IT Manager/Director

We are looking for an accomplished technology leader to guide platform and infrastructure functions through a period of operational improvement and long-range transformation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This contract opportunity is suited for someone who can strengthen day-to-day reliability while shaping a forward-looking strategy for cloud, data center, and enterprise platform services. The role will lead a sizable technical organization, partner with senior leadership, and build a more disciplined, accountable, and scalable engineering environment.Responsibilities:• Provide strategic and operational leadership for platform engineering, infrastructure, and IT operations to improve service stability and team performance.• Direct managers and technical leads across server administration, network engineering, and data center operations, overseeing an organization of approximately 40 to 50 employees and contractors.• Build and execute a modernization plan for enterprise platforms, including assessment of hybrid cloud, full cloud, managed service, and other future-state architecture options.• Develop roadmaps for reducing dependence on legacy mainframe systems and for advancing data center strategy, including migration planning and evaluation of an additional facility location.• Establish stronger standards for infrastructure governance, lifecycle management, change control, release coordination, testing practices, and production readiness.• Champion Site Reliability Engineering and observability efforts to improve system reliability, visibility, and operational response.• Review availability, performance, and resilience metrics to identify technical debt, eliminate inefficiencies, and prioritize infrastructure improvements.• Assess organizational capabilities, identify skill or leadership gaps, and implement changes that strengthen accountability, consistency, and execution.• Collaborate with executive stakeholders to align infrastructure investments and transformation initiatives with long-term business objectives.