National Manager - Infrastructure & Operations
$175k - $190k/yr
Senior, Expert
Fresno, CA, USA+19 moreMore locations: Concord, CA, USA | Santa Ana, CA, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Austin, TX, USA | Los Angeles, CA, USA | Fairfield, CA, USA | Oakland, CA, USA | Dallas, TX, USA | Raleigh, NC, USA | Charlotte, NC, USA | Sacramento, CA, USA | Spokane, WA, USA | Arvada, CO, USA | New York, NY, USA | Bellevue, WA, USA | Portland, OR, USA | Atlanta, GA, USA | Roseville, CA, USA | San Diego, CA, USA
Hybrid
IT OperationsSystem Administration
About the job
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in infrastructure, cloud, systems engineering, or IT operations.
- At least 3 years of leadership experience.
- Strong experience with Azure, AWS, Microsoft 365, Active Directory, and Entra ID.
- Experience with automation tools and practices, including Terraform, scripting, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience supporting regulated environments and security frameworks such as CMMC, NIST 800-53, or NIST 800-171.
- Working knowledge of IAM practices, including identity lifecycle management, role-based access control, least privilege, and privileged access management.
- Experience working closely with Cybersecurity teams to implement technical controls and support audit readiness.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams, improve operational maturity, and deliver reliable infrastructure services.
Responsibilities
- Own operational delivery, reliability, and lifecycle management of core infrastructure platforms, including Azure and AWS, Microsoft 365, Active Directory and Entra ID, F5, DNS, Intune, SCCM, Windows, and Red Hat environments.
- Ensure infrastructure platforms meet business requirements for availability, scalability, security, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Partner with the Network/Cloud Architect on platform design, technical standards, and architectural direction, and ensure approved designs are implemented, supported, documented, and continuously improved.
- Establish support models, ownership boundaries, lifecycle plans, and operational standards for infrastructure services.
- Lead infrastructure operations across monitoring, incident response, patching, maintenance, platform health, and operational readiness.
- Ensure infrastructure services follow consistent ITSM practices, including incident, problem, and change management.
- Improve operational reliability through consistency, accountability, documentation, and measurable service performance.
- Partner with Service Desk, Site Services, Engineering, Cybersecurity, Applications, and Construction Technology teams to ensure infrastructure services meet business needs.
- Drive practical automation in infrastructure operations to reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and increase delivery speed.
- Lead adoption and scaling of Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform; CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation; scripting and orchestration; standardized deployment patterns; and repeatable infrastructure builds.
- Establish reusable infrastructure patterns that enable teams to deliver services faster, more securely, and with less operational friction.
- Partner with Cybersecurity to implement and enforce security controls across infrastructure platforms.
- Ensure infrastructure services align with enterprise cybersecurity policies, regulatory requirements, and security standards, including CMMC and NIST SP 800 frameworks such as NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171.
- Embed security controls into identity, network, cloud, server, and endpoint platforms.
- Support audit readiness through evidence generation, control validation, remediation tracking, and operational follow-through.
- Lead implementation and ongoing maturity of a centralized IAM execution model within IT Operations.
- Establish IT Operations as accountable for IAM execution while aligning access practices to enterprise cybersecurity policy and risk standards.
- Own and improve identity lifecycle execution, including new-hire onboarding, role changes, transfers, terminations, access reviews, and privileged-access workflows.
- Implement and enforce role-based access control aligned to HR job roles, least-privilege access, time-bound privileged access through PIM, standardized access request and approval workflows, and repeatable provisioning and deprovisioning processes.
- Reduce fragmented and manual access practices by building documented, automated, and auditable IAM workflows.
- Partner with Cybersecurity and HR Systems to maintain HR as the system of record for identity triggers, align cybersecurity policy and privileged-access requirements, and execute identity lifecycle processes consistently and accurately through IT Operations.
- Build the IAM execution capability, improve its tooling, document processes, and ensure continuous improvement.
- Drive business value from infrastructure investments by ensuring technology platforms improve workforce productivity, support project execution, enhance customer experience, reduce operational risk, and enable company growth.
- Partner with business leaders to understand strategic and operational priorities and translate them into infrastructure capabilities, roadmaps, service improvements, and investment recommendations.
- Establish clear business cases and expected outcomes for major infrastructure initiatives and ensure delivery aligns with intended value, risk reduction, and operational improvements.
- Identify and advance emerging technologies, automation opportunities, AI-enabled operations, platform modernization strategies, and operating-model improvements that increase business agility while reducing complexity and cost.
- Evaluate industry trends and recommend practical improvements to infrastructure strategy, automation, cloud adoption, employee experience, service delivery, and operational resilience.
- Encourage responsible experimentation, rapid learning, and disciplined adoption of technologies that produce measurable operational or business value.
- Execute the infrastructure roadmap defined by the Director of Cloud & Infrastructure Services.
- Provide operational insight, technical feedback, and practical recommendations to help shape future infrastructure strategy.
- Drive modernization of legacy infrastructure, cloud operations, and platform delivery practices.
- Support cost optimization, improved resiliency, simplified operations, and alignment between infrastructure services and business needs.
- Lead a unified Cloud Infrastructure and IT Operations team and integrate IT Operations personnel into the broader Infrastructure organization with clear roles, responsibilities, operating procedures, and expectations.
- Develop team members through coaching, technical growth, career pathing, and clear accountability.
- Establish and report key performance indicators measuring operational effectiveness, service quality, automation maturity, financial efficiency, security control performance, reliability, capacity, and delivered business value.
- Use performance data to identify trends, prioritize improvements, hold teams and vendors accountable, and communicate infrastructure health, risk, cost, and investment needs to technical and executive stakeholders.
- Manage cloud and infrastructure spend within assigned areas and establish FinOps practices for cost allocation, forecasting, budgeting, usage optimization, unit-cost visibility, and accountability.
- Partner with Finance, Procurement, Architecture, and technical owners to identify and execute cost optimization opportunities without compromising reliability, security, performance, or business outcomes.
- Oversee vendor relationships, licensing, renewals, commercial performance, and service delivery for assigned platforms and infrastructure services.
About the company
Swinerton delivers commercial construction and construction management services across the United States and is 100% employee-owned. It manages projects from initial planning through completion, handling aspects such as site logistics, safety, budgeting, scheduling, and coordination with clients, designers, and subcontractors. Swinerton distinguishes itself through its long history (established in 1888), nationwide reach, and a business model grounded in employee ownership that aligns the company’s interests with those of clients and staff. The company emphasizes integrity, passion, and excellence in all projects, prioritizing safety and reliable delivery. Its goal is to be the trusted partner of choice for building projects by delivering high-quality work on time and within budget while maintaining a strong safety culture across every market it serves.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
1888
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- August 2026 Raleigh lease expands headcount support and deepens Southeast client access.
- July 2026 Southern California promotions strengthen education and healthcare execution capacity.
- Portsmouth Square's $73 million San Francisco contract and San Diego campus work fill pipelines.
What critics are saying
- Schuster v. Swinerton heads to trial in December 2026, exposing benefits-plan governance.
- Healthcare and education concentration ties results to public capital budgets and approval cycles.
- A project execution failure at active campuses or hospitals would crush brand trust.
What makes Swinerton unique
- Swinerton's 24-office, 100% employee-owned model keeps local project teams unusually accountable.
- Its healthcare, education, aviation, and mass timber practices diversify demand across regions.
- Timberlab affiliation lets Swinerton self-perform mass timber scopes, as shown at USD.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- 401(k) Company Match
- Company Equity
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Sick Leave
- Paid Holidays
- Bereavement Leave
- Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
- Life Insurance