What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Enterprise Infrastructure Manager position at ArentFox Schiff?
Who We Are
ArentFox Schiff is an award-winning, globally recognized law firm that delivers sophisticated, innovative, and practical legal solutions to clients around the world. With more than 600 lawyers and policy professionals, ArentFox Schiff's expertise is sought out by Fortune 500s, start-ups, international governments, non-profits and trade associations, and private individuals.
Our work spans highly complex, global matters as well as the deeply personal issues that shape the lives of individuals and communities.
Why Join Us
At ArentFox Schiff, we know that diverse backgrounds produce different perspectives, richer thinking, and more creative solutions to the challenges our clients face. We hope you share that vision. Join us and take on the challenge of doing meaningful work while helping us build upon a culture that reflects our dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We base all of our employment decisions on merit and do not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected characteristic.
Job Description
The Senior Enterprise Infrastructure Manager, under the direction of the Director of Infrastructure, is responsible for managing and coordinating enterprisewide IT infrastructure initiatives to meet the Firm's business and operational needs. This role provides senior technical leadership and delivery oversight across the infrastructure landscape, ensuring that systems are designed, implemented, and operated in accordance with established standards, procedures, and applicable ISOaligned information security controls.The position manages a geographically distributed team of infrastructure engineers located across multiple U.S. regions and is accountable for the design, operation, and delivery of the Firm's enterprise infrastructure, with the majority of datacenter workloads hosted in Microsoft Azure. The role designs, builds, and supports key components of the infrastructure environment, including identity services, server platforms, messaging systems, networking, and security solutions.The Senior Enterprise Infrastructure Manager leads the daytoday operations of Enterprise Infrastructure, including system performance monitoring, patching and updates, capacity planning, and infrastructure lifecycle management. This position also oversees business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities and manages thirdparty service providers and vendorsupplied solutions, ensuring effective integration with firmwide applications and adherence to established standards.In addition to operational leadership, the Senior Enterprise Infrastructure Manager is accountable for the successful execution of complex, multiphase infrastructure initiatives. This includes defining technical standards, enforcing architectural consistency, managing risk, and owning delivery timelines while coordinating across infrastructure, network, security, application, and vendor teams. The role also provides tactical leadership within IT to evaluate, improve, and streamline internal best practices and technologies.The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong understanding of enterprise networking architectures and modern "asaservice" technologies, balancing deep technical expertise with disciplined execution and crossfunctional leadership to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure solutions.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES*
Infrastructure Operations & Leadership
ArentFox Schiff is an award-winning, globally recognized law firm that delivers sophisticated, innovative, and practical legal solutions to clients around the world. With more than 600 lawyers and policy professionals, ArentFox Schiff's expertise is sought out by Fortune 500s, start-ups, international governments, non-profits and trade associations, and private individuals.
Our work spans highly complex, global matters as well as the deeply personal issues that shape the lives of individuals and communities.
Why Join Us
At ArentFox Schiff, we know that diverse backgrounds produce different perspectives, richer thinking, and more creative solutions to the challenges our clients face. We hope you share that vision. Join us and take on the challenge of doing meaningful work while helping us build upon a culture that reflects our dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We base all of our employment decisions on merit and do not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected characteristic.
Job Description
- This position can be based in any of the following locations: Boston, MA, New York, NY or Washington, DC
The Senior Enterprise Infrastructure Manager, under the direction of the Director of Infrastructure, is responsible for managing and coordinating enterprisewide IT infrastructure initiatives to meet the Firm's business and operational needs. This role provides senior technical leadership and delivery oversight across the infrastructure landscape, ensuring that systems are designed, implemented, and operated in accordance with established standards, procedures, and applicable ISOaligned information security controls.The position manages a geographically distributed team of infrastructure engineers located across multiple U.S. regions and is accountable for the design, operation, and delivery of the Firm's enterprise infrastructure, with the majority of datacenter workloads hosted in Microsoft Azure. The role designs, builds, and supports key components of the infrastructure environment, including identity services, server platforms, messaging systems, networking, and security solutions.The Senior Enterprise Infrastructure Manager leads the daytoday operations of Enterprise Infrastructure, including system performance monitoring, patching and updates, capacity planning, and infrastructure lifecycle management. This position also oversees business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities and manages thirdparty service providers and vendorsupplied solutions, ensuring effective integration with firmwide applications and adherence to established standards.In addition to operational leadership, the Senior Enterprise Infrastructure Manager is accountable for the successful execution of complex, multiphase infrastructure initiatives. This includes defining technical standards, enforcing architectural consistency, managing risk, and owning delivery timelines while coordinating across infrastructure, network, security, application, and vendor teams. The role also provides tactical leadership within IT to evaluate, improve, and streamline internal best practices and technologies.The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong understanding of enterprise networking architectures and modern "asaservice" technologies, balancing deep technical expertise with disciplined execution and crossfunctional leadership to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure solutions.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES*
Infrastructure Operations & Leadership
- Lead and manage daytoday activities and workload across enterprise network and systems teams.
- Act as the senior escalation point for complex infrastructure issues impacting production systems and core services.
- Ensure system stability, availability, and business continuity remain top operati