Director of Infrastructure and Cloud Services
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As a key IT executive, the Director collaborates withleadership across the enterprise, IT teams, and clinical stakeholders in all areas of the medical center to develop and execute a modern infrastructure strategy, ensuring 24/7 service availability, optimal performance, and compliance with industry regulations (HIPAA, HITRUST, NIST). This position is responsible for leading a high-performing team of engineers, cloud architects, and infrastructure specialists, overseeing multi-cloud platforms, enterprise networks, compute, storage, and mission-critical applications such as Epic. The Director also plays a critical role in cybersecurity strategy, ensuring infrastructure adheres to InfoSec policies, risk management frameworks, and enterprise security initiatives. The ideal candidate is a strategic leader with a strong technical foundation, experienced in enterprise-scale IT transformation, cloud adoption, automation, and operational excellence in regulated environments 50% Strategic Leadership & IT Modernization * Develops and executes a comprehensive enterprise infrastructure and cloud strategy, ensuring alignment with companymission, patient care excellence, and research priorities. * Leads multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, and edge computing strategies, ensuring agility, cost efficiency, and scalability. * Drives infrastructure automation (IaC), AI-driven monitoring, and self-healing IT operations to enhance system resilience and efficiency. * Establishes long-term IT infrastructure roadmaps, ensuring future-proof architecture, compliance, and security best practices. 30% Enterprise Platform Engineering & Operations * Oversees the architecture, performance, and security of enterprise platforms, including: o Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) & hybrid-cloud strategy. o Enterprise networks, compute, storage, and databases (Oracle, SQL, Epic infrastructure). o Data center operations, ensuring high-availability and disaster recovery readiness. * Implements AI-driven observability and automation frameworks to proactively monitor and optimize infrastructure performance. * Ensures mission-critical application hosting, including Epic and high-performance computing resources for research. 10% Security, Compliance & Risk Management * Implements and enforces enterprise security policies, governance frameworks, and compliance mandates in collaboration with the Information Security team. * Ensures that infrastructure, cloud, and platform services comply with HIPAA, HITRUST, NIST, ISO 27001, and other regulatory requirements. * Plays a critical role in shaping cybersecurity strategy, ensuring that infrastructure security aligns with InfoSec policies, risk mitigation frameworks, and enterprise risk management initiatives. * Oversees the integration of security best practices into cloud, network, and infrastructure services, including zero-trust security models, identity management, and encryption standards. * Ensures business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) strategies are aligned with enterprise risk management initiatives to protect critical healthcare and research operations. Vaco by Highspring values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply. EEO Notice
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