Head of Cloud & Infrastructure Strategy

Moss & Associates; Fort Lauderdale (FL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Moss & Associates in Fort Lauderdale, FL, seeks a Director of Cloud & Infrastructure to lead enterprise networking, cloud platforms, servers, and core IT infrastructure. You will shape the infrastructure strategy, manage budgets, and drive reliable, scalable, and secure services.

You will partner with business, cybersecurity, and technology leaders to align investments with corporate priorities and oversee delivery across multiple teams and vendors.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in network, systems, cloud, and security.
• 7+ years of people leadership.
• Experience developing infrastructure strategy, architecture roadmaps, budgets, and exec-level recommendations.
• Strong technical foundation in reliable enterprise infrastructure in hybrid environments.
• Hands-on background in networking, systems, or cloud infra with leadership.
• Security knowledge including MFA, VPN, DDoS, vulnerability management, and risk mitigation.
• Certs such as CCNP, CISSP, GIAC, CompTIA Security+, Azure, or AWS preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for server, cloud, infrastructure, and network teams.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year cloud and infrastructure strategy, architecture roadmap, and investment plan.
• Lead, coach, and develop managers, engineers, and administrators; support workforce planning.
• Own cloud and infrastructure budgets, forecasting, lifecycle planning, cost optimization, and vendor performance.
• Manage strategic technology partners providing cloud, networking, data center and managed services.
• Define program scope, goals, risks, and success measures; communicate through lifecycle.
• Govern enterprise cloud architecture standards; partner with consultants when needed.
• Ensure SSO and proper identity access controls across solutions.
• Provide infrastructure leadership for business application integration as needed.
• Ensure backups, disaster recovery testing and resilience of infrastructure.
• Define and monitor SLAs, capacity, availability, and operational risk.
• Benchmark and improve reliability, security, and cost effectiveness.
• Develop annual lifecycle and technology refresh plans.
• Research emerging tech trends and practical adoption opportunities.
• Use monitoring platforms to report availability and performance.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud architecture

Budgeting

Vendor management

Hybrid environments

Networking

Security knowledge

Strategic planning

Executive communication

Project lifecycle

Education

Security certifications

Tools

Palo Alto Networks

Prisma Access

Microsoft Azure

AWS

Job description

Moss & Associates in Fort Lauderdale, FL, seeks a Director of Cloud & Infrastructure to lead enterprise networking, cloud platforms, servers, and core IT infrastructure. You will shape the infrastructure strategy, manage budgets, and drive reliable, scalable, and secure services.

You will partner with business, cybersecurity, and technology leaders to align investments with corporate priorities and oversee delivery across multiple teams and vendors.