IT Infrastructure Manager (Fairbanks)

Doyon, Limited's mission is to continually enhance our position as a financially strong Native corporation to promote the economic and social well-being of our 20,000+ shareholders. We provide exceptional career opportunities for individuals who value professionalism, collaboration, and a commitment to excellence. We understand the importance of treating our employees well and the impact motivated employees have in helping us succeed in our vision to be the leader in all we do.

COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS PACKAGE: 

Doyon, Limited offers a highly competitive benefits package that makes up a significant portion of an employee's total compensation. Eligible employees may participate in the following benefits (these details are for informational purposes only and are subject to any policy or plan changes):

• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid Holidays
• Medical Insurance
• Dental & Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
• Life insurance
• Short and Long-Term Disability
• 401(k) Plan & Employer Match
• Profit sharing
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Assistance

**This position can be filled in either Fairbanks, AK or Anchorage, AK**

JOB SUMMARY: The Infrastructure Manager is accountable for the performance, reliability, security, and lifecycle management of Doyon’s enterprise infrastructure environment across the organization and its subsidiaries. This role leads and operates network, server, cloud, and communications platforms as an integrated service supporting critical business operations. This is a working manager position that combines technical leadership with hands-on execution. The Infrastructure Manager sets standards, leads infrastructure staff, and directly contributes to the design, implementation, and support of infrastructure systems as needed. The role is responsible for ensuring infrastructure services are stable, secure, and scalable, while maintaining the technical depth to engage directly in complex issues, critical incidents, and key initiatives.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Infrastructure Ownership and Delivery

• Own end-to-end delivery of infrastructure services across network, systems, cloud, and communications platforms, ensuring capabilities that meet organizational expectations for availability, performance, and security.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for complex infrastructure issues; actively engage in troubleshooting, resolution, and post-incident process improvements across all infrastructure domains.
• Operate as a working manager by balancing team leadership with hands-on technical contribution, including direct involvement in complex implementations and critical incidents.
• Provide direct technical leadership and guidance to infrastructure staff, ensuring consistent execution, accountability, and professional development across the team.
• Establish, enforce, and continuously improve operational standards for monitoring, patch management, backup and recovery, configuration management, change control, and documentation. Ensuring infrastructure staff understand, adopt, and are held accountable to those standards.
• Review and validate technical designs, configurations, and implementations to ensure alignment with established standards and best practices.
• Drive alignment and integration between network, systems, and security functions to support a unified, consistently managed enterprise infrastructure model.
• Lead infrastructure lifecycle planning, including system upgrades, technology refreshes, decommissioning, and proactive identification and remediation of technical debt.
• Ensure infrastructure supports disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity requirements.
• Maintain visibility into infrastructure health, performance, and risk through effective monitoring and reporting.
• Partner with IT leadership and business stakeholders to align infrastructure capabilities with operational and strategic needs.
• Own relationships with infrastructure vendors, service providers, and technology partners, including solution evaluation, contract oversight, and serving as the escalation point above day-to-day specialist coordination.
• Contribute to infrastructure budget planning and management of operational costs.

Success in this role is demonstrated through consistent, reliable operation of infrastructure services with minimal disruption to business operations. Systems are stable, secure, and well-managed, with clear standards that are followed across the environment. Issues are identified early, resolved quickly, and used to strengthen operational processes and resilience. The Infrastructure Manager builds and leads a capable, accountable team while maintaining the technical depth to engage directly in complex work when required. Infrastructure services are predictable, scalable, and aligned across Doyon and its subsidiaries, enabling operations with confidence and reducing organizational risk.

DOYON LIMITED CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Commitment to Excellence – Identifies what needs to be done and takes action to achieve a standard of excellence beyond job expectations.
• Corporate Values- Understand, embraces, and integrates Doyon corporate values into everyday duties and responsibilities.
• Customer, Client & Shareholder Service – Identifies and responds to current and future client needs by providing excellent service to internal and external clients.
• Safety and Security – Promotes a safe work environment for co-workers and customers.
• Teamwork – Resourceful team player that builds, strengthens, and maintains collaborative relationships with others inside or outside the organization. members and end users as needed, serving as an escalation point for network-related issues.

