Director Infrastructure & Cloud

Key Responsibilities

• Develop/execute infrastructure strategy while maintaining world class Operations for GE Appliances
• Develop multi-year cloud and infrastructure roadmaps, vision and work with individual architects to translate strategies into tactical engineering blueprints.
• Drive world class operations using AI tools and ensure we root cause and automate operational tasks.
• Create a vision for enabling AI and using advanced tools to revitalize infrastructure and cloud services.
• Architect and direct the execution of short- and long-term strategic plans to assure infrastructure capacity meets current and future needs to support GEA’s growth trajectory.
• Provide leadership by joining bridges for all critical infrastructure incidents as necessary to assess impact, coordinate response efforts, help with escalations, communicate status, resolution progress to senior leadership and key stakeholders.
• Accountable to improve key operational metrics and timely approvals of invoices and validating spend.
• Enable a multi-cloud strategy to efficiently leverage the strengths of AWS, GCP and OCI at the best cost.
• Devise migration plans to effectively use compute, storage and other infrastructure related services across our public, private and DR clouds/datacenters.
• Leverage and upgrade the existing Active Directory environment to take advantage of the new capabilities.
• Facilitate the elimination of legacy data centers and migrate to future ready cloud infrastructure.
• Guide the development and execution of procedures, policies, RACI and related training plans for project management and infrastructure administration.
• Manage and establish priorities for maintenance, design, development and analysis of entire infrastructure systems inclusive of LANs, WANs, internet, security and wireless implementations.
• Conduct research and recommend changes in services, products, protocols and standards to support development efforts and infrastructure procurement.
• Present to C-Suite leaders and technical decision makers while providing appropriate thought leadership and creative insights when needed.
• Lead the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry and market trends to assist in solution implementation and/or operational support across multiple teams.

What You'll Bring to Our Team

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or equivalent
• Minimum of 10 years of prior relevant experience in roles of increasing responsibility within infrastructure architecture and design
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience leading an IT Infrastructure architecture and operations or related team(s) with experience operating at a senior manager-level or above
• Advanced technical depth and knowledge of cloud, database, integrations, network, compute and storage
• Strong ability to influence and guide executive-level managers and reconcile, integrate competing interests
• Data driven decision making skills
• Possesses the self-discipline to take actions before they are necessary, optimism towards achieving positive outcome and the competitiveness to translate a plan into action
• Strong problem solving, analytic, and project management skills
• Goal-oriented and proactive in problem solving, coupled with creativity and a high energy level
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills
• Possess exceptional leadership skills; inclusive, people-focused technology leader who serves as mentor and coach to his/her team
• Avid learner and stays current on industry trends and best practices
• Ability and willingness to: Join critical outage bridges when called in and communicate with stakeholders, work occasionally on weekends and/or evenings, and travel for domestic and/or international travel to customer sites/ plants, etc. (10%)