Who We Are
At Harte Hanks, we’re building a modern behavioral marketing company, marrying our data-driven understanding of human behavior with a seamless connection to the consumer. Through digital, direct, sampling, fulfillment, and customer care, we manage a full consumer experience that shortens the distance between behavior and action.
The Ask The Director of IT Infrastructure, Cloud & Operations is responsible for leading the service desk, networking, systems engineering, cloud infrastructure, and workplace technology teams. This leader is accountable for stability, security, cost-effectiveness, architecture, and continuous improvement of our technology environment. The role leads a portfolio of strategic and operational initiatives, translates the enterprise technology roadmap into measurable execution, and builds a culture of accountability, operational excellence, innovation, and continuous learning.
Who You Are The Director of IT Infrastructure, Cloud & Operations, is a forward-thinking technology leader who combines strong operational discipline with architecture leadership, financial accountability, and a drive to advance organizational capability. Their goal is to build and lead high-performing teams that consistently improve service quality, operational maturity, automation, documentation, and customer outcomes. They have extensive experience defining technology roadmaps, establishing scalable architecture patterns, leading complex programs, and managing successful technology teams that leverage modern cloud, automation, observability, and service management practices.
They stay current with developments in cloud, automation, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and modern IT operations, and apply those technologies pragmatically to improve efficiency, resilience, cost-effectiveness, employee experience, and business outcomes.
What You Will Be Doing
Lead and develop multiple technology teams, establishing clear accountability, measurable performance expectations, and a culture of operational excellence, continuous improvement, and service value
Oversee corporate IT operations, including service desk, networking, systems engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and workplace technology
Own cloud infrastructure governance and cost management across Azure and AWS, including budgeting, forecasting, utilization optimization, commitment management, cost allocation, and identification of opportunities to reduce waste and improve technology value
Provide coaching, mentorship, and direct performance leadership to strengthen individual and team capabilities, develop future leaders, close skill gaps, and improve accountability, execution, and professional development
Manage third-party vendors and support providers, ensuring that responsibilities, service levels, deliverables, costs, and performance expectations are clearly defined and met
Establish effective monitoring, observability, alerting, event management, and operational response practices across cloud-based and on-premises environments to improve availability, performance, resilience, and service quality
Ensure adherence to security of IT infrastructure systems in accordance with company security policies and best practices
Working closely with the senior IT leadership and executive teams, contribute to the definition and development of the enterprise technology roadmap and IT strategy aligned with organizational goals
Partner with business and technology stakeholders to identify needs, define scope and outcomes, prioritize the project portfolio, manage dependencies and risks, and build resource capacity plans that optimize value delivery
Be accountable for ensuring that services, projects, and technology initiatives are delivered on budget, on schedule, within agreed scope, and with a high degree of quality, transparency, and stakeholder satisfaction
Develop, document, and implement clear standards, operational procedures, and processes
Provide technology and architecture leadership across infrastructure and operations, establishing reusable standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and technology guardrails for cloud, network, workplace, systems, automation, integration, resiliency, and disaster recovery
Regularly review existing systems and make recommendations for improvements to elevate the maturity and capability of the technology organization
Establish service level agreements (SLAs), operational level agreements (OLAs), objectives and key results (OKRs), and key performance indicators (KPIs) to provide data-driven measurement and reporting on the effectiveness and efficiency of IT operations
Build, embody and reinforce a strong team culture of collaboration, communication, respect, professionalism, customer service and adaptability to change
Implement, manage, adhere to and enforce change control processes to ensure audit compliance (SOX, PCI, HIPAA, etc.) and work with auditors and clients on audit requests
Occasionally interact with Harte Hanks’ clients on technology initiatives
Requirements
Passion for leadership, coaching, technology and continuous learning
Excellent organizational, problem-solving and root cause analysis (RCA) skills
Ability to effectively delegate, organize, and prioritize work for multiple concurrent initiatives in a fast-paced environment
Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a technology related discipline
10+ years of progressive professional IT experience
7+ years of infrastructure, cloud, or systems architecture and engineering experience across enterprise environments, including Windows and Linux platforms
5+ years managing teams of technology professionals
5+ years of cloud computing experience with significant experience in Azure and/or AWS
Experience managing an international and globally remote workforce providing 24/7 support
Experience managing enterprise infrastructure and IT operations in a highly regulated corporate environment and preferably at a publicly traded company
Deep understanding of datacenter and cloud infrastructure including compute, storage, networking, voice/telephony, resiliency, and disaster recovery
Deep understanding of IT Service Management, ITIL, DevSecOps, Agile and project management methodologies
Demonstrated experience using Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence, and related Atlassian capabilities to manage projects, service delivery, operational work, documentation, reporting, and continuous improvement.
Demonstrated experience leading complex projects, programs and initiatives including digital transformation, cloud migration and application modernization
Understanding of security best practices with endpoint security, identity and access management
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical, operational, financial, and risk considerations clearly to executives, clients, business stakeholders, and technical contributors
Skilled at small and large group facilitation
Remains calm under pressure and instills confidence across teams
Manages conflict tactfully by bringing disagreements into the open and facilitating the team to consensus whenever possible
Knows when to escalate issues
Skilled at building and delivering presentations to internal and external customers
Comfortable working with team members from all levels of the organization
Up to 10% travel may be required as needed by project work
Ability to produce detailed standards, process, and operational documentation
Experience with industry regulations and standards (GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, etc)
Experience with Platform Engineering practices, Infrastructure as code (IaC), automation, and scripting skills (PowerShell, Bash, ARM Templates, Terraform, DSC, JSON, Ansible)
Experience with identity management (Active Directory Domain Services, AD Connect, Entra AD, ADFS, MFA)
Azure, AWS, ITIL certifications are a plus
What We Offer
Group Health and Wellness (Medical, Dental, and Vision)
Health Savings Account (HSA)
Educational Assistance
Voluntary plans, including critical illness, accident, and hospitalization
401k plan with Company Match and Roth contributions | Immediate vesting
Pet Insurance, free legal services, employee discount programs, and more….
Equal Opportunity Employer / M / F/ H / V