Director, IT Infrastructure

Reporting to the SVP of IT Infrastructure, the Director of IT Infrastructure is responsible for defining and executing the company's overall infrastructure strategy. With the overarching goal of driving infrastructure costs down and raising operational excellence, and the constraints of a hybrid environment with both legacy and modern applications, on-prem and in the cloud, this Director will lead the technical teams (both in-house and vendor) by providing a vision and a strategy to execute on it.

 

This Director will also drive alignment with application teams and the overall business goals and provide managerial direction to the technical teams through all aspects of infrastructure deployment and maintenance (including aspects such as security, resilience, and compliance), directing the research on technical solutions and developing staff to ensure that the infrastructure needs of the company are appropriately met.

 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Education:  Bachelorʹs Degree or professional level of knowledge in a specialized field, or equivalent related experience preferred

Experience:  9 ‐ 11 years or Masterʹs Degree equivalent plus 7 ‐ 9 years.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure management, cloud migrations and strong understanding of infrastructure as code (AWS-specific knowledge is desirable)
• Solid knowledge of network and security technologies, including those used in cloud environments
• Understanding of backup and disaster recovery technologies and strategies
• Understanding of cloud-native resilience patterns
• General understanding of virtualization technologies
• Experience with IBM Power (880, 980, P10) platforms preferred
• Experience with application servers such as Apache Tomcat, WebSphere is desirabl

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Passionate and inspirational leader who learns, remains adaptable and flexible in response to and in support of changing business needs, applying analytical and strategic tactics that result in efficiency, effectiveness and success.
• Deep technology knowledge and willing and able to seek out continuous learning opportunities to stay current in the industry and in technical skills.
• Brings strong engineering mindset and outside in perspective
• Ability to negotiate contracts & manage multiple vendors
• Make decisions that align with business goals and IT expense ratios.
• The ability to influence and get consensus from multi-functional leaders. Demonstrated capabilities managing sophisticated projects and initiatives across an organization.
• Have a tremendous passion and expertise for automation, innovation and buildi