每日大瓜

每日大瓜 is seeking a senior, results鈥慸riven Senior Director of Infrastructure, Networking & Security to lead the strategy, architecture, and evolution of the university鈥檚 core technology infrastructure during a period of growth and institutional expansion. This executive鈥憀evel role is accountable for ensuring infrastructure platforms are secure, resilient, scalable, and future鈥憆eady, with primary responsibility for enterprise networking, cloud and hosting platforms, identity foundations, and infrastructure security.

A defining responsibility of this role is the development of a high鈥憄erforming infrastructure organization, grounded in industry best practices for engineering leadership, architectural governance, and talent development. The Senior Director establishes clear standards, roles, and expectations; invests in professional growth; and builds a culture of discipline, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement, ensuring infrastructure capabilities can be sustainably delivered at scale.

The role plays a critical part in enabling hybrid and multi鈥憇ite environments, supporting institutional growth initiatives, and integrating infrastructure associated with mergers, acquisitions, or strategic partnerships.

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Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure Strategy & Architecture

• Develop and execute a comprehensive infrastructure, networking, and security strategy aligned with institutional priorities, growth objectives, and risk posture.
• Lead the architecture, design principles, and long鈥憈erm direction of secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure platforms across cloud, hybrid, and on鈥憄remise environments.
• Establish multi鈥憏ear infrastructure roadmaps covering network modernization, cloud adoption, identity platforms, resiliency architecture, and capacity planning.
• Define and govern infrastructure standards and reference architectures that reduce complexity, technical debt, and institutional risk.

High鈥慞erforming Team Development & Engineering Excellence

• Build, develop, and sustain a high鈥憄erforming infrastructure and networking organization using industry best practices for engineering leadership.
• Establish clear roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and career pathways for infrastructure, networking, and platform engineering staff.
• Promote modern engineering practices including architecture governance, peer review, documentation standards, knowledge sharing, and cross鈥憈raining.
• Invest in continuous learning, professional development, and certifications aligned with evolving infrastructure and security needs.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement, avoiding hero鈥慴ased or ad鈥慼oc dependency models.

Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure Platforms

• Lead the university鈥檚 cloud and hybrid infrastructure strategy (IaaS, PaaS, and platform services), ensuring effective integration with on鈥憄remise environments.
• Guide architectural decisions for hosting, compute, storage, backup, and recovery platforms supporting mission鈥慶ritical systems.
• Ensure infrastructure platforms are designed for scalability, security, sustainability, and long鈥憈erm internal supportability.

Enterprise Networking & Connectivity Architecture

• Own the enterprise network architecture, including LAN, WAN, Wi鈥慒i, VPN, and secure remote access capabilities.
• Ensure network designs support distributed learners, faculty, staff, and hybrid sites with appropriate performance, segmentation, resiliency, and security controls.
• Guide adoption of modern networking approaches where they materially improve visibility, scalability, and security.

Infrastructure Security & Resilience

• Partner closely with the CISO to ensure security鈥慴y鈥慸esign is embedded into all infrastructure and network architectures.
• Own infrastructure鈥憀evel disaster recovery, business continuity, and high鈥慳vailability architecture, ensuring designs are viable, well鈥慸ocumented, and regularly exercised.
• Ensure infrastructure platforms support institutional regulatory, compliance, and audit requirements through secure and well鈥慻overned design practices.

Vendor, Investment & Platform Governance

• Provide leadership for vendor selection, contract oversight, and infrastructure investment decisions.
• Evaluate infrastructure technologies with a focus on long鈥憈erm sustainability, internal skill alignment, security posture, and total cost of ownership.
• Avoid solutions that introduce unnecessary complexity, fragility, or single鈥憄oint knowledge dependencies.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with the CIO, CISO, Applications, Data/BI, Help Desk, and Web teams to ensure infrastructure capabilities effectively support institutional needs.
• Clearly communicate infrastructure strategies, risks, dependencies, and investment tradeoffs to executive leadership and non鈥憈echnical stakeholders.
• Support institutional initiatives by ensuring infrastructure readiness, scalability, and long鈥憈erm sustainability.

Calificaciones

• Bachelor鈥檚 degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field; Master鈥檚 degree preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of progressive leadership experience in infrastructure, networking, and cloud platform roles.
• Deep technical expertise across enterprise networking, cloud and hybrid infrastructure, identity platforms, compute, storage, and resiliency architecture.
• Demonstrated experience embedding security and compliance into infrastructure architecture and platform decisions.
• Proven success leading major infrastructure modernization initiatives, including network transformation and cloud adoption.
• Experience supporting or leading technology integration related to mergers, acquisitions, or multi鈥憇ite expansions (preferred).
• Strong financial, vendor, and investment management skills.
• Experience in higher education or similarly complex, regulated environments preferred.
• Knowledge of regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g., FERPA, SOC鈥慳ligned controls, ISO鈥慳ligned practices).

Key Competencies

• High鈥慞erformance Team Builder: Develops strong infrastructure teams using clear standards, expectations, and continuous development.
• Infrastructure Leadership: Designs and governs durable, secure, and scalable technology foundations.
• Architectural Rigor: Thinks in systems, standards, and long鈥憈erm sustainability rather than short鈥憈erm fixes.
• Risk & Resilience Focus: Anticipates failure modes and designs platforms and teams for continuity.
• Security鈥慴y鈥慏esign Mindset: Treats cybersecurity as a foundational architectural requirement.
• Executive Communication: Clearly articulates infrastructure capabilities, risks, and investment priorities to non鈥憈echnical leaders.

The hiring salary range for this position is $120,000.00 - $135,000.00. The hiring salary range above represents the University's good faith estimate at the time of posting