Vice President, Infrastructure & Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)Location: Houston, TX or Tampa, FL (Hybrid) or remote
Salary Range: $225,000 - $250,000 + Short-Term Incentive Plan (STIP) + Equity
Reports To: Chief Information Officer (CIO)
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Role OverviewAs the
VP of Infrastructure & CISO, you will serve as a dual-hatted, high-impact executive responsible for designing, securing, and modernizing DCI's global technology backbone. This is a
hands-on and strategic leadership role designed for a forward-thinking technologist who can manage day-to-day global engineering while steering DCI into the AI-driven world. You will bridge the gap between traditional infrastructure excellence and cutting-edge digital transformation, ensuring our global network is highly resilient, infinitely scalable, and robustly protected against emerging threat vectors.
Position Responsibilities1. Strategic Leadership & AI Progression
- As a core member of the IT Leadership Team, develop and implement a comprehensive infrastructure and information security strategy aligned with DCI's business goals.
- Actively participate in technology strategic planning, applying a future-focused vision to enable DCI's growth. Architect infrastructure and security frameworks that support data pipelines, cloud environments, and the deployment of AI/Machine Learning models
- Partner with business leaders to integrate secure infrastructure and AI-driven automation measures into all aspects of the organization, from planning to execution.
2. Global Infrastructure Engineering & Operations
- Oversee global infrastructure operations across 160+ locations, encompassing cloud topology (AWS/Azure), hybrid datacenters, SD-WAN networking, compute, storage, and unified communications.
- Direct the modernization of legacy environments into highly agile, automated, "Infrastructure as Code" (IaC) environments optimized for modern applications.
- Set, monitor, and enforce engineering standards across application, infrastructure, and data architectures.
- Ensure peak performance, high availability, and structural scalability of critical operational technologies supporting our global depot footprint.
3. Information Security, Governance & Risk Management
- Direct the development, recommendation, and championing of IT policies, standards, and procedures for information security, disaster recovery (DR), and business continuity (BC). Oversee and regularly test the global IT DR/BC program.
- Lead architecture and engineering, vulnerability management, security operations (SOC), compliance, identity and access management (IAM), and risk management.
- Ensure consistent compliance with all applicable global regulations, standards, and controls (e.g., PCI, NIST, GDPR, data privacy, vulnerability scanning, and encryption), collaborating closely with Enterprise Risk Management.
- Conduct regular security assessments and penetration tests to identify technical risks; develop and execute rapid mitigating actions.
- Oversee threat intelligence and the global Security Operations Center to ensure top-tier intrusion detection, incident response, and threat management.
4. Team, Financial & Vendor Management
- Champion an internal culture of security and technology excellence; lead educational efforts to protect DCI assets from physical and digital threats.
- Leverage strong financial acumen to develop multi-million dollar capital (CAPEX) and operational (OPEX) budgets, forecasts, and investment guardrails.
- The ability to translate deeply technical cyber risks into clear, financial, operational impacts to protect the balance sheet.
- Attract, mentor, and challenge a world-class, cross-functional global infrastructure and security team. Ensure internal staff and 3rd-party partners are optimized to handle enterprise demands.
- Manage vendor relationships and partnerships, leading product/service selection, contracting, and ongoing performance management alongside DCI's procurement function.
Qualifications- Education: Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Advanced degree (Master's/MBA) is strongly preferred.
- Leadership Experience: Minimum of 15 years of progressive IT experience, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role combining both Infrastructure and Information Security oversight. International experience a plus.
- Calm Under Fire: The ability to project absolute composure, which stabilizes the technical teams working the incident and reassures nervous executives.
- Translating "Geek to Greek": The unique ability to explain a highly complex technical vulnerability to a non-technical Board member or leadership team using simple, non-alarmist analogies.
- Hands-on & Strategic Balance: Proven track record of operating at a high strategic level with the ability to "roll up your sleeves" to troubleshoot complex architectural issues, infrastructure outages, or urgent security incidents alongside engineers.
- Modern Tech & AI Aptitude: Demonstrated experience optimizing enterprise infrastructure for high-density workloads, data analytics, and AI/automation initiatives. Strong grasp of cloud-native ecosystems.
- Industry Experience: Experience managing massive distributed footprints (e.g., 100+ locations in supply chain, logistics, retail, manufacturing, or global industrial services environments).
- Technical Frameworks & Certifications: Deep knowledge of framework standards (e.g., NIST, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, GDPR). Highly desirable certifications include CISSP, CISM, CCIE, or equivalent enterprise-level cloud/architecture credentials.
- Communication & Influence: Excellent interpersonal skills with extensive experience communicating risk, technology roadmaps, and business justifications to the C-suite, Board, and field operations.
- Change Management: Proven capability as a change agent, winning hearts and minds while driving large-scale IT transformations and enterprise-wide data/cloud infrastructure migrations.
- Global Regulatory, Compliance Expertise & Incident Response: Data privacy frameworks. Extensive knowledge of GDPR (Europe) and emerging regional privacy frameworks like the EU AI Act. Proven experience managing multi-jurisdictional containment, forensic, and PR strategies during a major, systemic breach.
DCI Benefits- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- 401(k) with generous employer match
- Paid time off
- 10 Paid holidays
- Optional Health savings account & Flexible spending account
- Life insurance
- Parental leave
- Tuition reimbursement
