Senior Director of IT Infrastructure, Cloud Platform Services; Administrator III

Senior Director of IT Infrastructure, Cloud, & Platform Services (Administrator III)

Job no: 558029
Work type: Management (MPP)
Location: Chico
Categories: MPP, Administrative, At-Will, Full Time, Information Systems & Technology

• Lead the transformation of traditional infrastructure services into scalable, secure, and resilient platform-based services that enable teaching, learning, research, and administrative excellence.
• Drive the evolution of the university’s technology landscape toward cloud‑first, automation‑driven, and AI‑enabled capabilities while ensuring high availability, performance, and security of mission‑critical systems.
• Partner across the university to enable digital transformation, data‑intensive research, and emerging technologies.
• Support data‑intensive research and high‑performance computing needs.
• Enable modern application development and integration environments.
• Collaborate on cybersecurity, data governance, and compliance strategies.
• Deliver reliable, customer‑centered infrastructure services.

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field (Master’s preferred).
• 7–10+ years of progressive IT leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading cloud adoption or infrastructure transformation.
• Experience leading enterprise infrastructure or platform services teams.
• Experience developing and operationalizing Disaster Recovery (DR) Plans and Business Impact Analysis (BIA).
• Experience in higher education or research environments strongly preferred.

• Experience leading enterprise cloud transformation initiatives, including migration from legacy infrastructure to hybrid or cloud‑based environments.
• Experience implementing automation, Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC), Dev Ops, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or platform engineering practices.
• Experience supporting research computing, high‑performance computing (HPC), AI/ML infrastructure, or data‑intensive computing environments.
• Experience managing cloud financial operations, technology lifecycle planning, or consumption‑based technology budgeting models.
• Demonstrated success leading organizational transformation, including modernization of technical teams, processes, and service delivery models.
• Experience building collaborative partnerships across infrastructure, cybersecurity, enterprise applications, and customer support organizations.
• Experience supporting complex higher education or similarly decentralized organizations with diverse stakeholder needs.

Time Base: Full‑time
Pay Plan: 12/12
Anticipated Hiring Range: Up to $176,412 per year, commensurate with education and experience.
Benefits: Tuition fee waiver (if eligible).

The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, medical condition, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected status.