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Auburn University

Director of IT Infrastructure

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Auburn, AL

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $99K - $187K

💻 Information Technology

🗓️ December 10th, 2025

VMWare

Edtech.com's Summary

Auburn University is hiring a Director of IT Infrastructure to lead and manage the university's core technology infrastructure. The role involves directing network, cloud, virtualization, backups, and high performance computing to ensure secure, reliable, and efficient IT operations that support instruction, research, outreach, and administration.

Highlights
  • Lead development and execution of IT infrastructure strategy aligned with university goals.
  • Oversee network, cloud services, virtualization platforms, storage, backup, and HPC environments.
  • Ensure IT infrastructure availability, security, scalability, and disaster recovery.
  • Manage IT infrastructure team, including hiring, mentoring, and performance evaluation.
  • Support research mission with innovative HPC and virtualization solutions.
  • Collaborate with senior leadership and IT stakeholders for governance and strategic initiatives.
  • Required skills include expertise in network architecture, cloud integration, virtualization (e.g., VMware), storage, backup, and HPC.
  • Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree, 7+ years in IT infrastructure operations, 5+ years in IT management.
  • Salary range: $98,510 to $187,170.
  • Position reports to Deputy CIO/Executive Director for Technology Operations and involves participation in on-call support.