Director IT Engineering

General Summary

The Director of IT Infrastructure & Engineering is responsible for defining and executing Penumbra's global infrastructure strategy, delivering secure, scalable, resilient, and AI-ready technology platforms supporting worldwide operations. The role leads enterprise infrastructure, cloud, networking, workplace technologies, identity management, infrastructure security, and engineering operations while driving modernization through cloud transformation, automation, AI-enabled operations, and operational excellence.

• Select, manage, train, and develop staff. Establishobjectivesand assignments and provide ongoing feedback through performance reviews and development plans. *

• Recruit, develop, mentor, and lead high-performing Infrastructure & Engineering teams.*

• Collaborate with business and IT leaders to deliver secure, reliable, and scalablesolutions. *

• Ensure compliance with QMS, security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.

• Perform other work-related duties as assigned.

• Develop and execute Penumbra's enterprise infrastructure strategy aligned with business objectives.

• Lead the architecture, engineering, implementation, and operation of enterprise infrastructure, cloud, networking, collaboration, identity, and endpoint platforms.

• Drive modernization through cloud-first, automation-first, and AI-first initiatives.

• Establish architecture standards, governance, operational excellence, and engineering best practices.

• Lead enterprise cloud, collaboration, identity, endpoint, and infrastructure services across hybrid environments.

• Develop cloud governance, resilience, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and cost optimization strategies.

• Ensure infrastructure platforms meet business continuity, security, and regulatory requirements.

• Provide leadership for global network infrastructure supporting corporate, manufacturing, and remote operations.

• Partner with Information Security to strengthen Zero Trust architecture, infrastructure security, identity management, and compliance.

• Champion Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, observability, and AI-powered operations.

• Partner with Data & AI teams to build scalable infrastructure supporting enterprise AI initiatives.

• Lead disaster recovery, business continuity, service management, operational metrics, and continuous improvement.

• Manage strategic vendors, technology roadmaps, and infrastructure investments.

• Adhere to the Company’s Quality Management System (QMS) as well as domestic and global quality system regulations, standards, and procedures. *

• Understand relevant security, privacy, and compliance principles and adhere to the regulations, standards, and procedures that are applicable to the Company. *

• Ensure other members of the department to follow the QMS, regulations, standards, and procedures. *

• Perform other work-related duties as assigned.

* Indicates an essential function of the role

Minimum education and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related field with 15+ years of experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience

Additional qualifications:

• Master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field is preferred

• 15+ years of proven experience in IT Infrastructure Management, with a strong technical background in Datacenter design, Business Continuity Planning, Incident Management, and Configuration management.

• Any one or two certifications in relevant IT domains are highly desirable (ITIL, CISSP, CISA, CISM, CCNP, CCSP, CDCP, Azure, AWS, GCP).

• Expertise in Network Operations Center (NOC), Project Management, Security Operations, Information Security, and Compliance Management.

• Demonstrated leadership in managing teams and providing innovative solutions to complex IT challenges.

• Partners well with cross-functional teams to solve hard problems and to complete complex deliverables with quality and business outcomes.

• 8+ years of experience in a supervisory role desired

• Strong communication and…