Marist College Hiring for Director of Infrastructure at Poughkeepsie, NY Full Time

The Director of IT Infrastructure is responsible for the strategy, planning, design, engineering, compliance, and operational management of all aspects of IT infrastructure. This role has overall responsibility for the effective and efficient delivery of all IT infrastructure used to support business process and services across Marist College and affiliates.

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field and/or equivalent education, experience, and training.

Minimum 5+ years of progressive hands-on technical experience in IT infrastructure – architecture, systems administration, routing / switching, network design, database systems, virtualization, storage area networks, data center management, O365 and cloud services, etc.

Essential Functions:
Delivering mission critical infrastructure and ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance, and security

Monitor and report on the systems, storage, and backup infrastructure KPIs and SLAs

Collaborate with other leaders to optimize and improve system performance, functionality, and availability

Works with the IT team on the service portfolio and governance required to prioritize resources, including budget.

Ensure systems security, and protect information from accidental or deliberate loss

Develop a well-trained staff. Supervise the team to include selection, training and development, coaching, counseling, and performance management

Identify and manage risks from disaster events to acceptable levels, and monitor and report on ability of organization to achieve disaster recovery SLAs

Ensure non-interruptible service to all data center critical systems

Recommend, document, and oversee policies and procedures to meet industry best practices and to meet required SLAs

Prepare and maintain up-to-date documentation detailing the configuration of deployed solutions

Disaster recovery and business continuity

Develop and enhance recovery strategies to reduce recovery times for critical services and overall recovery times following loss of a data center or site location

Vendor relationship management

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in higher education is a plus

Experience and knowledge of:
z/OS, z/VM, KVM, VMWare, Hyper V, Windows 10, LDAP, Oracle, MySQL, MSSQL, and other relational DBs, IBM HMC and LPAR technologies, orchestration technologies including OCP & ICIC.

Enterprise Service Bus, Salesforce, J2EE, Web SSO, RACF, IBM z15 Crypto-accelerator, Transport Layer Security and X.509 Certificates

SAN Director, FICON Director, Spectrum Protect

System Lifecycle, patch management, ITIL, SIEMs, SNMP, Nessus

Required Application Documents:
Cover Letter & Resume

About the Department:
Make a reverberating impact as part of a team that is heavily involved in:

Operations Management

Education and Research

Innovation and Digital Transformation

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Cybersecurity

As Director of Infrastructure you will lead the design, implementation and continuous process improvement of the enterprise hardware infrastructure and data centers. This role will be pivotal in the adoption of hybrid cloud technologies to provide resiliency to our core systems and operations. You will be part of a team engaged in the digital transformation of higher education.

As a leader in educational applications of technology, Information Technology (IT) offers students, faculty, and staff access to advanced technologies to help promote a strong sense of community. A distinguishing feature of the Marist education is the manner in which information technology is used in support of teaching, learning, and scholarship. This environment creates a strong applied research culture and includes Marist students as young paraprofessionals which makes Marist unique within higher education.

Marist employees enjoy a highly competitive benefits and compensation package. We provide comprehensive benefits to eligible employees, their family members, and retirees. Benefits may include tuition, reimbursement, rich health insurance plans (medical, dental, vision), life and long-term disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, and generous retirement savings plans. Other benefits include discount programs, highly competitive paid time off, ample opportunity for community involvement, and local volunteer opportunities with foundations and non-profit organizations.

Marist IT staff come from diverse career and educational backgrounds. Our community of technologists collaborate to support a commitment to excellence with 80 staff members within 15 departments, more than 200 student paraprofessionals, and a 24/7/365 operation. Effort, talent, and commitment are rewarded and recognized within the division both internally by leadership, and externally through numerous industry accolades and awards. No two days are ever the same while working in IT. With our focus on enterprise technology and innovation, we are committed to finding more effective and practical ways to use technology to meet institutional goals.

We are looking for excellence, attention to detail, strong ownership of one’s work, and exceptional problem solving and project management skills. If you’re a critical thinker with the ability to solve problems independently and as part of a hard-working team, we welcome your application for this position as a Director of Infrastructure.

