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Our people enjoy solving interesting technical challenges in a culture where everyone trusts each other to do the right thing. For you, working with us can mean deeper job satisfaction, better rewards, and a great quality of life inside and outside of work.\nJob Title:\nLead Infrastructure EngineerReporting To:\nGlobal Infrastructure Engineering ManagerWork Schedule:\nHybrid - Buffalo, NYThe Infrastructure Engineering team leads the technical direction, lifecycle planning, standards, and project delivery across Active Directory, Windows Server, VMware virtualization, Citrix and virtual desktop services, storage, NAS, backup, disaster recovery, and associated infrastructure security and cyber-recovery capabilities.\nThe Lead Infrastructure Engineer provides senior technical leadership, architecture ownership, and delivery coordination within the team.\nThis is a hands-on technical leadership role, not a people-manager position. The successful candidate ideally combines deep engineering capability in Active Directory, Citrix and Server technologies with broad infrastructure engineering judgement to set architecture direction, make complex technical decisions, guide work across a distributed team, and translate business demand into an executable roadmap and delivery plan. The role does not require one person to be the deepest subject matter expert in each and every platform; it requires the technical leadership to integrate domain expertise into a coherent Infrastructure Engineering service.\nThis hybrid role requires regular onsite presence at our corporate headquarters in East Aurora, New York, in accordance with company requirements.\nTo be considered for the Lead Infrastructure Engineer role, here’s what you’ll typically need to bring with you:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.\nEight (8) or more years of progressive enterprise infrastructure engineering experience in complex, global environments.\nDemonstrated technical leadership experience across multiple infrastructure domains, including architecture decisions, design governance, project delivery, and technical mentoring.\nAdvanced Active Directory engineering experience, including global multi-domain or multi-forest environments, DNS, Group Policy, authentication protocols, domain controller lifecycle, security, and recovery.\nCitrix engineering and architecture experience supporting enterprise virtual application and desktop environments.\nStrong Windows Server engineering and architecture background, including operating system lifecycle, hardening, automation, and troubleshooting.\nStrong experience with VMware vSphere or comparable enterprise virtualization platforms, including availability, lifecycle, capacity, and recovery considerations.\nWorking knowledge of enterprise storage, NAS, backup, disaster recovery, and cyber-recovery practices, with the ability to lead cross-domain architecture and delivery discussions.\nExperience designing secure infrastructure, privileged administration, tiered administration, and CIS-aligned hardening approaches.\nHands-on automation experience with PowerShell; experience with APIs, Ansible, Terraform, or similar automation and Infrastructure as Code practices is desirable.\nExperience with backup, disaster recovery, cyber recovery, or business continuity design.\nStrong communication, documentation, stakeholder management, and structured problem-solving skills.\nWe would also prefer the Lead Infrastructure Engineer to have the following skills and experience:\nExperience with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, Citrix DaaS, Citrix ADC, virtual GPU workloads, or equivalent enterprise end-user computing technologies.\nExperience supporting mergers and acquisitions, data center migrations, OT infrastructure, or regulated and compliance-sensitive environments.\nExperience working within ITIL, Agile, SAFe, or similar delivery practices.\nRelevant Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, security, or cloud certifications.\nAs a Lead Infrastructure Engineer, you will:\nOwn the technical roadmap, reference architecture, engineering standards, and lifecycle strategy across Infrastructure Engineering platforms.\nSet the technical direction for Active Directory, Windows Server, VMware, Citrix, privileged administration, and infrastructure resiliency capabilities.\nEvaluate modernization options, architecture trade-offs, technical debt, security risk, capacity, supportability, and total operational impact.\nEstablish design reviews, architecture decision records, technical standards, and reusable engineering patterns.\nProvide senior technical escalation support for complex, cross-platform issues and major incidents.\nCoach engineers through design, troubleshooting, implementation, documentation, and transition to operations; reduce key-person dependency through practical knowledge transfer\nMaintain strong hands-on engineering ownership of global Active Directory and related Windows infrastructure, including forests and domains, DNS, Group Policy, LDAP, Kerberos, replication, delegation, and domain controller lifecycle.