovators, problem-solvers, and industry pioneers who are tackling some of the world's most complex energy challenges while shaping the next generation of sustainable power.\nYour work here won't just power facilities. It will help power the future.\nThe pay for this position ranges from $135000 - $150000.\nOverview\nWe are currently seeking an experienced Infrastructure Lead to join our Global Infrastructure team to own and advance FuelCell Energy’s global IT infrastructure. Reporting to the CIO, this role leads the infrastructure team and translates business needs into a practical, modern infrastructure roadmap across on-premises, cloud, manufacturing, and operational (OT) environments. This is a hybrid position based in Danbury, CT, with regular onsite presence to facilitate collaboration with cross-functional teams, support operational systems, and help ensure the reliability, security, and performance of our infrastructure.\nThe Infrastructure Lead combines hands-on technical depth, project leadership, and forward-looking architecture to improve reliability, scalability, performance, resilience, and operational efficiency across corporate offices, manufacturing facilities, cloud environments (Azure), and OT systems. The role partners closely with Cybersecurity to ensure infrastructure solutions meet established security, risk, and compliance requirements.\nResponsibilities:\nLead the infrastructure team, establish priorities, assign work, remove obstacles, coach team members, and build the technical capability needed to support current operations and future growth.\nCreate and maintain a multi-year infrastructure strategy and roadmap aligned with business priorities, site requirements, lifecycle risk, and the company’s modernization goals.\nLead the design, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of hybrid infrastructure spanning on-premises systems and modern cloud services (Azure).\nOwn infrastructure architecture and lifecycle planning for servers, virtualization, storage, backup and recovery, cloud platforms, networking, switches, wireless, firewalls, identity-related infrastructure dependencies, and core infrastructure services.\nLead complex infrastructure projects from discovery and requirements through architecture, business case, planning, implementation, transition to operations, and benefits realization.\nDrive modernization by reducing technical debt, standardizing platforms, increasing automation, improving observability, and adopting cloud services where they provide clear business and operational value.\nEnsure infrastructure services are resilient, monitored, documented, supportable, and recoverable, with clear ownership, service expectations, capacity planning, and lifecycle standards.\nLead incident response and problem management for major infrastructure issues, coordinate technical recovery, communicate business impact, and ensure root causes and corrective actions are addressed.\nDevelop and test infrastructure disaster recovery and continuity capabilities in partnership with business, application, cybersecurity, and site stakeholders.\nEstablish and enforce infrastructure engineering standards, architecture patterns, change control, configuration management, documentation, and operational procedures.\nPartner with Cybersecurity on secure architecture, vulnerability remediation, access controls, segmentation, logging, and compliance requirements while maintaining clear accountability for infrastructure delivery and operations.\nManage infrastructure vendors and service providers, including technical evaluation, scoping, performance oversight, licensing, renewals, and cost optimization.\nProvide concise, decision-ready updates on project status, service health, risks, costs, dependencies, and recommended actions to IT leadership and business stakeholders.\nQualifications:\nEducation: Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related discipline.Extensive experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.\nPreferred certifications include Microsoft Azure, networking, virtualization, IT service management (ITIL), infrastructure architecture, or a comparable credential.\nExperience:\nEight or more years of progressive infrastructure experience, including leading technical teams and enterprise infrastructure projects in hybrid IT and OT environments.\nCandidate must have demonstrable knowledge/experience in:\nLeading infrastructure teams and creating accountability, priorities, standards, and development plans.\nDesigning, operating, and modernizing hybrid infrastructure across on-premises data centers and Microsoft Azure or comparable cloud platforms.\nServer operating systems, virtualization, storage, backup and recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, and infrastructure monitoring.\nEnterprise networking, including LAN, WAN, wireless, routing, switching, DNS, DHCP, VPN, internet connectivity, and firewall platforms.\nCloud infrastructure architecture, governance, identity and connectivity dependencies, automation, cost management, resilience, and operational support models.\nInfrastructure as code, scripting, configuration automation, or orchestration practices that improve consistency and reduce manual effort.\nPlanning and delivering complex, cross-functional infrastructure projects with clear scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, costs, and operational handoff.\nTechnology lifecycle management, capacity planning, technical debt reduction, platform standardization, and vendor management.\nIT service management practices, including incident, problem, change, configuration, and service continuity management.\nSecurity standards, such as NIST CSF and IEC 62443, and how they influence secure infrastructure design.\nExcellent communication skills with the ability to create clear documentation and communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders.\nStrong judgment, structured problem-solving skills, and attention to detail.\nPhysical Requirements/Working Conditions: \nWork is performed in office, manufacturing, data center, and warehouse environments and involves the use of a computer and other office equipment.\nAbility to wear required personal protective equipment (PPE), including safety glasses, safety shoes, hard hats, and other PPE as designated.\nAbility to access infrastructure equipment in data rooms, manufacturing areas, and other site locations as required.\nOccasional travel to company locations and availability outside of core business hours for planned maintenance or critical infrastructure events may be required.\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nFuelCell Energy is an equal-opportunity employer committed to an inclusive and safe work environment for people of all backgrounds.\nWe offer a competitive compensation package as well as comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, company-paid life/disability insurance, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase plan, and generous paid leave.\nThe successful candidate is required to complete a drug screen, criminal background check, and employment and education verification.\nFuelCell Energy, Inc. is committed to ensuring that its application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all U.S. job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an application, please send an email with your resume to  or contact us by calling 860-496-2222. Please indicate the specifics of the assistance needed.\nNOTE: This dedicated phone line and email address are designed exclusively to assist disabled job seekers whose disability prevents them from being able to apply online. Only messages left for this purpose will be acknowledged. A response to your request may take up to two business days.\nNo agency submissions please. Resumes submitted to any FuelCell Energy employee without a current, signed and valid contract in place with the FuelCell Energy Recruiting team for this position will become the property of FuelCell Energy and no agency fees will be paid.\nFor more information about FuelCell Energy and our available openings, please visit our website: https://www.fuelcellenergy.com/careers\nWe thank all candidates for their interest in a career with FuelCell Energy. 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