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Original posting from SAGE Dining Services via LinkedIn
At SAGE Dining Services®, we believe great food is only possible when the systems behind it work flawlessly. We're a mission-driven hospitality company dedicated to creating exceptional dining experiences that delight the senses, inspire minds, and foster community. We're looking for a visionary Director of Infrastructure & Operations to help power it all.
This is your opportunity to step into a high-impact leadership role where technology meets hospitality at scale. You'll own the IT backbone that keeps our dining locations running smoothly, create the infrastructure that powers our development efforts, champion cybersecurity and operational resilience, lead technology transformation, and shape the future of how we work.
If you thrive at the intersection of strategic thinking and hands-on execution, and you're energized by the idea of your work directly improving the experience of thousands of people every day, SAGE is the place for you.
Summary
The Director of Infrastructure & Operations (I&O) leads the strategy, delivery, and day-to-day operation of the technology. Accountable for reliable, secure, and cost-effective infrastructure and operational IT services across a large, distributed footprint as well as home office operations—covering networks/Wi Fi, identity and collaboration, endpoints, and IT service management. The Director treats internal IT infrastructure as a product (IaaP) with an internal-developer-platform mindset—prioritizing developer experience, usability, and self-service capabilities for software engineering stakeholders while maintaining strong security and reliability. The Director also partners closely with internal software teams that build and maintain custom solutions, ensuring strong operational readiness, release discipline, and measurable service outcomes that meet site-level SLAs.
What you'll get:
- Competitive salary and benefits.
- Work with a skilled, collaborative team that makes measurable contributions to organizational strategies and profitability.
- Mission-based company with values you trust.
- Company that has brand equity and fabulous reputation in the market.
What you'll do:
- Team leadership: Build and develop high-performing teams across infrastructure, systems and service desk; define on-call models and escalation paths.
- Large-scale, multi-site infrastructure leadership: Own strategy, lifecycle, and operations for connectivity (LAN/WAN, Wi Fi), compute/storage, endpoint and mobile device management, and collaboration platforms.
- Standardization & repeatability: Define standard technology patterns (network designs, device builds, security baselines, and spares) and enable repeatable, automated deployments through documented templates, “golden paths,” and self-service provisioning (where appropriate) so development teams can move faster with fewer handoffs and less variability.
- Infrastructure as a Product (IaaP) / Internal Developer Platform: Treat core internal infrastructure capabilities (identity, networking, compute/runtime platforms, endpoint standards, monitoring/observability, secrets/certificates, and deployment standards) as product offerings for internal engineering teams. Deliver developer self-service through a clear service catalog and portal experience (e.g., request/provision workflows, standardized templates, paved-road “golden paths,” and reusable modules), integrated with engineering toolchains where appropriate (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, ticketing/ITSM, and approvals). Establish published roadmaps; define SLAs/SLOs and platform KPIs (time-to-provision, change lead time enablement, developer satisfaction); and continuously improve usability, documentation, and support. Expand automation and infrastructure-as-code practices by standardizing version-controlled blueprints (e.g., Terraform modules), GitOps based change workflows, continuous delivery practices, automated environment creation, policy-as-code guardrails, automated testing/validation of infrastructure changes, and repeatable rollback patterns—reducing manual work while maintaining security and compliance requirements.
- Client venue enablement: Partner with clients to ensure stable connectivity, device readiness, integrations, and support processes; manage escalation paths and operational coordination to protect service during peak meal periods.
- Custom back-office systems (operational partnership): Partner with internal software teams to operationalize custom back-office applications (including Inventory and Menu Builder); ensure environments are monitored, deployments are repeatable, and incidents are triaged effectively.
- Service management, field support & SLAs: Lead ITIL-aligned processes and support operating models (service desk, escalations) with a focus on fast restoration and meeting SLAs/OLAs.
- Location onboarding & rollouts: Support new client launches, site transitions, and rollouts; ensure repeatability and scalability, readiness checklists, connectivity validat