Director, Cloud Platforms
Vizient, Inc
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Irving • Illinois, Montana, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $117,600 - $206,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudLinux
About the role
- Ensure that Vizient's enterprise cloud adoption strategy aligns with the organization’s vision and goals, leveraging best practices in cloud-based technologies.
- Lead, mentor, coach, a high-performing team of engineers and architects, fostering open communication and professional growth.
- Identify and support professional development and certification opportunities that enhance individual growth and overall team capability.
- Promote knowledge sharing, innovation, and the adoption of modern engineering practices across the infrastructure organization.
- Oversee the evaluation, selection, design, implementation, and maintenance of cloud-based and legacy infrastructure solutions.
- Ensure that policies, standards, and procedures for the enterprise-wide infrastructure lifecycle are continually updated, improved, enforced, and adhered to.
- Work with senior leadership to estimate costs of cloud-based infrastructure, including setup costs, monthly recurring charges, and labor costs for implementation and support.
- Develop and manage relationships with strategic vendors to provide access to expertise and cost savings to support Vizient’s data management and cloud enablement strategies.
- Serve as a visible leader and advocate for a growth-oriented and performance-driven team culture.
Requirements
- Relevant degree in Computer Science or related field preferred.
- 7 or more years of relevant experience required, including experience leading and developing high-performing technical teams.
- Proven success in coaching, mentoring, and upskilling engineering talent to support evolving cloud strategies.
- Hands-on experience in a cloud infrastructure role supporting application development is required.
- Experience with Azure and AWS in on-prem/cloud environments required.
- Skills with design and deployment of large-scale data applications and CI/CD pipelines required.
- ITIL or similar certifications preferred, Windows and Linux proficiency preferred.
- Familiarity with CoPilot, OpenAI and similar AI concepts is helpful.
- Ability to collaborate across multiple teams.
- Decisive decision making, excellent communication skills.
- You must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Benefits
- Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
cloud infrastructureapplication developmentCI/CD pipelinesdata applications designAzureAWSWindowsLinuxcloud-based technologiesengineering practices
Soft skills
coachingmentoringcommunicationcollaborationdecision makingteam leadershipprofessional growthknowledge sharinginnovationperformance-driven culture
Certifications
ITILcloud certificationsComputer Science degree