\nDesign secure authentication, authorization, and privileged administration models that align with corporate security and compliance requirements.\nLead Active Directory modernization and optimization, technical debt reduction and recovery-readiness initiatives.\nDefine Windows Server engineering standards, operating system lifecycle plans, CIS-aligned hardening approaches, and remediation priorities.\nPartner with Cyber Security and Infrastructure Operations on identity security controls, vulnerability remediation, audit evidence, and resilient management environments.\nServe as the Infrastructure Engineering technical authority for Citrix and virtual desktop/application services.\nLead the architecture, modernization, security, resilience, performance, and lifecycle management of Citrix environments.\nDefine technical patterns for new Citrix use cases, virtual desktop infrastructure, application delivery, graphics-enabled workloads, remote access, and end-user experience improvements.\nLead complex Citrix design and implementation work, including solution assessments, architecture reviews, capacity planning, resilience, documentation, and operational handoff.\nCoordinate with business, application, security, network, and operations stakeholders to ensure Citrix solutions are secure, supportable, and aligned to business demand.\nProvide architecture leadership across VMware and enterprise virtualization platforms, storage, NAS, backup, disaster recovery, and cyber-recovery services, including lifecycle planning, resilience, capacity, availability, and modernization.\nLead the technical integration of infrastructure services across Active Directory, Windows, Citrix, virtualization, storage, backup, networking, and recovery environments.\nSupport disaster recovery and cyber-resiliency design, recovery testing, recovery environments, data protection, and infrastructure continuity planning.\nGuide server hosting, data center migration, M&A, and strategic infrastructure transformation work where multiple infrastructure domains are involved.\nWork with specialized engineers on implementation while retaining accountability for cross-domain design, technical risk, and delivery quality.\nConvert business demand, technical risk, lifecycle requirements, and security priorities into a clear multi-PI Infrastructure Engineering roadmap.\nLead technical planning for Program Increment work, including scope definition, sequencing, dependencies, effort assumptions, risk management, and capacity trade-offs.\nMaintain the technical quality of Infrastructure Engineering work tracked in Azure DevOps: structure features and backlog items, clarify acceptance criteria, identify dependencies, review status, and drive resolution of blockers.\nCoordinate engineering resources across Active Directory, Citrix, virtualization, Windows, Linux, storage, NAS, backup, disaster recovery, operations, and partner teams to deliver committed work.\nProvide concise technical status, risks, decisions, and roadmap recommendations to leadership and stakeholders.\nHow We Care For You:\nFinancial Rewards: great compensation package, bonus opportunities, matching 401k, and the ability to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan (select locations), Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts\nWork/Life Balance: Flexible paid time off, holidays and parental leave program.\nHealth & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages.\nProfessional Skills Development: Tuition Assistance, mentorship and coaching opportunities, leadership development and other personal growth programs\nCulture: Warm, respectful, family-like environment driven by our 12 core values. Multiple Employee Resource Groups led by our employees, open and welcoming to all. \nSalary Range Transparency:\nBuffalo, NY $130,000.00-$170,000.00 AnnuallySalary Range Disclaimer\nThe base salary range represents the low and high end of the Moog salary range for this position in the given work location. Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range(s) listed is just one component of Moog's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, employee stock purchase plan, an open paid time off policy, and many region-specific benefits.\nThis position requires access to U.S. export-controlled information.\nMoog offers an inclusive workplace, and, as such, affirms the right of every person to participate in all aspects of employment based on merit without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic. If you are interested in applying for employment and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply for a posted position, contact our Human Resources department via phone at 844-367-5787.\nNo unsolicited agency submittals please. Agency partners must be invited to participate in a search by our Talent Acquisition Team and have signed terms in place prior to any submittal. 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