Executive Director, Architecture & Infrastructure
Lone Star College System
The Woodlands, TX
Full-time
Information Services / Technology (IT)
Posted on March 31, 2024
Commitment to Mission
This job carries with it the obligation to uphold the Mission of Lone Star College (LSC) in carrying out the duties of the position. A commitment to positive interpersonal behaviors, professional communication, integrity, leadership, stewardship, respect and accountability to LSC students and employees is essential.
Cultural Beliefs
Lone Star College has been recognized in multiple categories.
Campus Marketing Statement
Lone Star College-System Office, University Park
Lone Star College offers high-quality, low-cost academic transfer and career training education to 80,000+ students each semester. LSC has been named a 2023 Great Colleges to Work For institution by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
LSC consists of eight colleges, seven centers, eight Workforce Centers of Excellence and Lone Star Corporate College.
Lone Star College-System Office employees are based at one of two System Office locations; The Woodlands and University Park. Both are the site for multiple administrative departments and system-wide training programs.
Location address is 20515 SH 249 (SH 249 and Louetta Road) Houston, Texas 77070-2607.
Job Description
PURPOSE AND SCOPE:
The Executive Director, Architecture and Infrastructure is accountable for the high availability of the Lone Star College System Wide Area Network and Infrastructure. This individual is responsible for providing a state-of-the-art network architecture, virtualization, storage, backup and recovery as well as campus support in these areas, along with leading a team of professionals delivering innovation, excellent service availability, and outstanding customer service. A member of a 24/7/365 global department.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
This position requires a person with a comprehensive and broad knowledge of complex information systems and the application of these in a higher education environment. Key personal/professional attributes include:
The work is sedentary. Typically, the employee sits comfortably to do the work. However, there may be some walking; standing; bending; carrying of light items, such as papers, books, or small parts; or driving an automobile. No special physical demands are required to perform the work.
WORK SCHEDULE AND CONDITIONS:
· Certifications in Cisco, storage, backup and recovery, security and/or project management
Salary
Hiring salary range is $122,820 - $141,243.
Lone Star College provides a hiring salary range for all posted full-time non-faculty positions. Where your salary offer would fall in that range is determined by your related experience and education. Should you receive an offer of employment from Lone Star College, the resume submitted in the application process will be utilized to calculate your salary offer. The information outlined below will provide the Office of Human Resources everything needed to determine an accurate starting salary.
Your resume should provide a complete picture of your work experience. The resume should include the following information for each position listed:
Benefits Marketing Statement
By joining our top-notch institution, you will enjoy being a part of an organization that offers a supportive, collegial work environment and excellent work/life balance. This includes a full comprehensive and competitive benefits package, a generous number of paid holidays and vacation days, wellness programs, tuition waiver, professional development opportunities and more.
Special Instructions
Go to the Job Search page, click on ‘My Activities' at the top of the page. Under My Cover Letters and Attachments you will click on ‘Add Attachment.' Please be sure to put the Job ID# in the title once you name your file for cover letters only, unless you attached your cover letter with your resume.
If you are applying for an Instructional position (i.e. Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Instructor), please ensure you include the following to be considered: Resume/CV, Cover Letter, Teaching Philosophy, and unofficial transcripts.
You must limit your file name for any attachment to 40 characters or less.
How to Apply
ALL APPLICANTS MUST APPLY ONLINE ONLY
We will not accept application material received via fax, email, mail, or hand delivered.
Postings for part-time and adjunct positions are active for the academic year. By selecting the option to receive notifications on your profile, you will begin receiving electronic communication regarding new opportunities with Lone Star College (LSC).
If selected for an interview, a recruiter will contact you by phone, or email to schedule an interview.
Lone Star College participates in the E-Verify program, under which Lone Star College provides the federal government with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm that the employee is authorized to work in the United States.
More information on the E-Verify program is available at www.dhs.gov/E-Verify.
Lone Star College is an EEO Employer. All positions are subject to a criminal background check.
This job carries with it the obligation to uphold the Mission of Lone Star College (LSC) in carrying out the duties of the position. A commitment to positive interpersonal behaviors, professional communication, integrity, leadership, stewardship, respect and accountability to LSC students and employees is essential.
Cultural Beliefs
- One LSC
- Student Focused
- Own It
- Advance Equity
- Cultivate Community
- Choose Learning
Lone Star College has been recognized in multiple categories.
Campus Marketing Statement
Lone Star College-System Office, University Park
Lone Star College offers high-quality, low-cost academic transfer and career training education to 80,000+ students each semester. LSC has been named a 2023 Great Colleges to Work For institution by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
LSC consists of eight colleges, seven centers, eight Workforce Centers of Excellence and Lone Star Corporate College.
Lone Star College-System Office employees are based at one of two System Office locations; The Woodlands and University Park. Both are the site for multiple administrative departments and system-wide training programs.
Location address is 20515 SH 249 (SH 249 and Louetta Road) Houston, Texas 77070-2607.
