About this role
Position Type:
Administration and Professionals
Date Posted:
2026-09-14
Location: East Professional Center
ABOUT CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT
The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) is Ohio's third-largest public school system, serving more than 35,000 students.
CMSD strives to ensure that every child receives a high-quality education, regardless of the provider. To that end, CMSD lets families choose which District schools their children attend, with options that include STEM, the arts, single-gender education, International Baccalaureate, Montessori, and early college.
Our schools have autonomy over human and financial resources in exchange for accountability for performance. The principal has primary responsibility and accountability for establishing their school as a high-quality, high-expectation academic center focusing on personalized instruction, professional support for teachers, and school-wide practices that lead to measurable results.
CMSD ensures that students have access to technology and training to prepare them for the future. The District provides a free laptop or tablet for every student and connects every family that needs internet access. Graduating seniors leave commencement with not only a diploma but also a laptop.
In our pursuit of a more fair, just, and good system of education, we strive to ensure that all of our learners, both scholars and educators, to be challenged with academically and intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of their efforts and provide them opportunities to demonstrate their best work.
BUILDING BRIGHTER FUTURES
The Cleveland Board of Education adopted the Building Brighter Futures (BBF) initiative on December 9, 2025. Building Brighter Futures is a strategic and data-driven plan shaped by more than a year of community engagement, information analysis, and thoughtful deliberation. The goal of this plan is to strengthen enrollment and ensure scholars attend a newer school building that offers more educational opportunities, including algebra in the eighth grade, more sports and extracurricular activities, and college credits and college and career pathways in high school. BBF is ensuring academic excellence so every CMSD scholar can thrive.
THE OPPORTUNITY:
Location: Administration or As Assigned
Reports to: Infrastructure Solutions Architect
FLSA Status: Exempt
Salary Band: 7
Compensation: $ 68,891.00 - $ 93,003.00
**Internal applicants are required to upload a resume to their application**
The Infrastructure Engineer coordinates the engineering, maintenance, and expansion of the District's Data Center software computing platforms, network, and storage systems. The Infrastructure Engineer serves in a leadership role and other IT engineers and service providers to deliver consistent, reliable, and resilient services that support enterprise software applications, operations, and strategic initiatives that advance the District's goals and objectives. He/she will lead the transition of essential infrastructure technology from CMSD's Data Center to a public cloud platform and provide management oversight of the new public cloud environment and the CMSD Data Center's remaining technology.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assist with monitoring the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the District
- Act as a technical resource, providing guidance and consultation to all stakeholders
- Assist with designing the governance, assurance and standards activities associated with ensuring enterprise technology architecture compliance
- Assist with analyzing the technology industry, competitors and market trends and determine their potential value and impact on the enterprise
- Assist with facilitating the research, evaluation, and selection of hardware and software solutions, as well as the design of standard configurations
- Lead the design and implementation of technology hardware procurement, governance, and installation, to optimize utilization of resources and maintain appropriate security and backups
- Manage server hardware performance and quality of service requirements, identifying strategies for expansion or more effective and efficient utilization
- Develop and maintain server and storage change control process, security standards, policies, and practices
- Develop backup and disaster recovery plans for the servers, SAN, and network systems
- Perform routine maintenance of server and data storage environments
- Troubleshoots and resolves software and hardware issues and outages
- Design, implement, and maintain the Microsoft networking environment, including Active Directory, ADFS, DHCP, DNS, WSUS, and Federated Services.
- Design, implement and maintain virtual technology platforms and services (Hyper-V, VMWare, etc.)
- Administer servers, printers, routers, switches, firewalls, phones, smartphones, software deployment, security updates and patches
- Lead, manage, and mentor subordinate system engineering personnel
- Create and maintain technical documentation to ensure efficient planning and execution
- Flexibility in work hours contingent on needs of school district when needed (short notice and beyond school hours)
- Travel within the District required. Occasional out of District travel required as well
- Other duties assigned as deemed appropriate by supervisor
QUALIFICATIONS:
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- In-depth knowledge of public, private, or hybrid cloud computing (i.e., AWS, Azure, Google, etc.)
- Ability to proactively identify and address problems before they arise; analytically evaluate situations looking for better efficiencies; customer-focused and process-driven
- Ability to perform statistical analysis and evaluate results
- Strong coordination, organization, teaming, written and verbal communication abilities
Experience:
- Five (5) years of experience administering MS Server 2008 or higher and Active Directory
- Three (3) years of experience designing and implementing technology solutions that yield better productivity, utilization, and/or lower costs
- Three (3) years of experience in managing data center infrastructures
- Three (3) years of experience in managing, tracking, and applying Microsoft Volume License benefits and features
- Three (3) years of experience in leading and managing technology projects
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, business, or a related field or equivalent work experience
- ITIL v3 certification is a plus but not required
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) is a plus but not required
- CompTIA A+ is a plus but not required
- IT Infrastructure Library v3 (ITIL) is a plus but not required
- Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE): Core Infrastructure is a plus but not required
- VMware Certified Professional is a plus but not required
- Citrix Certified Professional is a plus but not required
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect is a plus but not required
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The characteristics listed below represent the work environment typically encountered while performing the essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
- Expected moving, walking, and standing consistent with an office environment and occasionally lifting up to 15 pounds
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms
- The employee is frequently required to talk and/or hear
- Specific vision abilities required for this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to a normal office environment
- Some travel may be required for training/meetings
NOTE: The above stated duties are intended to outline those functions typically performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This description of duties is not intended to be all- inclusive or to limit the discretionary authority of management to assign other tasks of similar nature or level of responsibility.
Education
To Apply
Please submit your resume and application using Workday, our online human capital management system. Please note that an offer of employment will be subject to the successful completion of an FBI/BCI background check and drug screen.
EEO Statement
We believe that equity and inclusion at CMSD is an essential call to action, a catalyst to ensure value and appreciation among all our employees, so we may be fair and welcoming now and in the future. CMSD provides equal opportunities for employment, retention and advancement of all personnel by administering all terms and conditions of employment regardless of race, color, ethnicity , ancestry, national origin, sex, disability or genetic information, age, citizenship status, military status, sexual orientation or expression, socio-economic status, title, other dimensions of identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The District’s Policy Prohibiting Discrimination, Discriminatory Harassment, and Sexual Harassment and the District’s Title IX grievance procedures, including information on how to report or file a complaint of discrimination, how to report or file a formal complaint of sexual harassment, and how the District will respond, may be accessed on the District’s Civil Rights Notices webpage, available at ClevelandMetroSchools.org/domain/105. The District’s Title IX Coordinator / Director of Equal Employment Opportunity may be reached at:
1111 Superior Avenue East, Suite 1800
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
(216)-838-0070