Director, Infrastructure Operations & Strategy (Kennesaw, GA)

Artivion Overview: Headquartered in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, Artivion, Inc. is a medical device company focused on developing simple, elegant solutions that address cardiac and vascular surgeons' most difficult challenges in treating patients with aortic diseases. Artivion's four major groups of products include: aortic stent grafts, surgical sealants, On-X mechanical heart valves, and implantable cardiac and vascular human tissues. Artivion has over 1,600 employees worldwide with sales representation in over 100 countries.

The Company has manufacturing facilities located in Atlanta, Georgia, Austin, Texas and Hechingen, Germany. Additionally, it has sales and distribution offices in various countries throughout Europe, Asia, and South America. For additional information about Artivion, visit our website,

Position Overview: We are seeking a Director of Infrastructure Operations & Security to provide strategic, operational, financial, and people leadership for enterprise infrastructure operations, engineering, and platform services across servers, storage platforms, cloud connectivity, data center services, monitoring, service restoration, and related resilience capabilities. Cybersecurity remains an enabling discipline, with the Director accountable for ensuring appropriate controls are embedded into infrastructure architecture, operations, lifecycle management, and recovery practices.

Responsibilities:

• Set the multi-year strategy, standards, and operating model for enterprise infrastructure operations and engineering across compute, storage, cloud, data center, and core platform services.
• Lead the design, implementation, operation, and modernization of infrastructure services to meet availability, performance, scalability, recoverability, security, and supportability requirements.
• Establish governance for architecture decisions, technical standards, lifecycle management, service ownership, operational readiness, change readiness, and production support.
• Prioritize infrastructure operations and engineering initiatives based on business value, service reliability, risk reduction, regulatory needs, technical debt, and total cost of ownership.

• Own day-to-day infrastructure operations, including monitoring, incident response, change execution, service restoration, operational handoffs, and escalation management.
• Establish and manage operating metrics for infrastructure services, including availability, performance, capacity, incident trends, change success rates, aging problems, and service-level performance.
• Drive operational discipline through standard operating procedures, runbooks, knowledge management, event management, post-incident reviews, and continuous service improvement.
• Ensure infrastructure operations are aligned with ITSM practices and integrated with service desk, application, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, and business continuity processes.
• Lead infrastructure operational readiness for new systems, acquisitions, integrations, site changes, manufacturing/plant requirements, and major business or technology initiatives.

• Assist with infrastructure financial planning, including annual operating and capital budgets, multi-year investment planning, forecasting, and budget variance management.
• Manage vendor spend, licensing, maintenance contracts, cloud consumption, hardware refresh cycles, managed services, and infrastructure project financials.
• Partner with Finance, Procurement, Network, IT leadership, and business stakeholders to build business cases, track ROI, manage accruals, and support funding decisions.
• Identify and execute cost optimization opportunities while preserving resilience, compliance, performance, and service quality.

• Oversee architecture, build, configuration, patching, performance, capacity planning, operations, and lifecycle management of physical, virtual, and cloud compute environments.
• Ensure reliability and operational excellence across Windows, Linux,…