Cloud Infrastructure Senior Manager

About this role

JOB REQUISITION Cloud Infrastructure Senior Manager LOCATION NEW YORK CITY ADDITIONAL LOCATION(S) WASHINGTON DC - MCLEAN JOB DESCRIPTION Technology Consulting Cloud Infrastructure Senior Manager

You Belong Here

The Protiviti Career provides opportunity to learn, inspire, and advance within a collaborative and inclusive culture.  We hire curious individuals for whom learning is a passion. We lean into our mission: We Care. We Collaborate. We Deliver.

At every level, we champion leaders who live our values of integrity, inclusion, innovation, and commitment to success. Imagining our work as a journey, we believe integrity guides our way, inclusion moves us forward together, innovation creates new destinations, and our commitment to success empowers us to deliver on our vision to be the most trusted global consulting firm.

Where We Need You

Protiviti is looking for a Technology Consulting Senior Manager to join our growing Infrastructure, Cloud, & Security Engineering team.

What You Can Expect

As a Senior Manager, you’ll partner with our clients to identify and manage risk. You'll develop strategies to solve complex business problems using new ways of thinking, and devise solutions to support your clients' needs through using the latest tools and methods.  You’ll develop lasting relationships with client personnel and further these relationships through quality product delivery.  You’ll foster a network within the business community and serve as an ambassador of Protiviti in the market. You will also be a mentor and provide performance development to teams as you oversee the successful completion of project work plans.

What Will Help You Be Successful

You enjoy working across infrastructure, networking, and cloud platforms to design, build, migrate, and/or secure systems and environments.

You are passionate about building trusted relationships with C-level executives and providing exceptional experiences that translate to additional project work.

You have an inherent interest in project management and team leadership.

You promote a positive team culture that fosters open communication among all engagement team members.

You create development opportunities for others, including participating in the creation and rollout of training, and ways for your team to improve our clients and communities.

You enjoy discovering prospective project work with current and potential clients through networking, knowledge-building, and client interactions.

You excel at identifying opportunities to integrate product solutions and resources to improve client service capabilities.

You view client challenges as opportunities to add value and can translate that into new project proposals and sales.

You are seen as a valued contributor to thought leadership and encourage knowledge-sharing and collaboration across teams.

You have interest in managing a diverse portfolio of clients across industries.

Do Your Talents Include the Following?

Recent hands-on design, deployment, and/or administration experience in Windows Server and Linux systems administration

Working familiarity with Unix variants and Mac OS; prior administration experience a plus

Working familiarity with Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and other IaaS providers preferred

Strong enterprise networking design, deployment, and/or administration experience

Working familiarity with enterprise-class vendors and product lines strongly preferred (e.g. Cisco, Cisco Meraki, HPE/Aruba, Juniper, Extreme, Brocade)

Working familiarity with enterprise-class network security appliance vendors and product lines strongly preferred (e.g. Cisco, Cisco Meraki, Palo Alto, Fortinet)

Working familiarity with SMB/”prosumer” vendors and product lines a plus (e.g. Ubiquiti/UBNT, SonicWall, Mikrotik) a plus

Working familiarity with load balancers, VPN appliances/concentrators a plus

In depth understanding of current enterprise design patterns and norms for basic networking capabilities/concepts (e.g. TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLAN segmentation, routing and switching, wireless)

Strong familiarity with SMB and entry-level on premises computing infrastructure technologies

Working familiarity with multiple server hardware vendors and associated management tools/platforms (e.g. Dell, HPE, Cisco, SuperMicro) strongly preferred

Working familiarity with hypervisor platforms (e.g. VMware vSphere/ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, or others) strongly preferred

Strong familiarity with enterprise storage

Working familiarity with DAS, SAN, and NAS/filer solutions

Working understanding of contemporary network storage protocols and interconnect methods (e.g. iSCSI, CIFS, FibreChannel, NFS)

Strong familiarity with basic on premises infrastructure management best practices

Rack management

Power and cooling demand management

Physical security

Strong familiarity with scripting for administrative, auditing, and other operational purposes

Prior experience writing PowerShell, Python, BASH/other Linux shell scripts strongly preferred

Prior experience with typical infrastructure and server/endpoint management toolsets

Performance and capacity management tools

Endpoint management / RMM platforms

Patch and vulnerability management tools

Log and event aggregation technologies (Kafka, SIEMs, Splunk, etc.)

