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Job Summary
The Sr.
Director, Infrastructure Services is responsible for providing strategic and tactical leadership and guidance in developing and coordinating all cloud infrastructure & operations strategies and solutions.
This senior leader is also responsible for coordinating with architecture peers from our software development and information security teams to ensure that quality, efficiency, agility, and security goals are achieved.
As a member of the technology leadership team, the role contributes to the development and execution of the Infrastructure & Operations strategy, ensuring its alignment with the enterprise’s technology needs and business strategy, and the delivery of capabilities required to achieve business goals.
DISTINCTION: This position is for a (Senior) Director of Infrastructure with a focus on cloud engineering and operations.
This senior leadership role is expected to proficient in in cloud engineering and operations concepts including, but not limited to, cloud governance, deployment patterns, provisioning, administration, tagging and management, infrastructure as code, compute, security group management and platform capabilities.
Job Description
Leadership: Oversee Infrastructure/Platform Services function by leading a team of associates.
Build organizational talent by creating a learning environment that ensures associates realize their highest potential.
Develop and communicate organizational objectives; inspire and motivate team members to achieve results. Create and execute tactical plan for the cloud engineering and operations teams.
Partner with strategic vendors in the realization of our strategy.
Participate/drive managing incidents and problem resolution, capacity planning/management, and availability management in partnership with key stakeholders.
Develop and execute operational and capital budgets for the function.
Technology: Maintain a comprehensive knowledge of current trends and developments and provide guidance and counsel to IT&O senior management and business groups on cloud infrastructure and platform technologies and issues to build better solutions that support and drive business decisions.
Lead transformational infrastructure project implementations, ensuring engineers fully leverage the technology for future solutions and designs.
Make technical decisions and work closely with cross functional business areas and IT groups.
Reports to: VP, Information Technology
Working Conditions/ Physical Requirements: Normal office environment, some travel may be required
Direct Reports: Leads a team of both direct (3-6) and non-direct (20-50) reports.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or related field
Fifteen or more with design, integration, and deployment of three or more of the following: implementation of Windows, Linux/Unix, Directory Services, Virtualization, Storage & Backup, and Cloud technologies.
Five or more years managing Infrastructure-as-a-Service or Platform-as-a-Service, and server-less cloud technologies.
Twelve or more years of experience full network stack (WAN/LAN, network segmentation, Firewall, DNS, DHCP).
Preferred Experience:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or related field:
Fifteen or more with design, integration, and deployment of three or more of the following: implementation of Windows, Linux/Unix, Directory Services, Virtualization, Storage & Backup, and Cloud technologies.
Five or more years managing Infrastructure-as-a-Service or Platform-as-a-Service, and server-less cloud technologies.
Twelve or more years of experience full network stack (WAN/LAN, network segmentation, Firewall, DNS, DHCP).
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree (Required)
Certifications:
Work Experience
Fifteen or more years
Skills
Agile Methodologies, Budget Management, Capacity Management, Capacity Planning, Cloud Technology, Containerization, DevOps, Directory Services, DNS Management, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Employee Engagement, Firewalls, Full Stack Development, Information Technology (IT), IT Deployment, It Design, LAN WAN, Linux Unix, Managed Service Providers, Matrix Organizations, Microsoft Windows, Network Segmentation, Systems Integration, Vendor Management, Virtualization
About Alliance Data Card Services
Alliance Data Card Services provides market-leading private label, co-brand, general purpose and commercial credit card programs, digital payments and Comenity-branded financial services.
Using the industry’s most comprehensive and predictive data set, advanced analytics, and broad-reaching capabilities, Alliance Data Card Services has been helping partners increase sales and provide greater value to their customers for more than 30 years.
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About Bread ®
A division of Alliance Data, Bread is a leading digital payments company that works with merchants and partners to personalize payment options for their customers.
Through its full-funnel recommendation engine, Bread empowers merchants to sell more, improve conversion and lift average-order-value.
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Alliance Data Card Services and Bread are a proud part of the Alliance Data enterprise, a FORTUNE 500 and S&P MidCap 400 company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio with approximately 8,000 associates worldwide.
Alliance Data offers a competitive salary, a comprehensive selection of benefit options including 401(k).
All job offers are contingent upon successful completion of credit and background checks.
Alliance Data is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Alliance Data will provide accommodations to applicants needing accommodations to complete the application process.
Any applicant offered employment will be required to establish that they are legally authorized to work in the United States for Alliance Data.
Alliance Data participates in E-Verify.
Alliance Data will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal and credit histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
Alliance Data complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended, and all applicable state/local laws.
Applicants with disabilities may contact Alliance Data to request an arrange for accommodations. If you need assistance to accommodate a disability, you may request an accommodation at any time.
Please contact the Recruiting Team at TaOps@alliancedata.com .
Job Family:
Information Technology
Job Type:
Regular
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