Job Description
PURPOSE AND SCOPE:
The Executive Director, Architecture and Infrastructure is accountable for the high availability of the Lone Star College System Wide Area Network and Infrastructure. This individual is responsible for providing a state-of-the-art network architecture, virtualization, storage, backup and recovery as well as campus support in these areas, along with leading a team of professionals delivering innovation, excellent service availability, and outstanding customer service. A member of a 24/7/365 global department.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
- Assist in managing the relationship and contractual agreements with application service providers and vendors as needed
- Actively and continuously follow Change Management processes and procedures as they relate to systems and infrastructure
- Provide daily operational support of LSC server/network/virtualization infrastructure in delivery of IT services
- Develop a deliverable methodology to meet our 99.999 availability requirement. Create and maintain standard Service Level Agreements, to include application, network, business-centric service availability
- Manage the implementation of monitoring of areas performance and availability
- Act as project lead for new and existing IT projects encompassing systems
- Establish and maintain processes and procedures for area management. Develop professional development plans of positions' direct reports
- Ensure all data/systems backups and archiving are successful and tested
- Establish and maintain delivery of security updates and critical patches to systems, and ensure they are physically secure and hardened
- Implement and maintain a strategic storage infrastructure, supporting the Information Lifecycle Management methodology
- Make recommendations and provide assistance to the Executive Director with budgetary planning, compliance, and purchase of hardware/software related to systems support
- Responsible for other reasonable related duties as assigned
This position requires a person with a comprehensive and broad knowledge of complex information systems and the application of these in a higher education environment. Key personal/professional attributes include:
- Customer service driven and a strong end-user orientation
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Specific understanding of recent industry trends and standards
- Sound knowledge of industry best practices and I.T.I.L framework
- Strong work ethic, ready to work extremely hard executing strategic plans
- Self-motivated, positive attitude, mature personality, and team orientated
- Superior organizational skills, ability to work with faculty, staff, and students at all skill/management levels
- Proven administrative ability to multitask and manage a number of competing priorities within project timelines and deliverables
- Highly self-motivated
The work is sedentary. Typically, the employee sits comfortably to do the work. However, there may be some walking; standing; bending; carrying of light items, such as papers, books, or small parts; or driving an automobile. No special physical demands are required to perform the work.
WORK SCHEDULE AND CONDITIONS:
- Equipment used includes, PC workstation running on a LAN in a Microsoft Windows environment, calculator, phone and other general office equipment
- Interface with internal and external contacts as needed to carry out the functions of the position
- Work is performed in a climate-controlled office with minimal exposure to safety hazards
- May regularly travel to different LSC locations
- May be fully reassigned to other LSC locations if necessary
- May need to work weekends and outside of core business hours if necessary
- Bachelor's degree and at least 10 years of related work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience delivering modern IT infrastructure strategies including hyperconvergence and cloud-based solutions
- Experience with Cisco Networking and servers, VMWare virtualization, HPE storage and multiple cloud services
· Certifications in Cisco, storage, backup and recovery, security and/or project management
Salary
Hiring salary range is $122,820 - $141,243.
Lone Star College provides a hiring salary range for all posted full-time non-faculty positions. Where your salary offer would fall in that range is determined by your related experience and education. Should you receive an offer of employment from Lone Star College, the resume submitted in the application process will be utilized to calculate your salary offer. The information outlined below will provide the Office of Human Resources everything needed to determine an accurate starting salary.
Your resume should provide a complete picture of your work experience. The resume should include the following information for each position listed:
- Length of time (specific months and years) of employment
- If the position was full time or part time
- If the position was paid or unpaid
- Level of degree completed including date earned.
- Unofficial transcript for highest earned degree
Benefits Marketing Statement
By joining our top-notch institution, you will enjoy being a part of an organization that offers a supportive, collegial work environment and excellent work/life balance. This includes a full comprehensive and competitive benefits package, a generous number of paid holidays and vacation days, wellness programs, tuition waiver, professional development opportunities and more.
Special Instructions
Go to the Job Search page, click on ‘My Activities' at the top of the page. Under My Cover Letters and Attachments you will click on ‘Add Attachment.' Please be sure to put the Job ID# in the title once you name your file for cover letters only, unless you attached your cover letter with your resume.
If you are applying for an Instructional position (i.e. Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Instructor), please ensure you include the following to be considered: Resume/CV, Cover Letter, Teaching Philosophy, and unofficial transcripts.
You must limit your file name for any attachment to 40 characters or less.
How to Apply
ALL APPLICANTS MUST APPLY ONLINE ONLY
We will not accept application material received via fax, email, mail, or hand delivered.
Postings for part-time and adjunct positions are active for the academic year. By selecting the option to receive notifications on your profile, you will begin receiving electronic communication regarding new opportunities with Lone Star College (LSC).
If selected for an interview, a recruiter will contact you by phone, or email to schedule an interview.
Lone Star College participates in the E-Verify program, under which Lone Star College provides the federal government with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm that the employee is authorized to work in the United States.
More information on the E-Verify program is available at www.dhs.gov/E-Verify.
Lone Star College is an EEO Employer. All positions are subject to a criminal background check.
