IT Operations Engineer

About INIT

INIT Innovations in Transportation, Inc.

is a leading provider of hardware, software, service, support, and operations management solutions for public transportation companies across North America.

As a turnkey supplier, INIT develops, produces, installs, and maintains integrated hardware and software solutions for all key tasks required by transportation authorities, including fare collection systems, passenger counting, CAD/AVL systems, passenger information systems, and other Intelligent Transportation System solutions.

Our Information Technology team designs, builds, operates, and maintains infrastructure in support of INIT software solutions deployed for transit agency customers in major metropolitan areas including Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, Portland, Tampa, Honolulu, and more.

Position Summary

The IT Operations Engineer is a member of the IT Operations team responsible for the ownership and operation of complex infrastructure systems and services supporting INIT's customer-facing transit technology deployments.

This position takes ownership of systems requiring ongoing judgment, architecture-level decisions, and active vendor management, operating with a high degree of independence and proactively identifying gaps and improvement opportunities across the infrastructure portfolio.

The IT Operations Engineer provides informal technical guidance to junior team members and collaborates closely with the IT Systems Engineering team on platform-level decisions.

Key Responsibilities

 Azure Operations

• Monitor Azure resource health, performance, availability, and cost across subscriptions; respond to alerts and proactively identify optimization opportunities.

• Author and maintain PowerShell automation for provisioning, configuration management, reporting, and remediation workflows.

• Manage Azure networking components including virtual networks, subnets, NSGs, peering, Azure Virtual WAN, Azure DNS, and Azure Private DNS to ensure secure and reliable connectivity across customer environments.

• Support Azure identity and access management including role-based access control, Managed Identities, and Key Vault access policies.

• Administer the broader Azure platform footprint, including Azure File Sync, Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, Log Analytics, Azure Storage, App Services, and (future) Azure Virtual Desktop.

Windows Server and Active Directory Operations

• Administer and maintain Windows Server environments including installation, configuration, patching, performance monitoring, and capacity management.

• Manage Active Directory infrastructure including user and group administration, Group Policy Objects, DNS, DHCP, and organizational unit structure.

Virtualization Operations

• Administer VMware vSphere environments including vCenter, ESXi hosts, virtual machine lifecycle management, storage, and networking.

• Monitor resource utilization and performance across VMware e...