Senior Director of IT Infrastructure, Cloud, & Platform Services (Administrator III)

Chico State•Saguenay, QC

1d•$176,412•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Director of IT Infrastructure, Cloud, & Platform Services provides strategic leadership, vision, and operational oversight for the University’s hybrid IT ecosystem, including cloud platforms, on-premises infrastructure, network services, data center, research computing, and enterprise hosting environments. This role is responsible for transforming traditional infrastructure services into scalable, secure, and resilient platform-based services that enable teaching, learning, research, and administrative excellence. The Senior Director leads the evolution of the University’s technology landscape toward cloud-first, automation-driven, and AI-enabled capabilities, while ensuring high availability, performance, and security of mission-critical systems. The position plays a key leadership role in advancing digital transformation initiatives, supporting data-intensive research and high-performance computing needs, enabling modern application development and integration environments, partnering on cybersecurity, data governance, and compliance strategies, and delivering reliable, customer-centered infrastructure services. As a member of the IT leadership team, this position partners across the University to enable digital transformation, data-intensive research, and emerging technologies.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or related field
7–10+ years of progressive IT leadership experience
Demonstrated experience leading cloud adoption or infrastructure transformation
Demonstrated experience leading enterprise infrastructure or platform services teams
Experience developing and operationalizing Disaster Recovery (DR) Plans and Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree
Experience in higher education or research environments
Demonstrated experience leading enterprise cloud transformation initiatives, including migration from legacy infrastructure to hybrid or cloud-based environments.
Experience implementing automation, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or platform engineering practices.
Experience supporting research computing, high-performance computing (HPC), AI/ML infrastructure, or data-intensive computing environments.
Experience managing cloud financial operations, technology lifecycle planning, or consumption-based technology budgeting models.
Demonstrated success leading organizational transformation, including modernization of technical teams, processes, and service delivery models.
Experience building collaborative partnerships across infrastructure, cybersecurity, enterprise applications, and customer support organizations.
Experience supporting complex higher education or similarly decentralized organizations with diverse stakeholder needs.

Responsibilities

Provides strategic leadership, vision, and operational oversight for the University’s hybrid IT ecosystem, including cloud platforms, on-premises infrastructure, network services, data center, research computing, and enterprise hosting environments.
Transforms traditional infrastructure services into scalable, secure, and resilient platform-based services that enable teaching, learning, research, and administrative excellence.
Leads the evolution of the University’s technology landscape toward cloud-first, automation-driven, and AI-enabled capabilities, while ensuring high availability, performance, and security of mission-critical systems.
Advances digital transformation initiatives.
Supports data-intensive research and high-performance computing needs.
Enables modern application development and integration environments.
Partners on cybersecurity, data governance, and compliance strategies.
Delivers reliable, customer-centered infrastructure services.
Partners across the University to enable digital transformation, data-intensive research, and emerging technologies.