Director, Cloud & Infrastructure

Moss & Associates (Construction)•Fort Lauderdale, FL

About The Position

The Director, Cloud & Infrastructure provides strategic and operational leadership for the teams responsible for enterprise networking, cloud platforms, servers, and other core IT infrastructure. The role develops infrastructure strategy and roadmaps, leads and develops technical staff, manages key technology partners, and oversees reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-effective infrastructure services. The Director partners with business, application, cybersecurity, and technology leaders to align infrastructure investments and capabilities with organizational priorities.

Requirements

12+ years of progressive technology experience focused on network engineering, systems administration, cloud technologies, infrastructure operations, and information security.
7+ years of people leadership experience, including leading, coaching, developing, and motivating technical teams.
Demonstrated experience developing infrastructure strategy, architecture roadmaps, lifecycle plans, budgets, and executive-level recommendations.
Strong technical foundation designing, implementing, and operating reliable enterprise infrastructure solutions in hybrid environments.
Career experience in a hands-on technical capacity, ideally in network engineering, systems engineering, or cloud infrastructure, followed by progressively broader leadership responsibility.
Working knowledge of network and infrastructure security, including next-generation firewalls, IPS/IDS, application control, digital certificates, proxy technologies, load balancing, network access control, MFA, VPN, security monitoring, traffic analysis, DDoS threats, vulnerability management, and risk mitigation.
Experience leading enterprise cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure and AWS, including governance, architecture, operations, cost management, and partner oversight.
Experience leading hybrid identity and infrastructure environments that include Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID.
Excellent program and project leadership skills, including responsibility for large, complex, cross-functional technology initiatives.
Experience managing operating and capital budgets, vendor relationships, contracts, service levels, and technology lifecycle investments.
Excellent interpersonal and executive communication skills, including the ability to translate technical concepts, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations for employees and leaders at all levels.
Ability to balance strategic planning with operational execution, manage competing priorities, and lead effectively in a dynamic environment.
Excellent judgment, creative thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading managers or multiple technical disciplines.
Relevant technical or leadership certifications such as CCNP, CISSP, GIAC, CompTIA Security+, Microsoft Azure, AWS, Palo Alto Networks, or comparable credentials.
Experience with Palo Alto Networks, Prisma Access, or similar enterprise networking and cloud-security platforms; prior implementation or operational leadership experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide strategic and operational leadership for server, cloud, infrastructure, and network teams; establish priorities, performance expectations, and accountability.
Develop and maintain a multi-year cloud and infrastructure strategy, architecture roadmap, and investment plan aligned with organizational growth and business priorities.
Lead, coach, and develop managers, engineers, and administrators; support workforce planning, succession planning, and technical capability development.
Own cloud and infrastructure operating and capital budgets, including forecasting, lifecycle planning, cost optimization, and vendor performance.
Manage strategic technology partners providing cloud computing, networking, data center, managed services, and other infrastructure services.
Collaborate with stakeholders to define program and project scope, goals, deliverables, risks, and success measures, and communicate throughout project lifecycles.
Establish and govern enterprise cloud architecture standards, using consultants and technology partners when specialized expertise is needed.
Ensure single sign-on (SSO) and appropriate identity and access controls are incorporated into enterprise solutions.
Provide infrastructure leadership for business application integration efforts as needed.
Ensure appropriate backup and recovery capabilities and oversee annual disaster recovery plan testing.
Ensure highly reliable, available, scalable, and resilient infrastructure supports the organization, its offices, and field projects.
Define and monitor service levels, performance indicators, capacity, availability, and operational risk; report results and drive continuous improvement.
Benchmark and analyze infrastructure services and recommend improvements to reliability, performance, security, scalability, and cost effectiveness.
Develop and govern annual lifecycle and technology refresh plans for aging or unsupported infrastructure.
Research and evaluate emerging technology trends and recommend practical adoption opportunities.
Use monitoring and management platforms to measure and report availability, capacity, and performance of networks, cloud platforms, servers, and related systems.
Ensure current documentation is maintained for network topology, cloud and infrastructure architecture, standards, procedures, and operational guidelines.
Partner with Cybersecurity to align infrastructure architecture, configurations, access controls, and remediation activities with security policies and risk-management priorities.