Director of Network & Data Center Infrastructure

Department/Unit:

Information Systems & Services

Work Shift:

Day (United States of America)

Salary Range:

$146542.00 - $234467.00

The Director of Network and Data Center Infrastructure is responsible for the architecture design engineering implementation security resilience and lifecycle management of Albany MedDirect Health Systems enterprise network and data center platforms. The role directs physical virtual hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud infrastructure strategy; establishes design standards; oversees operational reliability; and leads technical teams vendors contracts and statements of work. The Director partners with Information Security application teams clinical and business leaders and external service providers to ensure solutions are secure supportable cost-effective interoperable and aligned with organizational priorities.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

• Present architecture decisions investment options risks tradeoffs and recommendations clearly to executives governance bodies technical teams and customers.
• Build partnerships with clinical business application security facilities biomedical and service-management leaders to translate requirements into resilient and supportable infrastructure solutions.
• Assign accountable design authorities and ensure engineers produce complete documentation implementation plans validation plans operational runbooks monitoring requirements rollback procedures and knowledge-transfer materials.
• Lead coach and develop network and data center engineering teams client server team and datacenter team; establish role clarity succession plans cross-training technical standards and professional development paths.

PEOPLE GOVERNANCE & STAKEHOLDER LEADERSHIP

• Provide transparent reporting on architecture compliance capacity availability incidents lifecycle risk technical debt project delivery vendor performance and roadmap progress.
• Partner with Procurement Finance Legal and vendors on requests for proposal contracts licensing statements of work service-level expectations and performance reviews.
• Develop business cases and recommendations for platform consolidation refresh migration renewal or retirement using cost risk capability supportability and strategic-fit criteria.
• Maintain technology standards approved-product lists lifecycle roadmaps and exception processes for network and data center platforms.
• Lead rationalization of network data center virtualization monitoring automation and management tools to reduce duplication simplify support improve security and optimize licensing and operating costs.

SOFTWARE PLATFORM & VENDOR RATIONALIZATION

• Review cloud and data center designs for architectural fit operational readiness security financial sustainability and exit or portability considerations.
• Oversee hybrid-cloud network architecture cloud landing-zone connectivity routing segmentation DNS identity integration monitoring egress control and resilient connectivity.
• Establish workload-placement criteria based on clinical and business criticality data sensitivity latency availability recovery integration performance operational support and cost.
• Define secure connectivity and integration patterns among Albany Med data centers Microsoft Azure and other approved cloud services software-as-a-service platforms partners and remote locations.

CLOUD ARCHITECTURE & WORKLOAD PLACEMENT

• Ensure risks lifecycle exposure single points of failure and unsupported technologies are documented prioritized and communicated through actionable remediation roadmaps.
• Provide executive technical leadership during major incidents coordinating containment restoration vendor escalation root-cause analysis corrective actions and risk mitigation.
• Oversee high-availability backup connectivity disaster recovery business continuity capacity redundancy and failover standards; ensure recovery designs are documented and regularly tested.
• Partner with Information Security to define and enforce Cisco data center security standards firewall and access-control patterns secure remote access micro segmentation threat detection and auditable configuration baselines.
• Ensure infrastructure designs and operations support applicable Albany Med policies and healthcare privacy and security requirements including HIPAA and relevant NIST-based controls; coordinate PCI DSS requirements where payment-card environments are in scope.
• Embed security-by-design and zero-trust principles into network and data center architectures including segmentation least privilege secure management access encryption hardening logging vulnerability remediation and control-plane data-plane and endpoint protections.

SECURITY COMPLIANCE & RESILIENCE

• Provide design oversight for high-performance and low-latency networking including GPU and AI cluster connectivity where business and clinical requirements justify its use.
• Drive adoption of infrastructure-as-code network automation configuration assurance orchestration API integration and performance optimization to improve consistency deployment speed and operational reliability.
• Define target-state architectures and roadmaps for data center modernization consolidation workload placement private cloud public cloud connectivity edge services and platform migration.
• Provide architectural oversight for data center compute storage virtualization and hyperconverged platforms including VMware and Nutanix solutions and ensure alignment among server storage network backup security and application dependencies.
• Maintain expert understanding of Cisco data center and enterprise networking technologies including Nexus platforms ACI and NX-OS architectures EVPN/VXLAN fabrics routing and switching wireless SD-WAN network access control firewalls identity-based segmentation telemetry and management platforms.

NETWORK & DATA CENTER TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP

• Lead technical due diligence proof-of-concept activities vendor evaluations and design validation before production adoption.
• Chair or participate in architecture review and change-governance forums documenting decisions risks exceptions technical debt and remediation plans.
• Ensure designs include scalability capacity interoperability supportability observability security high availability disaster recovery lifecycle management and total-cost-of-ownership requirements.
• Oversee modern data center fabric designs and deployments including leaf-spine architectures EVPN/VXLAN high-speed core routing and switching segmentation multi-tenancy and resilient inter-data-center connectivity.
• Provide architecture governance across enterprise routing switching wireless data center fabrics Internet and WAN connectivity load balancing firewalls DNS DHCP IP address management network management compute storage virtualization and hyperconverged infrastructure.
• Direct the creation review approval and maintenance of High-Level Designs (HLDs) Low-Level Designs (LLDs) reference architectures standards and implementation patterns for on-premises hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud environments.

• collaborate with other health care organizations for best practices and knowledge sharing

Thank you for your interest in Albany Med Health System!

Albany Med Health System is an equal opportunity employer.

This role may require access to information considered sensitive to Albany Med Health System its patients affiliates and partners including but not limited to HIPAA Protected Health Information and other information regulated by Federal and New York State statutes. Workforce members are expected to ensure that:

Access to information is based on a need to know and is the minimum necessary to properly perform assigned duties. Use or disclosure shall not exceed the minimum amount of information needed to accomplish an intended purpose. Reasonable efforts consistent with Albany Med Health System policies and standards shall be made to ensure that information is adequately protected from unauthorized access and modification.