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The Director, Cloud Infrastructure will be responsible for the technology strategy, security and enforcement of governance, integration execution and support for a cloud-based compute, storage infrastructure as well as network and voice/telephony. We are looking for a forward-thinking technical leader who can build and lead cloud infrastructure strategy and execution. This role requires strong understanding and knowledge of cloud infrastructure, networking and voice/telephony. This role requires working very closely with business and technical partners across Convera strategizing on tool selection and implementation and integration programs.\nResponsibilities:\nOwn the technical direction, strategy, architecture, and execution roadmap for enterprise infrastructure, including cloud compute, storage, databases, middleware, networking, telecommunications, and supporting infrastructure services.\nDefine infrastructure architecture, engineering standards, reference architectures, technology roadmaps, and platform lifecycle strategies aligned with business and technology objectives.\nProvide technical and organizational leadership for infrastructure engineering and administration, establishing scalable engineering and operating practices.\nLead enterprise infrastructure transformation and modernization programs, developing multi-year roadmaps, investment priorities, migration strategies, and measurable execution plans.\nDrive cloud strategy and adoption, including architecture, governance, security, scalability, resilience, observability, and optimization of AWS infrastructure.\nEvaluate, recommend, and govern infrastructure platforms and technologies, including technical due diligence, architecture reviews, integration strategy, and vendor selection.\nPartner with application engineering, architecture, security, operations, data, and business teams to ensure infrastructure capabilities support current and future business needs.\nLead, develop, and mentor infrastructure engineering leaders and technical specialists, building organizational capability, succession plans, and a strong engineering culture.\nBe accountable for infrastructure availability, reliability, scalability, performance, resilience, disaster recovery, capacity, and operational health.\nDrive infrastructure automation and standardization, including Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, automated provisioning, self-service infrastructure, and repeatable engineering patterns.\nEstablish infrastructure observability and operational KPIs, including availability, performance, capacity, incidents, recovery, security, change success, and service health, partnering with Technology Operations on enterprise reporting.\nOwn infrastructure financial management and FinOps practices, including budgeting, forecasting, cost allocation, optimization, cloud consumption governance, vendor spending, and capacity planning.\nPartner with cybersecurity and risk organizations to implement infrastructure security controls, vulnerability remediation, compliance requirements, identity and access standards, and technology risk management.\nEstablish infrastructure resilience and disaster recovery strategies, including recovery objectives, testing, business continuity alignment, and remediation of identified risks.\nManage strategic technology vendors and partners, including technology evaluation, commercial negotiations, performance management, and long-term vendor strategy.\nABOUT IDEAL CANDIDATE\nMinimum Qualifications:\nDemonstrated experience leading enterprise infrastructure organizations supporting thousands of employees and large-scale customer-facing technology environments.\nDeep experience with AWS infrastructure architecture, engineering, operations, networking, security, governance, and cost optimization.\nStrong understanding of computing, storage, networking, databases, middleware, identity, observability, and enterprise infrastructure services.\nExperience leading large-scale cloud migration, infrastructure modernization, data center transformation, or platform transformation programs.\nExperience establishing highly available, resilient, and scalable infrastructure for business-critical applications.\nExperience with Infrastructure such as Code, automation, configuration management, and modern cloud engineering practices.\nDemonstrated experience managing infrastructure reliability, capacity, performance, disaster recovery, and 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ServiceNow.\nExperience establishing disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities.\nExperience operating infrastructure for high-volume, customer-facing applications.\nRelevant AWS or cloud architecture certifications.\nProven success operates in highly dynamic and rapidly changing technology environments.\nAbout Convera\nConvera is the largest non-bank B2B cross-border payments company in the world. Formerly Western Union Business Solutions, we leverage decades of industry expertise and technology-led payment solutions to deliver smarter money movements to our customers - helping them capture more value with every transaction. Convera serves more than 30,000 customers ranging from small business owners to enterprise treasurers to educational institutions to financial institutions to law firms to NGOs. Our teams care deeply about the value we bring to our customers, which makes Convera a rewarding place to work. This is an exciting time for our organization as we build our team with growth-minded, result-oriented people who are looking to move fast in an innovative environment. As a truly global company with employees in over 20 countries, we are passionate about diversity; we seek and celebrate people from different backgrounds, lifestyles, and unique points of view. We want to work with the best people and ensure we foster a culture of inclusion and belonging.\nWe offer an abundance of competitive perks and benefits including: \nCompetitive salary\nOpportunity to earn an annual bonus.\nGreat career growth and development opportunities in a global organization\nA flexible approach to work\nThere are plenty of amazing opportunities at Convera for talented, creative problem solvers who never settle for good enough and are looking to transform Business to Business payments. 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