Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Campusworksinc in Mount Laurel, NJ

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer delivers network and systems solutions for higher education institutions. This role emphasizes in-depth, hands-on work in network and system infrastructure development, deployment, and support, with a strategic focus on performance, security, and scalability across managed services. The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will be critical in configuring and optimizing network operations, implementing advanced security measures, and supporting multi-tenant environments in both on-premise and cloud infrastructures. The Senior Infrastructure Engineer works closely with the Executive Director to implement institutional technology strategies and operational priorities while ensuring the stability, security, reliability, and performance of the institution’s technology infrastructure. This role serves as the operational bridge between onsite technical staff, CampusWorks Centers of Excellence (CoEs), institutional stakeholders, project teams, and external vendors to ensure consistent, high-quality technology operations and service delivery. The Senior Infrastructure Engineer is also responsible for ensuring the operational security, integrity, and resiliency of the institution’s infrastructure and data center environment. This includes oversight and coordination of infrastructure-related cybersecurity practices such as vulnerability remediation, patch management, identity and access controls, infrastructure hardening, backup integrity, disaster recovery readiness, monitoring, and adherence to established security standards and operational policies. The Senior Infrastructure Engineer partners closely with institutional leadership, and CampusWorks applicable Centers of Excellence (CoEs) to support compliance initiatives, risk reduction efforts, incident response coordination, and the implementation of security best practices across the infrastructure environment. The Executive Director of IT Services serves as the primary on-site, working technology leader dedicated to a single higher education client within a Managed Services delivery model. Working directly with our client’s Chief Information Officer (CIO), this role provides hands-on operational leadership, coordination, and operational oversight of enterprise applications and infrastructure services, with a particular emphasis on Enterprise Applications and Ellucian Colleague™ ERP environments. This position functions as both a strategic partner and an active, day-to-day operational leader, serving as the primary Managed Services leader on campus. The Executive Director ensures technology services are aligned with institutional priorities, while also providing direct leadership, direction, and escalation support to enterprise applications teams, particularly those supporting Colleague, and actively interfacing with the CampusWorks Centers of Excellence and Client Success teams and broader campus community. The ideal candidate is a collaborative and service-oriented IT leader with strong Enterprise Applications leadership experience, deep knowledge of Ellucian Colleague™ ERP, and the ability to lead by doing in a complex higher education technology and managed services provider environments.