Director of IT Services & Enterprise Cloud - Medicaid

S-R-International-Inc

Jackson (MS)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 190,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

State of Mississippi Division of Medicaid seeks a Director of IT Services to provide executive IT leadership for enterprise infrastructure, cloud services, and cybersecurity across the Medicaid program. You will oversee major IT operations, governance, and modernization initiatives to support critical state health services.

Reporting to the CIO/CTO, the role emphasizes cloud migration, vendor management, disaster recovery, and high availability.

Qualifications

10+ years progressive IT experience with enterprise IT operations and infrastructure.
8+ years leadership/management experience supervising technical teams and engineers.
2+ years AWS enterprise cloud experience (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch).
2+ years enterprise networking including LAN/WAN, DNS, load balancing, wireless, telecommunications.

Responsibilities

Provide executive leadership for enterprise cloud services, infrastructure, network, telecom, and IT service desk operations.
Oversee AWS environments, cloud migration, provisioning, governance, cost optimization, security, and resiliency.
Manage enterprise LAN/WAN, DNS, load balancing, wireless, firewalls, and telecom.
Lead incident response, major incident management, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
Oversee infrastructure operations including compute, storage, virtualization, backup, monitoring, and disaster recovery.
Partner with cybersecurity teams on HIPAA, CMS compliance, audits, risk assessments.