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.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Provide strategic and operational leadership for platform engineering, infrastructure, and IT operations to improve service stability and team performance.<br>• 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.<br>• Build and execute a modernization plan for enterprise platforms, including assessment of hybrid cloud, full cloud, managed service, and other future-state architecture options.<br>• 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.<br>• Establish stronger standards for infrastructure governance, lifecycle management, change control, release coordination, testing practices, and production readiness.<br>• Champion Site Reliability Engineering and observability efforts to improve system reliability, visibility, and operational response.<br>• Review availability, performance, and resilience metrics to identify technical debt, eliminate inefficiencies, and prioritize infrastructure improvements.<br>• Assess organizational capabilities, identify skill or leadership gaps, and implement changes that strengthen accountability, consistency, and execution.<br>• Collaborate with executive stakeholders to align infrastructure investments and transformation initiatives with long-term business objectives.