Serves as senior technical lead on highly complex projects; interacts with project teams, vendors, and other agencies to gather requirements and recommends server and storage solutions; provides technical guidance for solutions, coordinates equipment deployment and participates in systems installation, configuration, and testing; manages licensing, certificate, and maintenance contract renewals; oversees the daily operations of the data centers, which includes power management, county personnel, vendor access, and future technology strategies; manages SharePoint Team site for IT Operations; manages ticketing assignments and makes sure that all SLA's are being met. Acquires, architects, installs, configures, maintains, and operates hardware and software solutions to manage and monitor compute and storage environments to meet application and core service requires; architects, implements, maintains, and operates data protection and system disaster recovery solutions; ensures data and systems are backed up, replicated and recoverable as required and manages cabinet, cabling, and power configurations; serves as the main point of contact for Teams, SharePoint, and Azure AD issues; provides Tier1 on-call support after hours and point of contact with other teams or vendors in case of any outage.