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Auburn University

Director of IT Infrastructure

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Auburn, AL

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $99K - $187K

💻 Information Technology

🗓️ December 8th, 2025

VMWare

Edtech.com's Summary

Auburn University is hiring a Director of IT Infrastructure. The Director will lead, develop, and manage the university’s core technology infrastructure, focusing on network, cloud, virtualization, backups, and high performance computing to support research, instruction, outreach, and administrative functions.

Highlights
  • Develop and implement strategic vision for IT infrastructure aligned with university goals.
  • Lead and manage network, cloud services, virtualization platforms, storage, backup, and HPC environments.
  • Ensure reliability, security, scalability, and disaster recovery of IT systems.
  • Oversee major infrastructure projects including datacenter modernization and cloud integration.
  • Recruit, supervise, and mentor IT infrastructure team and manage personnel activities.
  • Support Auburn’s research mission with scalable HPC and virtualization solutions.
  • Collaborate with university leadership and IT directors to support governance and strategic initiatives.
  • Require a Bachelor's degree and at least 7 years of progressive IT infrastructure experience, with 5 years in IT management.
  • Advanced knowledge in network architecture, cloud integration, VMware or similar virtualization, storage, backup, and HPC.
  • Salary range from $98,510 to $187,170 per year.