Director, Infrastructure & Cloud Services

ATI•Dallas, TX

8h•Onsite

About The Position

The Director, Infrastructure & Cloud Services provides strategic, operational, and people leadership for ATI’s core infrastructure environments, including datacenters, servers, storage, network backbone, databases, backup/recovery systems, and cloud infrastructure. This role leads a multi-disciplinary engineering organization responsible for ensuring that ATI’s foundational IT platforms are stable, secure, scalable, and aligned with business needs. This role is onsite based in Dallas, Texas and reports to the Sr Director, DT - Infrastructure at ATI.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, or related field of study, or equivalent experience.
10+ years of experience in enterprise information technology with 5+ years in leadership roles overseeing enterprise-scale infrastructure services.
Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage a technical function.
Excellent communication, collaboration, and organizational leadership skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Expertise in infrastructure technologies
Strong financial management skills, including budgeting, forecasting, and vendor management.
Proven ability to influence change, drive modernization, and deliver large-scale improvements.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute the strategy for ATI’s back-end infrastructure services, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
Establish the vision and roadmap for cloud services, datacenter operations, server platforms, network services, storage systems, and database technologies.
Analyze key business drivers, emerging technology trends, and operational risks to inform decision-making.
Contribute to broader infrastructure and IT strategy through cross-functional leadership.
Provide direct leadership, coaching, and development for Infrastructure engineering teams.
Set performance expectations, conduct evaluations, and ensure alignment with ATI cultural and operational standards.
Build a high-performing team capable of delivering stable, secure, and scalable services that are aligned with business needs.
Foster collaboration across IT functions
Ensure high availability, resilience, and security of core infrastructure systems.
Establish and enforce operational standards, SLAs, and performance metrics.
Drive continuous improvement through automation, process refinement, and proactive risk mitigation.
Lead modernization initiatives and promote new technologies and engineering approaches that enhance efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
Ensure infrastructure systems comply with ATI security policies, audit requirements, and industry best practices.
Serve as the primary liaison to senior leadership, business units, applications teams, and plant operations for back-end infrastructure needs.
Communicate roadmaps, service impacts, and upcoming changes to executive stakeholders.
Influence and negotiate among multiple stakeholders to resolve complex infrastructure issues.
Track financial performance, forecast resource needs, and ensure budget decisions support long-term operational stability and innovation.
Evaluate vendor relationships, negotiate contracts, and ensure cost-effective solutions.