About Marist College:
Located on the banks of the historic Hudson River and at its Florence, Italy campus, Marist College is a comprehensive, independent institution grounded in the liberal arts. Its mission is to “help students develop the intellect, character, and skills required for enlightened, ethical, and productive lives in the global community of the 21st century.” Marist educates approximately 5,000 traditional-age undergraduate students and 1,200 adult and graduate students in 47 undergraduate majors and numerous graduate programs, including fully online MBA, MPA, MS, and MA degrees, and also Doctor of Physical Therapy and Physician Assistant programs. Additionally, our graduates go on to great success; 97% over the last five years are employed or in graduate school within six months of graduating. Marist is consistently ranked among the best colleges and universities in America by The Princeton Review (Colleges That Create Futures and The Best 386 Colleges), U.S. News & World Report (2nd Most Innovative School/North), Kiplinger’s Personal Finance (“Best College Values”), and others. Marist’s study abroad program is ranked #3 in the nation by the U.S. State Department and includes unique first-year programs in Florence and Dublin. At Marist, approximately 50% of graduates study abroad during their undergraduate experience. Its 30-year Joint Study partnership with IBM has brought the College the kind of world-class technology platform typically found at leading research institutions. Marist’s academic centers of excellence include the nationally-known Marist Poll, Center for Civic Engagement and Leadership, Hudson River Valley Institute, Center for Sports Communication, and Institute for Data Center Professionals. The College also hosts the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library’s digital archives, making it one of only six colleges or universities in the nation affiliated with a presidential library.

About the Hudson Valley Region:
The Hudson River Valley is known for its rich landscapes, sustainable-foods, diverse culture, and has a wide variety of vibrant cities and historic towns. Follow your sense of adventure, find great food around every corner, engage with a proud community, and be a part of history right at Marist in the heart of the Hudson River Valley. Poughkeepsie and surrounding communities are among the most diverse in the state with easy access to New York City by way of Amtrak or Metro-North train service. For more information about the Hudson Valley region and its major cultural and recreational attractions, visit the link below to learn more: https://www.marist.edu/hudson-river-valley-life

Type of Position:
Full-Time

Classification:
Administrative

Months per Year:
12

Hours per Week:
37.5

Work Schedule:
Monday – Friday | 8:30am – 5:00pm

Hybrid-Remote Eligible: This position is located in Poughkeepsie, New York and is hybrid-remote eligible with periodic on-campus work at the supervisor’s discretion.

Relocation: It is College policy to reimburse eligible newly hired full-time administrative staff members for reasonable expenses incurred in relocating to the area. To be eligible for reimbursement, new employees must move a minimum of 50 miles from their present home; must move within the first year of hire. Generally, the College will reimburse eligible moving and relocating expenses up to $7,000.

Location:
Marist College main campus, Poughkeepsie, NY

Compensation & Benefits:
The Director of Infrastructure position includes a competitive salary and comprehensive benefit package*. Benefits for this position include but are not limited to the following:

3 weeks of paid vacation. 4 weeks of paid vacation beginning in the 6th year of employment.

Unlimited paid sick time and unlimited paid personal time for use at the supervisor’s approval.

15+ paid holidays per year including Christmas Eve through New Year’s Day.

Medical, Dental & Vision insurance programs at a 15% employee / 85% employer contribution rate. Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Dependent Care (FSD).

Life Insurance

Generous short-term and long-term disability programs and workers compensation.

403(b) defined contribution plan:
First 6 years College contributes 7.5%, Employee contributes a mandatory 4%.

College contribution increases to 10.5% in year 7, and 12% after 15 years.

Employee contribution decreases to 1% in year 7. Remains 1% thereafter

403(b) Tax Deferred Annuity – Roth option available. Voluntary, up to IRS maximum contribution.

Tuition Benefits:
Up to 16 undergraduate credits per semester. Up to 18 graduate credit per academic calendar. Eligibility extends to employee, spouse, and dependent children under age 26.

College pays 100% tuition only

Eligible dependents may be Reimbursed up to $2,000 per semester towards tuition at another accredited institution

• Eligibility requirements including waiting periods and/or employee probationary periods may apply at the discretion of the College.

Number of Position Openings:
1