Infrastructure Manager

The IT Infrastructure Manager oversees the design, implementation, maintenance, and security of the district’s network, servers, cloud environments, and communication systems. This role ensures reliable connectivity across all school campuses, administrative buildings, and digital learning platforms. The manager leads a technical team to provide a secure, robust infrastructure that supports 21st-century learning and daily district operations., Team Leadership & Strategy

• Manage the Infrastructure Team: Lead, mentor, and evaluate a team of systems/network administrators.
• Manage the infrastructure budget, vendor relationships, and hardware lifecycle.
• Oversee, evaluate & support a Wide Area Network.
• Act as the Tier 3 escalation point for complex technical issues.
• Act as team lead on cross-function technology or district wide projects and initiatives.

Infrastructure & Network Engineering

• Network: Manage and configure networking, routing, switching and wireless. Optimize network for high availability, density and real-time application protocols.
• Virtualization: Administer the VM environment, hypervisors, SAN storage and management environment.
• Business Continuity: Oversee backup solutions (e.g., Veeam) and disaster recovery strategy to minimize downtime and ensure continuity.
• Performance & Troubleshooting: Monitor network usage, diagnose system failures, and execute proactive performance upgrades.

Cybersecurity Leadership

• Firewall Management: Act as the primary admin for Firewalls, managing SD-WAN, VPN, and UTM profiles (Web Filtering, IPS, Antivirus) etc.
• Security Frameworks: Develop and enforce a cybersecurity program based on NIST or CIS Controls
• Incident Response (IR): Lead the strategy & response to security threats, perform vulnerability scans, and manage remediation efforts
• Compliance: Ensure the environment meets regulatory standards (e.g., FERPA, HIPAA, or SOC2).
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Education Technology, or a related field (equivalent experience considered).
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in infrastructure administration, with at least 2 years in a supervisory or team-lead role.
• Proven experience working within a K-12 educational setting or public sector environment is highly preferred.

Lakeville Area Schools (Independent School Disrict No. 194) is an award-winning school system and the twelfth largest school district in Minnesota serving approximately 12,000 students in Lakeville, parts of Burnsville and Elko New Market, and portions of Eureka, Credit River, and New Market Townships. There are nine elementary schools, three middle schools and two high schools, an area learning center, an online K-12 school, Early Childhood programming, and lifelong learning opportunities through Community Education.

Our vision is to inspire a passion for learning in every student with our mission to strive to ensure success for every student personally, socially, academically and civically. We are committed to establishing a school community that values diversity, equity, and inclusivity for all students, staff and families where every person feels welcomed, valued and respected. As an employee of Lakeville Area Schools, you will have access to high-quality and affordable health insurance plans, along with a range of additional benefits designed to support the well-being of you and your family.

Your benefits may include:

• Paid vacation, personal, and sick leave
• 12 paid holidays each year
• Employees are eligible for benefits on Day One of employment.
• All employees working a 0.75 FTE or 30 hours per week or more are offered full-time benefits including low-cost medical, dental, vision, prescription drug, and legal insurance plans.
• Teachers are offered health and dental benefits at a 0.50 FTE or more.
• All staff working 20 to 29.99 hours per week are offered part-time voluntary benefits including low-cost vision and legal insurance.

• Health benefits include: o added networks that give employees access to many medical services at ZERO COST o free virtual healthcare services that offer access to doctors and licensed therapists 24/7 o free diabetes care and heart health prevention programs o provider choice with the largest PPO network available o wellness rewards program

• Dental plans include orthodontic care for adults and children.
• 403(b) retirement investment account offerings to help you save for the future with employer matching offered under many collective bargaining agreements.
• Pension plan that provides income when you retire (for more information, visit PERAfor non-instructional positions and TRAfor instructional/licensed positions).
• Staff over 30 hours per week are offered employer paid life insurance to provide support for your family in the event of death (offered to teachers at 0.50 FTE or more).
• Staff over 30 hours per week are offered Long-term disability insurance that can provide income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury (offered to teachers at 0.50 FTE or more).
• Tax-free flex spending accounts for health, dental, orthodontic, vision, and dependent care.
• Resources that provide support and promote physical, emotional, social, and financial well-being.

Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for work/life support:

• Everyday life can be stressful and can affect your health, well-being, and performance. Under our EAP, employees and their famiies can receive no-cost, confidential information help for a wide variety of needs and concerns: anxiety, childcare, eldercare family conflict, parenting concerns, alcohol or drug addictions, stress management, and more.
• Virtual Fitness Services: easily accessible, effective and affordable way to reach your fitness goals any time, anywhere for better health and well-being.