What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Infrastructure and Cloud Services position at Vaco Technology?
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As a key IT executive, the Director collaborates with leadership across the enterprise, IT teams, and clinical stakeholders in all areas of the medical center to develop and execute a modern infrastructure strategy, ensuring 24/7 service availability, optimal performance, and compliance with industry regulations (HIPAA, HITRUST, NIST).
This position is responsible for leading a high-performing team of engineers, cloud architects, and infrastructure specialists, overseeing multi-cloud platforms, enterprise networks, compute, storage, and mission-critical applications such as Epic. The Director also plays a critical role in cybersecurity strategy, ensuring infrastructure adheres to InfoSec policies, risk management frameworks, and enterprise security initiatives.
The ideal candidate is a strategic leader with a strong technical foundation, experienced in enterprise-scale IT transformation, cloud adoption, automation, and operational excellence in regulated environments
50% Strategic Leadership & IT Modernization
Develops and executes a comprehensive enterprise infrastructure and cloud strategy, ensuring alignment with company mission, patient care excellence, and research priorities.
Leads multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, and edge computing strategies, ensuring agility, cost efficiency, and scalability.
Drives infrastructure automation (IaC), AI-driven monitoring, and self-healing IT operations to enhance system resilience and efficiency.
Establishes long-term IT infrastructure roadmaps, ensuring future-proof architecture, compliance, and security best practices.
30% Enterprise Platform Engineering & Operations
Oversees the architecture, performance, and security of enterprise platforms, including:
o Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform) & hybrid-cloud strategy.
o Enterprise networks, compute, storage, and databases (Oracle, SQL, Epic infrastructure).
o Data center operations, ensuring high-availability and disaster recovery readiness.
Implements AI-driven observability and automation frameworks to proactively monitor and optimize infrastructure performance.
Ensures mission-critical application hosting, including Epic and high-performance computing resources for research.
10% Security, Compliance & Risk Management
Implements and enforces enterprise security policies, governance frameworks, and compliance mandates in collaboration with the Information Security team.
Ensures that infrastructure, cloud, and platform services comply with HIPAA, HITRUST, NIST, ISO 27001, and other regulatory requirements.
Plays a critical role in shaping cybersecurity strategy, ensuring that infrastructure security aligns with InfoSec policies, risk mitigation frameworks, and enterprise risk management initiatives.
Oversees the integration of security best practices into cloud, network, and infrastructure services, including zero-trust security models, identity management, and encryption standards.
Ensures business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) strategies are aligned with enterprise risk management initiatives to protect critical healthcare and research operations.
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