Director of IT Infrastructure

Director of IT Infrastructure

job summary:

The Director of Infrastructure is responsible for delivering reliable IT infrastructure, security administration and database operations to the company while advancing technology-related objectives, and effectively planning for the company's technology needs. This position is also responsible for providing functional leadership to the infrastructure, security administration and database teams.



location: Rochester, New York

job type: Permanent

salary: $120,000 - 130,000 per year

work hours: 8am to 5pm

education: Bachelors



responsibilities:

• Leads the platform infrastructure, database systems engineering, and platform operations.
• Provides leadership and mentorship to infrastructure management and team.
• Motivates and coaches employees to meet expectations for productivity, quality, and goals.
• Facilitates communication between staff, management, client and vendors within the organization.
• Determines key performance indicators (KPIs) for the Infrastructure team and ensures outward communication to the organization.
• Develops, executes, and manages IT objectives and strategies within corporate budgets.
• Oversees the design of the corporate network, VPN, internet and voice communication systems.
• Ensures appropriate IT tools, software, hardware and other technology are being used to streamline internal operations and are best optimized for performance.
• Evaluates the current architecture and design of physical deployments and identifies changes that may improve/advance these processes.
• Assesses and reviews the positioning of third-party hosting vendors, monitoring tools, and other solutions for hosting, monitoring, and securing the platform.
• Maintains working knowledge of public-Cloud architectures and emerging patterns in infrastructure design.
• Maintains platform requirements including scalability, data protection, systems performance, business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
• Participates in PCI compliance and annual attestation as well as other data privacy compliance programs.
• Maintains a working knowledge of database backups, implementations, system performance, access controls, and security.
• Remains familiar with tools and technology to assist with ETL functions.
• Contributes to direct database development when additional development capacity is required.
• Evaluates and contributes to existing and new relational database implementation.
• Supports the maintenance of on-prem non-production systems that support active development and testing.
• Evaluates the current state of delivery processes between software engineering, database, and infrastructure software release activities.

qualifications:

• Experience level: Director
• Minimum 7 years of experience
• Education: Bachelors

skills:

• Infrastructure
• asset managment
• IT Project Manager
• SECURITY
• Cloud
• AWS
• DevOps
• Database Administration
• INFRASTRUCTURE ADMIN
• SECURITYADMIN
• Azure
• Systems Analysis
• INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT MANAGER

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