Sr. Director, Modern Work, Infrastructure and Operations

Endo Pharmaceuticals; Hazelwood (MO); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Par Health, based in Hazelwood, MO, is seeking a Sr Director, Modern Work, Cloud Infrastructure, Operations to lead strategy and modernization of enterprise infrastructure across Azure, data center, and networks. This role focuses on security, compliance, automation, and cost optimization to enable digital and AI transformation.

The successful candidate will collaborate with cybersecurity, architecture, compliance, and finance teams to drive resilience, service reliability, and governance for

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading cloud infrastructure in large enterprises.
• Strong familiarity with Azure and AI workloads.
• Ability to collaborate with security, compliance and governance teams.

Responsibilities

• Defines and leads modern work and enterprise infrastructure strategy with a cloud-first approach.
• Establishes standards, policies, roadmaps for cloud platforms and networks.
• Drives modernization toward secure, resilient, cost-effective cloud services.
• Partners with cybersecurity, compliance and quality teams to embed secure-by-design practices.
• Develops measurable service outcomes and executive reporting linking infra to business value.
• Leads AI infrastructure strategy, including Azure AI, model hosting, and data integration.
• Ensures AI infra is reliable, observable, and cost-managed.
• Oversees migration and modernization initiatives.

Skills

Cloud strategy

Azure

AI infrastructure

MLOps

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Why Us?

At Par Health, we believe great healthcare is built on getting the essentials right. We're looking for passionate, talented individuals who share our commitment to improving lives. With a global workforce, we lead with pride and purpose-prioritizing quality and safety while fostering a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and teamwork. Elevating the Essentials isn't just our tagline, it's the higher standard we live by every day.

Job Description Summary

The Sr Director, Modern Work, Cloud Infrastructure, Operations will lead the strategy, modernization, operation, security, resilience and financial performance of the company's enterprise modern work, infrastructure services across cloud, data center, network, end-user computing, collaboration, identity, AI infrastructure and service management capabilities. This leader will establish and execute a modern cloud and AI-ready operating model with a strong emphasis on Microsoft Azure, Azure AI services, hyper scaler platforms, regulated-industry controls, automation, managed services, vendor governance, service reliability, disaster recovery, and cost optimization. The role is accountable for scalable, secure and compliant infrastructure services that enable business objectives, support digital and AI transformation, and meet required service levels. This position works closely with business leaders, cybersecurity, architecture, application teams, data and analytics teams, quality, compliance, finance, external auditors, strategic vendors and managed service providers, and reports to the Chief Information Officer.

Job Description

Essential Functions

Accountability

Cloud Infrastructure and Operations Strategy

• Defines and leads the modern work and enterprise infrastructure and operations strategy, with a modern cloud-first approach anchored in Microsoft Azure and other hyper scaler capabilities as appropriate.
• Establishes architecture standards, operating models, policies and roadmaps for cloud platforms, data center services, networks, identity and access, endpoint services, collaboration platforms, backup and recovery, monitoring, service desk, patching, automation and operational tooling.
• Drives modernization from legacy infrastructure toward secure, resilient, scalable and cost-effective cloud and hybrid-cloud services, including migration planning, landing-zone governance, subscription management, workload placement, lifecycle management and technical debt reduction.
• Partners with cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, compliance and quality teams to embed secure-by-design, compliant-by-design and audit-ready practices into infrastructure operations, including GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, SOX and other applicable regulatory expectations.
• Develops measurable service outcomes, operational risk indicators, resiliency objectives and executive reporting that connect infrastructure performance to business value.

AI Infrastructure, Platform Enablement and Governance:

• Leads the infrastructure strategy required to support enterprise AI capabilities, including secure compute, storage, networking, identity, monitoring, model hosting, API management, data connectivity and integration with approved AI platforms.
• Partners with enterprise architecture, data and analytics, cybersecurity, legal, quality and compliance teams to establish AI-ready cloud patterns, reference architectures and guardrails for production AI workloads.
• Oversees operational enablement for Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, machine learning platforms, retrieval-augmented generation services, vector databases, prompt and model management tools, and approved third-party AI services as applicable.
• Supports MLOps, LLMOps and AI platform operations by enabling governed deployment pipelines, environment management, model/version tracking, monitoring, auditability, access controls, release management and rollback practices.
• Ensures AI infrastructure is reliable, observable, resilient and cost-managed, including monitoring for service availability, latency, capacity, token or consumption trends, cost anomalies, vendor performance and operational risk.
• Helps establish operating procedures for AI infrastructure incident response, model service outages, provider degradation, security events, capacity constraints, governance exceptions and regulated change control.

Cloud Infrastructure, Operations and Service Management:

• Owns day-to-day operation, performance, availability and continuous improvement of enterprise infrastructure services across Azure, hybrid cloud, data center, network, identity, endpoint, collaboration, database, AI infrastructure, backup/recovery and service management environments.
• Leads cloud platform governance, including Azure landing zones, management groups, subscriptions, policies, tagging, privileged access, monitoring, logging, automation, disaster recovery, operational standards and AI workload enablement patterns.
• Oversees migration and modernization initiatives that improv