Senior Director, IT - Data Centers and Cloud Services
Western Digital•San Jose, CA
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About The Position
Lead WD’s enterprise compute strategy and operations across on-premises, colocation, and cloud environments. Own the architecture, delivery, and optimization of servers, virtualization platforms, data storage platforms, and all IaaS cloud services supporting WD's global operations.
Requirements
- 12+ years in large scale enterprise infrastructure + 5+ years leading global teams at Director+ level
- Deep expertise in server architectures, virtualization platforms, and Linux/Windows administration
- Proven track record designing and migrating workloads to AWS/Azure/GCP at scale
- Strong understanding of data storage platforms, backup/recovery, and high-availability architectures
- Demonstrated success building business partnerships with executives and functional leaders with the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Experience with infrastructure automation tools and implementing Agentic AI for IT operations
- Proficiency managing colocation facilities including power/cooling requirements, network handoffs, and multi-site coordination
- Operational knowledge of zero-trust principles including micro-segmentation, least-privilege access controls, and identity-based security
- Track record implementing comprehensive observability platforms with automated issue remediation
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
Nice To Haves
- Manufacturing or storage industry experience
- Experience deploying hyperconverged infrastructure (e.g. Nutanix) at enterprise scale
- Knowledge of GPU compute and specialized hardware for AI/ML workloads
- Track record reducing infrastructure costs while improving performance and security posture
Responsibilities
- Strategic Leadership: Define and execute compute infrastructure roadmap aligned to business needs
- Drive cloud adoption for IaaS and related workloads while optimizing hybrid infrastructure costs
- Technical Ownership: Oversee physical/virtual server estates, VMware/Hyper-V environments, data storage platforms (object, block, file systems), and cloud compute (AWS EC2, Azure VMs, GCP Compute Engine, etc.)
- Cloud Governance: Establish standards for IaaS/PaaS consumption, FinOps practices, security controls, and architectural patterns across AWS, Azure, and GCP plus next-tier providers
- Automation & AI Operations: Drive infrastructure automation through Infrastructure-as-Code and orchestration, implement Agentic AI for predictive maintenance, automated remediation, and intelligent workload optimization
- Observability & Resilience: Build comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and telemetry systems enabling service self-healing, automated incident response, and sub-30-minute MTTR for critical outages
- Operational Excellence: Ensure always-on availability for mission-critical systems, Lead capacity planning, disaster recovery, and performance optimization
- Business Partnership: Serve as trusted technology advisor to business unit leaders, Translate technical capabilities into business value, Align infrastructure investments to revenue and operational objectives
- Colocation & Facilities Management: Oversee relationships with colocation providers, Optimize rack space, power, and connectivity, Manage contract negotiations and SLA compliance
- Team Development: Build and mentor a high-performing team of infrastructure engineers, cloud architects, storage administrators, and expert operations analysts
- Vendor Management: Negotiate enterprise agreements with hyperscalers, colocation providers, and hardware vendors
- Modernization: Drive containerization, hyperconverged infrastructure implementation and adoption, and AI/ML infrastructure initiatives
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
