What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Information Technology position at Alpha Executive Search?
Job Summary:
The IT Director of Development, Operations, and Security (DevOps) plays a vital leadership role within the Chief Information Officer’s (CIO’s) team. This position serves as a key representative of the CIO, overseeing all aspects related to development and infrastructure. The role demands a strong technical foundation combined with the ability to collaborate effectively across departments to align technology initiatives with core business goals. The Director is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the organization’s technical infrastructure and security—including hardware, software, servers, databases, storage systems, networks, audiovisual equipment, and physical facilities—to support the district’s critical operations.
Responsibilities:
- Provides leadership, motivation, coaching, professional development and day-to-day support to foster an engaged work environment with a focus on customer service.
- The Director will oversee the selection, development, deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and enhancement of the company's applications and infrastructure.
- Manages the daily operations of the Enterprise Development and Infrastructure Group (applications, networking, server administration, database management, data warehouse)
- This position will directly and indirectly manage exempt employees and contractors.
- Implements and maintains all network services infrastructure with special emphasis on the security and stability.
- Provide guidance and counsel to the CIO and key members of the leadership team, in defining objectives for enterprise hardware technology initiatives.
- Compliance, disaster recovery planning and testing, auditing, risk management, business resumption planning, and contingency planning is important.
- Secure and effective access controls, authentication, password management, DNS, cryptography fundamentals, ICMP, IPv6, public key infrastructure, Linux, Windows servers, AVD, SCCM, network mapping, and network protocols.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in management information systems, computer science or closely related field.
- 10 years of experience overseeing development and infrastructure function.
- Experience in controlling information technology budget
- Experience in analysis, implementation and evaluation of IT systems and their specifications