Assistant Director, IT Operations - 26006218
Pittsburgh, PAJobSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Pitt Digital seeks an Assistant Director, IT Operations to lead the systems engineering and operations organization responsible for university infrastructure, including data center and server hosting, virtualization, storage, backup and recovery, patching, identity services, and monitoring. The role leads senior engineers through significant change and supports on-premise and cloud systems across the University’s campuses, schools, and departments.
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Assistant Director, IT Operations Pitt IT Operations - Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh - (26006218) Pitt Digital is seeking an Assistant Director, IT Operations to lead the systems engineering and operations organization responsible for the infrastructure the University runs on --- data center & server hosting, virtualization, enterprise storage, backup & recovery, patching & platform lifecycle, identity & login services, 24x7x365 monitoring operations. Together with the Operations network team, the systems & operations team is responsible for the infrastructure that supports the Oakland & Regional Campuses, services that support on premise & cloud systems for the enterprise, University schools & departments. Successful candidate brings operational discipline to keep a large production environment healthy & technical credibility to lead senior engineers through significant change. Required qualifications: Five years of progressively responsible experience in enterprise infrastructure or IT operations Demonstrated supervisory or team leadership experience Hands-on experience administering enterprise Windows Server &/or Linux environments at scale Working knowledge of enterprise virtualization, backup & recovery, patch management, & infrastructure monitoring practices Demonstrated experience with formal change management and incident management processes in a production environment Preferred qualifications: (Experience with or in ) leading a team of managers or senior technical staff in a multi-service operations organization public cloud delivery (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) in a hybrid enterprise environment supporting research computing, high-performance computing, or secure research enclaves subject to sponsor security requirements. higher ed or academic medical environments, incl support for restricted data classifications HIPAA, GLBA, FERPA, PII, controlled unclassified information. managing 24x7 operations or network operations center, including shift coverage & Tier 1 escalation models managed service provider transitions & ongoing vendor performance oversight ITSM tooling & practices (TeamDynamix or comparable) and ITIL-aligned service management The University offers a robust retirement savings plan with 100% employer match, 150% after vesting. 11 Paid Holidays. Paid Vac, Sick, Personal. Add'l Winter Recess Paid Time Off. Paid Parental Leave. Above-average Employer Contribution toward View the full job description on the employer's website. Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. PI287409344 / 11-3013.00 Facilities Managers
How this job compares
Set against the 587 open IT Operations jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$110–160K/yr347 salary ranges
- US median$29–48/hr43 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 17 open IT Operations jobs in Pennsylvania and 587 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; IT Operations postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (438 postings).
- Education
- 79 of the 587 open IT Operations jobs (13%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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