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Trimont · 6 hours ago

Executive Director Infrastructure

Charlotte, NC

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

12+ years exp

Trimont is a specialized global commercial real estate loan services provider founded in 1988. They are seeking an Executive Director of Infrastructure to architect and improve the core technology foundation of their financial services business, overseeing the infrastructure strategy and roadmap, including cloud and on-prem solutions.

Commercial Real EstateCreditLending

Responsibilities

Define the multi‑year infrastructure strategy and target architecture aligned to business, risk, resilience, and cost objectives

Establish architecture and guardrails for workloads across IaaS, PaaS, and containers

Drive modernization: migrate legacy systems, rationalize data centers, and adopt infrastructure-as-code and automation at scale

Own availability SLOs for network, compute, storage, and core services (e.g., identity, connectivity, databases)

Design resilient topologies to meet RTO/RPO targets

Implement proactive capacity planning, performance engineering, and observability

Partner with Security to architect and enforce zero‑trust principles across identity, endpoint, and network layers

Implement cloud security controls

Ensure vulnerability management, patching, configuration baselines and secure secrets management

Support regulatory and audit readiness (SOC 1 & 2, GLBA, PCI, GDPR where relevant) through control design and evidence

Own enterprise network architecture: SD‑WAN, hybrid connectivity, segmentation, QoS, and internet egress

Ensure high availability and security of network services

Institutionalize Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and configuration management

Standardize golden images/base builds, immutable infrastructure, automated patching, and blue/green or canary deployments

Establish SRE practices: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident management, post‑mortems, and reliability backlogs

Manage vendor relationships, contracts, and cost optimization

Maintain accurate CMDB, asset inventories, and dependency maps

Build and lead a high‑performing team; attract, develop, and retain top infrastructure and cloud talent

Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Application Development, Data, Security, and Business stakeholders to align platforms with product and risk needs

Communicate clearly to executive leadership on roadmap, risk posture, and investment priorities

Qualification

Microsoft AzureInfrastructure as CodeDisaster RecoverySecurity ExpertiseEnterprise NetworkingRegulatory FrameworksStakeholder ManagementLeadershipCommunication Skills