Executive Director Infrastructure

Requirements

• Define the multi-year infrastructure strategy and target architecture
• Establish architecture and guardrails for workloads across IaaS, PaaS, and containers
• Drive modernization: migrate legacy systems, rationalize data centers, and adopt infrastructure-as-code and automation at scale
• Own availability SLOs for network, compute, storage, and core services
• Design resilient topologies to meet RTO/RPO targets
• Implement proactive capacity planning, performance engineering, and observability
• Partner with Security to architect and enforce zero-trust principles across identity, endpoint, and network layers
• Implement cloud security controls
• Ensure vulnerability management, patching, configuration baselines and secure secrets management
• Support regulatory and audit readiness (SOC 1 & 2, GLBA, PCI, GDPR where relevant) through control design and evidence
• Own enterprise network architecture: SD-WAN, hybrid connectivity, segmentation, QoS, and internet egress
• Ensure high availability and security of network services
• Institutionalize Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and configuration management
• Standardize golden images/base builds, immutable infrastructure, automated patching, and blue/green or canary deployments
• Establish SRE practices: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident management, post-mortems, and reliability backlogs
• Manage vendor relationships, contracts, and cost optimization
• Maintain accurate CMDB, asset inventories, and dependency maps
• Build and lead a high-performing team; attract, develop, and retain top infrastructure and cloud talent
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Application Development, Data, Security, and Business stakeholders to align platforms with product and risk needs
• Communicate clearly to executive leadership on roadmap, risk posture, and investment priorities