Prior experience with capacity planning, VM/server “right-sizing”, performance analysis

Prior experience and ownership designing server, network, application solutions through deployment phase

Prior experience administrating Office 365 services

Prior experience administrating Microsoft Exchange, Google G Suite/Workspace is a plus

Experience designing, building, or remediating an environment to meet specific regulatory requirements such as PCI-DSS, CMMC, NIST 800-53.

Prior experience translating undocumented systems / applications / operating procedures into usable documentation is absolutely necessary; Ability to update or create visualizations of dependency maps or architecture overviews is a must

Prior experience with integration of IT systems in a post-merger/acquisition environment

Prior experience with application rationalization / dependency mapping exercises

Prior experience designing, implementing, or administrating backup and replication/continuity solutions for server, storage, and application infrastructure

Familiarity with typical project management methods (Agile, Waterfall, etc.)

Prior experience translating business requirements (e.g. compliance controls, vendor / business partner requirements) into technical configurations / solutions

Prior experience dealing with third party hardware/software/service vendors preferred

Prior experience translating business continuity / disaster recovery requirements into technical solution designs preferred

Establishing and cultivating business relationships and a professional network, including with senior executives.

Successfully pursuing business development opportunities and identifying and implementing strategies to obtain new work or clientele.

Ability to translate and communicate issues, risks or challenges to client personnel, including executives.

Leadership and direct supervisory experience of teams including conducting performance appraisals, mentoring and coaching, oversight and review of work, coordination across teams, and understanding how to motivate.

Your Educational and Professional Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in (Comp Sci, Comp Eng, Networking) or relevant field, or equivalent experience delivering technology or consulting solutions.

7+ years working in professional services or related fields.

Professional Certification such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, DevOps Engineer Expert or similar strongly preferred.

Excellent verbal and written English

Comfortable collaborating with key business executives, system/application owners or stakeholders in group conversation or direct interview contexts

Ability to rapidly shift between planning / design work and practical execution (“hands on keyboard” tasks for discovery or implementation) is an absolute necessity

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills required

Personal projects / demonstrated extracurricular interest in technology a plus

Our Hybrid Workplace

Protiviti practices a hybrid model, which is a combination of working in person with a purpose and working remotely. This model creates meaningful experiences for our people and our clients while offering a flexible environment. The ratio of remote to in-person requirements vary by client, project, team, and other business factors. Our people work both in-person in local Protiviti offices and on client sites, which can include local or out-of-state travel based on our projects and client requests and commitments.

Starting salary is based on a full-time equivalent schedule. Placement in the range is dependent upon experience, skills and geographic work location. Below is the salary range for this job. $146,000.00 - $234,000.00 Our annual bonus plan provides eligible employees additional cash and/or discretionary stock compensation opportunities. Below is the bonus target opportunity for this job. 14% The total cash range is estimated from the sum of the base salary range plus the bonus target opportunity. Below is the estimated total cash range for this job. $166,440.00 - $266,760.00 Employees are eligible for medical, dental, and vision coverages, FSA and HSA healthcare accounts, life and accident insurance, adoption and fertility assistance, paid parental leave up to 10 weeks, and short/long term disability. We offer eligible employees a company 401(k) savings and investment plan with an employer match of 50% on the first 6% of your contributions. We provide Choice Time Off (CTO) for vacation, personal needs, and sick time. The amount of (CTO) varies based on years of service. New hires receive up to 20 days of CTO per calendar year. Protiviti also recognizes up to 11 paid holidays each calendar year.

Learn more about the variety of rewards we offer at Protiviti at https://www.protiviti.com/sites/default/files/2026-01/2026_u.s._benefit_highlights.pdf.

Any benefits outlined are part of our reward offerings for full-time employees in the U.S. Your Open Enrollment materials, insurance contracts, plan documents and Summary Plan Descriptions together comprise the official plan document which legally governs the administration of your benefit plans. Protiviti reserves the right to terminate or amend your benefit plans in any way and at any time.

Protiviti is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/Disability/Veteran

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JOB LOCATION NY PRO NEW YORK CITY