Senior Director of Infrastructure Operations (Remote from anywhere in Colorado)

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As the new Senior Director of Infrastructure Operations you will be a pivotal senior leader that bridges strategic vision with operational excellence. While anchored in high-level strategy, this position requires a dedicated people leader who brings structure, clarity, and strong guidance to the organization. This leadership role is responsible for the design, performance, and resiliency of the organization's technology infrastructure, which includes network, firewalls, server and data center operations, databases, and disaster recovery/continuity of operations (DRP/COOP) planning. This role involves ensuring the infrastructure upon which state services run is modern, highly reliable and secure. 

This role owns audit remediation efforts related to infrastructure and related security controls and ensures the organization's technology environment supports operational resilience and regulatory compliance. Beyond technical oversight, this role focuses heavily on cultivating high-performing teams, providing active mentorship, and fostering professional growth across leaders and staff. The Senior Director of Infrastructure Operations translates business objectives into technology strategy, balancing long-term architectural vision with day-to-day operational excellence and team development. provide direction, design, and planning for cloud and hosting related services including but not limited to offerings such as:



A wide salary range is posted for this position and any job offer is based upon a salary analysis to comply with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. The salary analysis considers relevant experience, education, certifications, and state seniority as compared to others doing substantially similar work. While most salary offers are made within the posted range, occasionally an offer is made below or above the posted range based upon this salary analysis.

This is a skills-based job announcement. The required minimum qualifications and/or education (if substituting for the proven experience, knowledge, and skills), are as follows:

Minimum Qualifications:

A minimum of ten (10) years of progressive experience in IT infrastructure, network engineering, or systems administration, including experience with enterprise network architecture, firewalls, servers, data centers, and databases.

A minimum of five (5) years of experience directly managing technology managers/directors and multi-layered teams.

Demonstrated experience leading audit remediation efforts and engaging with auditors or regulators.

Experience developing and maintaining DRP/COOP documentation, leading disaster recovery testing.

Strong knowledge of server administration, network security principles, firewall management, and database administration.

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts for executive and non-technical audiences.

Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications. There is no substitution for any required management experience. 

Training or Certification related to the work assigned to the position will be assigned credit towards substitution for experience and/or education, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications. 

If the minimum qualifications include a degree requirement, additional appropriate paid or unpaid experience will substitute for the required education on a year-for-year basis.

Preferred Qualifications:

Relevant certifications such as CISSP, or vendor-specific network/security/database certifications ex. CCIE/CCDE, CCNP 

Experience in a regulated industry (e.g., healthcare, law enforcement, government) with formal audit and compliance obligations.

Direct experience with infrastructure: network, servers, alongside on-premises data center environments.

Proficiency in Enterprise Geographic Information System (GIS) infrastructure design, operational management, and scalable cloud-based deployment architectures.

Conditions of Employment:

OIT employees must comply with any screening procedures in place at state agency locations where they might perform work. 

A pre-employment background check will be conducted as part of the selection process. Post-employment background checks will be required for specific agencies as business needs dictate, which may include a polygraph exam, fingerprint-based criminal history search, reference checks, and a drug test.

This position may require travel within the specified geographic area, and to locations across the state as needed. 

If this posting indicates “remote from anywhere in CO” in the title, periodic reporting to the primary state work location designated for the position is required. All remote work must be performed in Colorado. 

While candidates from out of state will be considered for this role, the candidate selected for the position must relocate and reside in Colorado on the first day of their new position.  A reasonable timeframe for relocation will be established on an individual basis, while considering business needs, and determining a start date.

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The State of Colorado strives to create a Colorado for All by building and maintaining workplaces that value and respect all Coloradans through a commitment to equal opportunity and hiring based on merit and fitness.  The State is resolute in non-discriminatory practices in everything we do, including hiring, employment, and advancement opportunities.

The Governor's Office of Information Technology is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADA Coordinator at [email protected] or call (303) 764-7900.

This posting may be used to fill multiple vacancies based upon business need. 

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