Vice President IT Operations

Job Description

Delivering mission-critical, electronic solutions that protect lives. Use your creativity and critical thinking to take our products from concept to customer.

At CAES, we engineer solutions for the world’s most critical missions. We serve customers in the defense and aerospace markets.

Seeking a career that offers challenging, diverse projects and opportunities? Looking for a position with a company that offers long-term professional advancement? Searching for a place that values a diverse, team-based environment? One that values YOU. Consider CAES.

The most important thing we build is TRUST

Overview

Are you a strategic Servant-Leader? Do you value leading and inspiring your teams? #CAES is seeking a Vice-President of IT Operations. This is a key leadership position who will direct the teams in charge of cloud services, unified communications, network services, data center operations, servers and storage platforms, service monitoring, and service desk. This reports into the CIO and works closely with IT and InfoSec leaders, including enterprise architecture, information security and application development, to design and execute on the company’s technology roadmap. The role is a forward-looking technology leader who can develop an infrastructure strategy and drive through to execution and support. The Ultimate Vice President of IT Infrastructure is a member of the IT senior leadership team, and reporting to the CIO, the VP of Infrastructure and Operations is an influential role, making investment and priority trade-off decisions, negotiating and managing vendor contracts, and recruiting, retaining, and developing high performing teams. The role will provide vision and leadership to a team. This role is remote and can be based anywhere in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior management to establish a robust information technology roadmap and the company’s technology infrastructure vision, system architecture and lead all aspects of the company’s technological planning and development
• Create and implement technology strategies and align to the business and IT strategy
• Align the company’s technology resources with the organization’s short- and long-term goals
• Serve on the IT leadership to align technology goals to other departmental and organizational goals
• Proactively identify gaps, risks and issues and navigates organizational structure to resolve them
• Mentor and lead a team that is extraordinarily customer-centric, delivers business value and is well respected within CAES
• Ensures corporate infrastructure and services are secure, scalable, flexible and compliant by creating and working with technology team and InfoSec to implement a robust business security plan
• Supporting engineering teams
• Lead technical support efforts for partners and internal stakeholders
• Discovering and implementing new technologies that yield competitive advantage
• Attracting, retaining and developing high caliber talent across the IT Infrastructure and operations team
• Supervising system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency
• Building quality assurance, data protection and disaster recovery processes
• Develop succession plans, personal development goals, training and Leadership to the Infrastructure and Operations team
• Create and oversee high-level KPIs for IT Infrastructure and Operations
• Monitoring KPIs and IT budgets to assess technological performance
• Handle vendor relationships with all IT and Infrastructure suppliers
• Establish SLAs with technology partners and vendors
• Perform acquisition integration and due diligence as needed

Qualifications

Minimum

Preferred

Salary Range : $230,675 - $284,949 annually. Applicable pay within the posted range may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, geographical location, job function of the position, education, and experience of the successful candidate.

EMPLOYMENT TRANSPARENCY

BENEFITS

We take care of our people and provide competitive health, wealth and wellbeing benefits – from day one. You’ll also discover learning and development opportunities so you can take your career to the next level – and beyond.

Other benefits include :

ABOUT CAES

CAES is the largest provider of analog and radiation hardened technology for the United States aerospace and defense industry. From human spaceflight and space exploration, to missile defense and electronic warfare, to healthcare solutions addressing COVID-19, our talented team develop high performing electronic solutions that work the first time, every time.

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER

At CAES we welcome differences and celebrate new ideas. We believe the diversity of our people inspires our creativity and drives our innovation. Everyone is welcome here, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability for any part of the employment process, please email