Director of Technology - CyManII

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Salary Range:
Commensurate with education, experience, and qualifications.

Job Type:
Full Time

Posting Close Date:
This position will remain open until filled. At the discretion of the hiring department, this posting may close once a sufficient number of qualified applications have been received.

Required Application Materials:

• Resume is required.
• Cover letter is preferred.
• Contact information for three professional references.

Job Summary

The Director of Technology provides strong thought leadership and strategic, hands-on direction for CyManII’s infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud services, endpoints, IT projects, and emerging technologies. The Director anticipates evolving technology needs, shapes organizational strategy, and translates complex technical, security, and partner requirements into effective, forward-looking solutions. The Director of Technology champions flexible, collaborative, and iterative work practices through secure, reliable, and adaptable technology services.

As CyManII’s principal technology advisor and practitioner, the Director establishes a clear technical vision supporting CyManII initiatives while leading architecture, implementation, systems and cloud administration, endpoint management, troubleshooting, security operations, and incident response. The Director provides strategic and technical leadership to staff, vendors, and research teams and helps shape the technical direction of initiatives involving the U.S. Department of Energy, national laboratories, academic institutions, manufacturers, industry partners, and other state and federal agencies.

Success requires substantial hands-on technical expertise across a broad range of IT disciplines, combined with the ability to influence stakeholders, challenge conventional approaches, identify emerging opportunities and risks, and build confidence in CyManII’s technical capabilities and innovations.

Core Responsibilities

• Develops and executes technology strategies, policies, standards, roadmaps, budgets, and priorities that support CyManII objectives, including evaluating and deploying new technologies; balance strategic leadership with hands-on technical execution, end-user support, and operations; reports weekly to Leadership on status, plans, and complex issues.
• Architects, implements, administers, secures, and troubleshoots computer networks, servers, endpoints, identity platforms, cloud services, and collaboration systems while maintaining direct hands-on involvement in network engineering, systems administration, cybersecurity, cloud engineering, endpoint management, and end-user support.
• Administers and troubleshoots Linux and Windows environments (configuration, virtualization, IAM, patching,
  automation, monitoring, backup/recovery) and designs, configures, secures, and supports enterprise networks (routing, switching, segmentation, VPNs, wireless systems; Cisco and multi-vendor firewalls).
• Manages SaaS/PaaS/IaaS solutions with emphasis on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft identity, endpoint, security, productivity, and collaboration tools; evaluates cloud, software, AI, endpoint, and third-party services for security, privacy, data-governance, compliance, contractual, and supply-chain risks; maintains current
  knowledge of emerging AI developments for secure,…