Senior Director of Infrastructure Operations; Remote from

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As the new Senior Director of Infrastructure Operations you will be a pivotal senior leader that bridges strategic vision with operational excellence. While anchored in high-level strategy, this position requires a dedicated people leader who brings structure, clarity, and strong guidance to the organization. This leadership role is responsible for the design, performance, and resiliency of the organization's technology infrastructure, which includes network, firewalls, server and data center operations, databases, and disaster recovery/continuity of operations (DRP/COOP) planning.

This role involves ensuring the infrastructure upon which state services run is modern, highly reliable and secure. This role owns audit remediation efforts related to infrastructure and related security controls and ensures the organization's technology environment supports operational resilience and regulatory compliance. Beyond technical oversight, this role focuses heavily on cultivating high-performing teams, providing active mentorship, and fostering professional growth across leaders and staff.

The Senior Director of Infrastructure Operations translates business objectives into technology strategy, balancing long-term architectural vision with day-to-day operational excellence and team development. provide direction, design, and planning for cloud and hosting related services including but not limited to offerings such as:

• Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
• Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
• Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
• Database as a Service (DBaaS)
• Hybrid-cloud infrastructures including commercial cloud, and other shared hosting standard services and technologies, and cloud hosting migration planning and execution
• Dev Ops, Dev Sec Ops , Cloud Orchestration, and Immutable Infrastructure
• Software re-use, common applications frameworks, and common application deployment patterns including Dev Ops and CI/CD pipelines
• Multiple technologies used to provide enterprise class IT technologies and services, in a large multi-tenant, multi-department/agency cloud hosting environment

Some of the day to day opportunities for this role include:

• Develop and execute the strategic roadmap for network, server, data center, and database infrastructure in alignment with organizational goals and future growth.
• Own the architecture, performance, capacity planning, and lifecycle management of enterprise network infrastructure, firewalls, servers, and data center environments.
• Establish and enforce standards, policies, and best practices for…