Senior Director of IT Infrastructure, Cloud, & Platform Services (Administrator III)

About the role

The Senior Director of IT Infrastructure, Cloud, & Platform Services provides strategic leadership, vision, and operational oversight for the University’s hybrid IT ecosystem, including cloud platforms, on-premises infrastructure, network services, data center, research computing, and enterprise hosting environments. This role is responsible for transforming traditional infrastructure services into scalable, secure, and resilient platform-based services that enable teaching, learning, research, and administrative excellence.

Responsibilities

• Supports data-intensive research and high-performance computing needs
• Enables modern application development and integration environments
• Partners on cybersecurity, data governance, and compliance strategies
• Delivers reliable, customer-centered infrastructure services
• Supports digital transformation initiatives
• Works closely with the IT leadership team to enable digital transformation, data-intensive research, and emerging technologies

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience leading: Cloud adoption or infrastructure transformation
• Enterprise infrastructure or platform services teams
• Experience in higher education or research environments
• Experience developing and operationalizing Disaster Recovery (DR) Plans and Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

Preferences

• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise cloud transformation initiatives, including migration from legacy infrastructure to hybrid or cloud-based environments
• Experience implementing automation, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or platform engineering practices
• Experience supporting research computing, high-performance computing (HPC), AI/ML infrastructure, or data-intensive computing environments
• Experience managing cloud financial operations, technology lifecycle planning, or consumption-based technology budgeting models
• Demonstrated success leading organizational transformation, including modernization of technical teams, processes, and service delivery models
• Experience building collaborative partnerships across infrastructure, cybersecurity, enterprise applications, and customer support organizations
• Experience supporting complex higher education or similarly decentralized organizations with diverse stakeholder needs