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The City University of New York · 2 months ago

Director of Virtualization, Storage, and Platform Services (IT Computer Systems Manager 6)

New York, NY

Part-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

$165K/yr - $173K/yr

6+ years exp

The City University of New York (CUNY) is seeking a Director of Virtualization, Storage, and Platform Services to lead enterprise-level IT initiatives. This role involves designing and maintaining virtualization and hybrid cloud platforms to support academic and administrative operations, while ensuring compliance and operational excellence.

Higher Education

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Provides strategic leadership and hands-on oversight for enterprise virtualization platforms (VMware VCF, Omnissa Horizon View, Nutanix AHV, Redhat Openshift), ensuring high performance, resiliency, and scalability across the university system

Oversees key distribution of enterprise licensed virtualization products to campus IT leads and manages authorized users in the vendor portal

Directs architecture, deployment, and lifecycle management of enterprise storage and backup solutions (SAN, NAS, vSAN, S3, Cohesity, Rubrik, etc.) with strong focus on disaster recovery, replication, and business continuity

Leads infrastructure modernization initiatives, including migration and optimization of workloads across hybrid environments (on-premises, Azure, AWS, SaaS/IaaS)

Supervises automation and Infrastructure-as-Code practices (PowerShell, Azure Automation, Ansible, Terraform) to improve operational agility, provisioning, and patch compliance

Ensures enterprise systems operate within ITIL and ITSM frameworks, maintaining service reliability, compliance with NIST/CIS standards, and alignment with institutional governance policies

Manages diverse teams responsible for virtualization and storage, fostering professional growth and accountability

Develops and executes long-term IT roadmaps to advance virtualization, storage, and platform services in support of digital transformation, academic excellence, and administrative efficiency

Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to align technology investments with business priorities, while driving adoption of cloud-native and container-based solutions

Maintains rigorous operational documentation, disaster recovery runbooks, and change management controls to ensure consistency, compliance, and resilience

Qualification

Enterprise virtualizationDisaster recovery solutionsHybrid cloud platformsAutomationIaCVMware VCFAzure ADITIL best practicesStakeholder managementLeadership skillsCommunication skills

Required

Six (6) years of progressively responsible full-time paid information systems technology experience, at least eighteen (18) months of which shall have been in an administrative or managerial capacity in the areas of computer applications programming, systems programming, information systems development, data telecommunications, data base administration or a closely related area

Education at an accredited college or university may be substituted for the general information systems technology experience at the rate of one (1) year of college for six (6) months of experience up to a maximum of four (4) years of college for two (2) years of experience

In addition, a master's degree in computer science or a closely related field from an accredited college or university may be substituted for an additional year of the general information systems technology experience

Experience in an administrative capacity must include, but is not limited to, responsibilities such as: monitoring an IT budget; reviewing and approving IT procurement and invoice payments; reviewing and approving contracts with vendors; monitoring and approving IT projects; setting standards and best practices; risk evaluation (e.g., security, reputational, operational); organizational development; chairing or participating in IT Governance and Advisory committees; and/or overseeing vendor relationship management

Experience in a managerial capacity must include, but is not limited to, responsibilities such as: strategic planning for an office/division; creating and implementing policies; setting standards and best practices; defining and documenting project scope; root cause analysis with recommendations; collaborating with other managers and executives to define future state of IT program; and/or forecasting

The following types of experience are not acceptable: superficial use of preprogrammed software without complex programming, design, implementation or management of the product; use of a word processing package; use of a hand-held calculator; data entry; operation of data processing hardware or consoles

Preferred

8+ years of progressive IT leadership experience, with a minimum of 3 years in enterprise virtualization, storage, or hybrid cloud platforms

Advanced expertise in VMware VCF, NSX, vSAN, and strong knowledge of Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, RHEL Openshift or KVM

Strong knowledge of physical and software defined networking protocols and architecture

Proven success designing and managing enterprise storage and disaster recovery solutions, including backup/recovery, replication, and geo-diverse high-availability strategies

Deep knowledge of Azure AD, ADFS, SAML, OAuth, and conditional access, with demonstrated success implementing SSO and identity governance

Strong proficiency in automation and IaC (PowerShell, Azure Automation, Ansible, Terraform) for infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and lifecycle management

Familiarity with event monitoring and SIEM tools (Splunk, Palo Alto, Solarwinds) for proactive performance and security management

Knowledge of ITIL best practices and experience operating within mature ITSM environments

Demonstrated success leading enterprise-scale migrations, virtualization modernization, and cloud adoption projects in large, complex organizations

Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to convey complex technical strategies in clear, business-focused terms

Benefits

CUNY offers a comprehensive benefits package to employees and eligible dependents based on job title and classification.

Employees are also offered pension and Tax-Deferred Savings Plans.

Health benefits are also extended to retirees who meet the eligibility criteria.

Company

The City University of New York

The City University of New York is the nation’s largest urban public university, a transformative engine of social mobility that is a critical component of the lifeblood of New York City.

Founded in 1847

New York, NY, US

10001+ employees

http://cuny.edu

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