Director, Cloud Engineering and Core Infrastructure (Enterprise Technology Platforms)

What Enterprise Technology Platforms contributes to Cardinal Health

The Director, Cloud Engineering and Core Infrastructure (Enterprise Technology Platforms) has operational and strategic ownership of the Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Network Platforms. The role is a key leader in the "Dual-Pillar" Enterprise Technology Platform organization and is accountable for ensuring global operational stability, compute, and connectivity and leads a team responsible for the architecture, delivery, and proactive 24/7 monitoring of these technologies, ensuring uncompromising high availability and rapid incident resolution. This role acts as a people leader directing a globally dispersed workforce across the US, India (Bengaluru), and the Philippines (Manila), alongside managed service partners and contractor resources. This Director is strategically leading the usage of automation and agentic capabilities to reduce repetitive work and upskill the organization as part of the strategic talent expansion strategy.

Location - Fully remote, open to candidates based nationwide (requires willingness to travel to our corporate HQ in Dublin, Ohio 1-3 times per year)

Responsibilities

• Global Operations: Responsible for 24/7 global ITOC/NOC operations, encompassing Data Center and COLO facilities, enterprise commodity servers, storage, virtualization environments, database, and network operations.

• Incident Management: Lead Service Restoration Team (SRT) management and critical incident defense to ensure high availability and rapid incident resolution.

• Team Leadership: Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing, geographically dispersed team to shift the culture from reactive "ticket takers" to proactive strategic partners.

• Strategic Execution: Execute critical initiatives including zero-trust, future-proofing the edge, optimizing vendor footprints, and automation / agentic capabilities.

• Modernization: Contribute to the organization's modernization strategy and shift toward a DevOps/SRE model through Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and automation strategies.

• Health & Hygiene: Oversee the full technology lifecycle, including technology refresh, OS/Database currency, security remediation, patching, backups, and routine maintenance.

Qualifications

• Ideally targeting individuals with 12+ years of experience in Hybrid Cloud environments, Data Center, Database technologies, and/or experience with Public/Private cloud infrastructure and legacy systems (IBM)

• Individuals with prior experience leading a geographically dispersed team, managing 24/7 monitoring and support operations - a strong plus

• Targeting a continuous learner with demonstrated success driving automation capabilities and brings a desire to keep current on quickly evolving technologies

• Ability to manage vendor relationships, specifically regarding hardware/software exits, managed service agreements, and renewals

• Strong financial acumen to manage FinOps, vendor negotiations, and cost optimization efforts (e.g., COLO footprint reduction and software licensing)

• Ability to manage numerous competing priorities across a broad range of technologies and disciplines

• Knowledge of regulatory compliance (SOX) and resiliency standards, a plus but not required

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Anticipated salary range: $152,100 - $257,400

Bonus eligible: Yes

Benefits: Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.

• Medical, dental and vision coverage

• Paid time off plan

• Health savings account (HSA)

• 401k savings plan

• Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay

• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)

• Short- and long-term disability coverage

• Work-Life resources

• Paid parental leave

• Healthy lifestyle programs

Application window anticipated to close: 07/01/2026 *if interested in opportunity, please submit application as soon as possible.

The salary range listed is an estimate. Pay at Cardinal Health is determined by multiple factors including, but not limited to, a candidate's geographical location, relevant education, experience and skills and an evaluation of internal pay equity.

Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

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