Director, Compute Services

What You'll Do:

The Director, Compute Services is responsible for leading the design, development and maintenance of OCC’s physical and virtual Infrastructure. This role has a deep technical background in IT engineering and IT operations and seamlessly works between these groups.  Stays current with IT trends, best practices and technology solutions to incorporate into OCC.

Director of Compute Services will lead and manage our on-premises and public cloud compute infrastructure including physical, virtualized, and containerized capacity. This role requires strong leadership and people management skills, transformation experience, and deep technical expertise in Cisco UCS, Dell, Virtualization, Linux / Windows Operating systems and Kubernetes.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Set the strategic direction for the organization's compute infrastructure, security and automation in support of critical OCC business needs.

• Establish IT user support processes, standards, metrics, monitoring, and reporting in order to ensure IT Infrastructure is available, responsive, and achieving business outcomes and objectives.

• Develop an overall roadmap for all infrastructure areas to ensure transparency on the delivery of new services and capabilities and to understand upgrade and replacement needs for existing infrastructure.

• Assess and communicate the impacts, trade-offs, risks, costs, benefits, and opportunities of IT solutions.

• Collaborate closely with other business and technology teams to assure transparency and consistent direction in priorities.

• Provide project leadership, including work direction and feedback to the sponsors, project leads and teams for high-priority infrastructure initiatives.

• Negotiate and resolve conflicting change requests and changing priorities across projects; facilitating solutions to complex problems.

• Oversee, monitor, and report progress on complex and/or multiple infrastructure projects related to schedules, budgets, and quality.

• Plan and Deploy for Business Results, which includes the ability to develop and implement business plans, IT plans, budget plans, and human resource plans in order to maximize budget allocations, technology, personnel and other resources to achieve agency and program goals.

• Coach and mentor infrastructure staff, and handle escalation tickets for infrastructure-related issues, including system down scenarios.

• Partner with the IT Vendor Management Office and Procurement to ensure that the services and performance of major partners are examined through a quarterly business review

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Manages a team of 3-5 people leaders and individual contributors

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• [Required] Excellent presentation skills including planning, material preparation and public speaking

• [Required] Demonstrated capability to tailor communications to the technical level of the audience

• [Required] Clear, concise and precise written and verbal communication skills to effectively communicate with people of various backgrounds

• [Required] Negotiation skills including listening and persuasion

• [Required] Strong interpersonal, leadership, people management and mentoring skills

• [Required] Strong ability to use solution-oriented approach towards problem resolution

• [Required] Ability to work independently and be a team player

• [Required] Demonstrated capability and desire to help manage people, process, systems

Technical Skills:

• [Required] Experience using the following:

  • VMware

  • RHEL OS

  • Windows OS

  • Kubernetes

  • Active Directory

  • Splunk

• [Required] Experience building cloud infrastructure in environments such as AWS (Preferred), Azure, or Google Cloud, or similar service

• [Required] Experience directing use of tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Python, and Github (or industry equivalent)

• [Required] Experience delivering Infrastructure as code

Education and/or Experience:

• BS in computer science, management information systems or closely related field.

• Relevant professional certifications/designations such as IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), CISCO, Redhat, Microsoft, Rancher preferred

Experience Required:

• Minimum of ten (10) years of experience with Infrastructure Engineering support and implementation

• Minimum of eight (7) years of professional leadership experience managing multiple infrastructure functions in a large enterprise environment.

• Minimum of eight (7) years of experience in a managerial role with responsibility for leading, training, and mentoring a team of direct reports

Certificates or Licenses:

• None

Who We Are

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

What We Offer

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:

A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work

Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education

Student Loan Repayment Assistance

Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely

Generous PTO and Parental leave

Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

Step 1
When you find a position you're interested in, click the 'Apply' button. Please complete the application and attach your resume.  

Step 2
You will receive an email notification to confirm that we've received your application.

Step 3
If you are called in for an interview, a representative from OCC will contact you to set up a date, time, and location. 

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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer