Director, IT Operations, Cloud and Security

Vista Consulting Group is the operating and consulting arm of Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm that specializes in acquiring software, data and technology enabled businesses. The VCG team works alongside Vista investment professionals and key portfolio company leaders to help current and newly-acquired businesses strengthen their operations through the implementation of standardized, repeatable and proven processes and methodologies.

Vista Consulting Group is experiencing strong success, resulting in the growth of our Product and Technology team. The Product and Technology team works with all portfolio companies to implement and drive operational excellence in product management and software development by optimizing people, process, tools and technology. This is an exciting opportunity to own and define cloud transformation and management best practices within highly-distinguished software companies.

Job Responsibilities and Expectations:

·        Provide thought leadership and expert advice to Vista companies on:

o   overall effectiveness and efficiency of data center technology systems and operations to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction

o   cloud providers, offerings, technical architecture, migrations, procurement and cost management

o   core information security components

·        Assist Vista companies with optimization of existing infrastructure and cloud environments providing technical architecture recommendations, cost management approaches and deep expertise on cloud providers’ offerings (focus on AWS, Azure and GCP).

·        Advise DevOps and CloudOps teams on solutions for product monitoring, high availability, security, and scalability.

·        Provide leadership in infrastructure migration methodologies and techniques including mass application movements into the cloud including implementation of Azure or AWS within in large regulated enterprise environments.

·        Lead technical relationship with major co-location and cloud providers (Azure, AWS and GCP) ensuring Vista companies get access to proper resources, structure optimum commercial agreements and receive ongoing and uniquely differentiated services from providers.

·        Build a trusted relationship with companies executives and nurture infrastructure, cloud and security expertise internally and externally to drive cloud adoption.