At Rite-Hite, your work makes an impact. As the global leader in loading dock and door equipment, we design and deliver solutions that keep our customers safe, secure, and productive. Here, you’ll find innovation, stability, and the chance to grow your career as part of a team that’s always looking ahead.
Strategy and Architecture
Develop and execute the enterprise cloud and compute infrastructure strategy aligned with business, technology, cybersecurity, and resiliency objectives.
Lead infrastructure architecture, workload placement, and technology decisions across cloud, hosted, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
Partner with business and technology stakeholders to evaluate, design, and implement scalable infrastructure solutions.
Develop and maintain an AI-ready infrastructure strategy, ensuring compute, networking, storage, and platform capabilities support current and future enterprise AI initiatives.
Evaluate and enable Edge AI infrastructure solutions to support manufacturing, operational technology (OT), IoT, and other distributed business workloads where appropriate.
Assess and define containerization and orchestration strategies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift) to improve application portability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
Operations and Service Delivery
Lead the operation and continuous improvement of enterprise compute services, including cloud platforms, Windows Server, virtualization, IBM Power Systems, storage, backup, and disaster recovery.
Ensure infrastructure services meet established service levels for availability, performance, reliability, security, and supportability.
Establish and maintain standards for infrastructure operations, monitoring, patching, lifecycle management, documentation, and automation.
Provide operational oversight of Rite-Hite's Managed Service Provider (MSP), ensuring day-to-day infrastructure operations are delivered in accordance with established service level agreements (SLAs), operational standards, security requirements, and change management processes.
Conduct regular operational reviews with the MSP to monitor service performance, incident trends, problem management, capacity planning, and continual service improvement initiatives.
Modernization and Optimization
Lead infrastructure modernization initiatives, including cloud adoption, workload transformation, platform consolidation, automation, and retirement of legacy technologies.
Drive operational efficiency through standardization, automation, process improvement, and adoption of managed services where appropriate.
Optimize infrastructure and cloud costs through governance, capacity planning, utilization management, and financial accountability.
Lead the adoption and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using industry-standard tools such as Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, or Ansible to improve consistency, scalability, and operational efficiency.
Champion DevOps and Platform Engineering practices by partnering with application and infrastructure teams to implement CI/CD pipelines, automated provisioning, configuration management, and infrastructure lifecycle automation.
Provide technical leadership and hands-on experience in IaC, automation, and DevOps practices to guide architectural decisions, mentor technical staff, and establish enterprise standards and best practices.
Security and Resiliency
Partner with cybersecurity teams to ensure infrastructure platforms meet security, compliance, identity, access management, vulnerability management, logging, and segmentation requirements.
Ensure appropriate backup, disaster recovery, ransomware recovery, business continuity, and resiliency capabilities are established, tested, and maintained.
Support enterprise recovery planning and recovery testing aligned with business objectives.
Leadership and Management
Lead and develop a team of approximately 3 to 5 infrastructure professionals responsible for cloud engineering, platform…