Head of Infrastructure; Remote

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Cubic Corporation Company Details:
When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people's lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.
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The Head of Infrastructure & Platforms is responsible for the operational leadership, delivery, and continuous improvement of the organization's global infrastructure and platform services.

The role manages multiple technical disciplines, including cloud infrastructure, enterprise networking, identity services, endpoint management, server and hosting platforms, and related infrastructure operations. The postholder ensures that these services are secure, reliable, supportable, and delivered in accordance with approved business, financial, security, and compliance requirements.

Working within the direction set by senior IT leadership, the role establishes departmental objectives, operating procedures, work plans, and priorities; manages the department budget; allocates resources; and delegates assignments across experienced technical professionals and, where applicable, subordinate managers.

The successful candidate will combine effective people leadership with broad technical knowledge and sound tactical decision-making. The role is expected to resolve complex operational issues, deliver larger infrastructure projects, and translate approved technology plans into practical, measurable outcomes.

• Establish departmental objectives, operating procedures, work plans, delivery priorities, and performance expectations in line with approved IT strategy and organizational policies.
• Translate approved infrastructure roadmaps into operational plans, resource assignments, schedules, and measurable departmental outcomes.
• Make implementation decisions within delegated authority and elevate matters that require broader functional or enterprise direction.
• Provide recommendations to senior IT leadership regarding infrastructure architecture, operational risk, service improvement, and technology investment.

• Manage the reliable and secure delivery of enterprise networking, cloud infrastructure, data center and hosting services, identity platforms, endpoint management, collaboration infrastructure, and server services.
• Coordinate the work of multiple infrastructure disciplines and ensure clear ownership, effective handoffs, and consistent operating practices.
• Monitor service availability, capacity, performance, supportability, technical debt, and lifecycle risk, implementing corrective plans where required.
• Establish and review departmental KPIs, SLAs, operational health measures, and service improvement actions.

• Manage delivery of cloud infrastructure services across Azure, AWS, and related hosting environments in accordance with approved architecture and governance standards.
• Plan and deliver approved cloud migrations, platform upgrades, infrastructure rationalization, and legacy hosting reduction activities.
• Ensure cloud and hosting environments meet defined requirements for resilience, security, cost, supportability, documentation, and operational readiness.
• Work with application owners, architects, Security, and service providers to sequence and deliver…