JOB SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES:

• Adaptability- Adapts to changing conditions and work assignments, set priorities and manages multiple assignments, and tasks.
• Analytical Skills - Visualizes, articulates and solves a variety of problems and concepts and makes appropriate decisions based on available information.
• Attention to Detail- Ensures one's own and others’ work and information are complete and accurate.
• Communication Skills- Listens, writes, and speaks effectively, and positively relates and interacts with co-workers and others.
• Planning and Organizing- Systematically develop plans, prioritizes, organizes and manages resources in order to accomplish business goals within a specific time period.
• Problem Solving - Anticipates and identifies problems, distinguishes between symptoms and causes, and determines alternative solutions involving varied levels of complexity, ambiguity and risk.
• Process Improvement – Manages, leads and enables the process of change and transition while helping others to deal with the process.
• Project Management - Plans, organizes, and manages resources to bring about the successful completion of specific projects.
• Technical Judgment- Applies hands-on infrastructure expertise to evaluate solutions, validate designs, and make sound technical decisions aligned with organizational standards and risk tolerance.
• Security Awareness- Maintains awareness of security risks, vulnerabilities, and best practices relevant to infrastructure environments, ensuring systems and processes support a strong organizational security posture.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum seven (7) years of hands-on experience operating and supporting enterprise infrastructure environments, including server platforms, virtualization (VMware or Hyper-V), enterprise networking (LAN/WAN, SD-WAN, firewall), and cloud services (Azure or AWS), with at least two (2) years in a lead or supervisory capacity.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of Microsoft 365 and Entra ID administration, including Exchange Online, SharePoint, and identity and access management, sufficient to provide technical oversight and serve as a credible escalation point for systems staff.
• Demonstrated accountability for infrastructure performance in a production environment, including system availability, reliability, incident response, and enforcement of operational standards across monitoring, patch management, backup and recovery, configuration management, and change control.
• Demonstrated experience designing or supporting backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities in a production environment.
• Proven ability to function as a working manager, leading technical staff with accountability for team performance and service delivery while maintaining direct technical involvement in system design, implementation, and complex troubleshooting.
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues spanning network, systems, and cloud environments, including serving as an escalation point for critical incidents across all infrastructure domains.
• Lead infrastructure projects and initiatives, delegating execution to infrastructure staff while maintaining accountability for scope, quality, and delivery outcomes.
• Experience supporting infrastructure across multiple locations, business units, or subsidiaries, with an understanding of the challenges of distributed and remote operations.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences, including translating infrastructure concepts and risks for IT leadership and business stakeholders.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience supporting or integrating cybersecurity controls within infrastructure environments, including identity, endpoint, network security, and monitoring capabilities.
• Experience standardizing and governing infrastructure practices at scale across multiple business units or subsidiaries, including documentation, service consistency, and operational maturity improvements.
• Familiarity with automation or scripting to improve infrastructure efficiency and consistency (e.g., PowerShell, Python, infrastructure-as-code concepts).
• Industry certifications in infrastructure, cloud, or networking technologies (e.g., Microsoft AZ-104, VMware VCP, Cisco CCNP, AWS/Azure) that demonstrate applied technical expertise.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT: The majority of work is performed in a professional office setting with a wide variety of people with differing functions, personalities and abilities. This is a fully on-site position based out of either the Anchorage, AK or Fairbanks, AK office; remote work is not available for this role. There is a 40-hour on-site work week with on-call availability for critical incidents and infrastructure outages, shared on a rotational basis among the infrastructure team. Some travel may be required.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The work is generally sedentary, requiring routine walking, standing, bending and carrying items weighing less than forty pounds. [Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions]. 

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION: It is Doyon’s business philosophy and practice to provide reasonable accommodations, according to applicable state and federal laws, to all qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities. Accommodation requests should be made, in writing, to the Human Resources Department.

PREFERENCE STATEMENT:  Doyon grants preference to qualified Doyon Shareholders first, and second to qualified shareholders of other Alaska Native corporations that grant a similar preference in all phases of employment and training, which include, but are not limited to hiring, promotion, layoff, transfer, and training

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments

A review of this position has excluded marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills or abilities. 

This job description is not an employment agreement or contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship. Management has the exclusive right to alter the scope of work within the framework of this job description at any time without prior notice.