IT Lead Campus Infrastructure

Role Overview: As an IT Lead for Campus Infrastructure at Daskalos, you will be the hands-on owner responsible for overseeing end-to-end campus IT buildouts and steady-state operations. Your role will involve being the on-site technical lead across various areas such as networking, Wi-Fi, AV/classroom tech, security systems, identity/endpoints, and run-ops. Your primary focus will be on driving quality, timelines, and ensuring day-one readiness for IT operations. Key Responsibilities: - Run site surveys, review HLD/LLD, coordinate MEP/fit-out, and produce BoM/BoQ deltas. - Oversee racks/IDF/MDF, structured cabling (TIA/EIA), labeling, copper/fiber certification, UPS/power, and environmental sensors. - Lead cutover planning, test plans/UAT, soak tests, and acceptance signoffs. - Deploy and operate L2/L3 switching, SD-WAN CPE, firewalls, VPNs, NAC/802.1X, VLANs/QoS. - Validate Wi-Fi design through heatmaps, AP placement, RF tuning, capacity planning, and captive portal implementation. - Install/maintain classroom AV, lecture capture, room schedulers, digital signage, access control/CCTV/VMS, and emergency paging integration with IT network. - Build images, manage MDM/UEM, printers, and shared devices, support SSO and directory integrations with LMS/SIS/library systems. - Run daily ops including monitoring, patching, capacity management, and asset/CMDB updates. - Drive SLA reporting, problem/RCA analysis, and continuous improvement. - Direct vendors on-site, verify deliveries, manage punchlists and RMAs. - Produce clear documentation such as as-builts, configs, diagrams, runbooks, and change records. Qualifications Required: - 6-10+ years of hands-on IT infrastructure experience with a background in setting up greenfield campuses or large offices in India. - Proficiency in networking, Wi-Fi, AV/security systems, identity/endpoints, and ops/observability. - Strong ownership, initiative, and quality orientation with excellent documentation and communication skills. - Certifications such as CCNP, CWNA/CWDP, ITIL Foundation, NSE4/PCNSA, MD-102, or VCP are preferred. - Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS or equivalent experience.,