Infrastructure Consultant / Infrastructure Program Manager

Title: Infrastructure Consultant / Infrastructure Program Manager

Duration: Contract (9-12 months) with potential for extension or conversion

Location: onsite(West Houston, TX)

Compensation: Up to $55/hour (W2)

No C2C or 3rd parties at this time.

Overview

Our client is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Consultant to help evaluate, modernize, and manage a portfolio of infrastructure initiatives across a global enterprise environment. This role will begin as a contract engagement with the potential to transition into a permanent position. This individual will serve as a trusted technical advisor and project leader, partnering closely with IT leadership to assess aging infrastructure, develop strategic recommendations, coordinate third-party vendors and MSPs, and drive critical infrastructure projects through completion. The ideal candidate combines strong infrastructure expertise with project management and vendor management experience. While this is not primarily a hands-on engineering role, candidates should possess enough technical depth to evaluate solutions, challenge assumptions, validate vendor recommendations, and help guide architectural decisions.

Current Environment

• VMware/vCenter virtualized infrastructure
• Dell Unity SAN environments
• Dell and Lenovo server infrastructure
• Palo Alto Networks firewalls
• Prisma Access (SASE)
• Microsoft 365 GCC High
• SharePoint Online
• Hybrid on-premises and cloud environment
• Multiple North American office locations

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments of existing infrastructure, including compute, storage, virtualization, networking, and cloud services.
• Evaluate aging infrastructure and develop recommendations for modernization, replacement, migration, or optimization.
• Help define long-term infrastructure strategy, including on-premises, cloud, and hybrid approaches.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, or military or veteran status. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with state and local laws, including the California Fair Chance Act, City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance.