Director of IT Services
Ravi Jackson,MS
Director of IT Services
Full Time • Ravi Jackson,MS
Job Title: Director of IT Services – Mississippi Medicaid
Job Code: MS 165756
Client: State of Mississippi – Division of Medicaid (DOM)
Location: Jackson, MS – 100% Onsite
Duration: 1+ Year, with potential extensions
Work Hours: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM (40 hours/week)
Closing Date: September 22, 2026 – 2:00 PM
Client: State of Mississippi – Division of Medicaid (DOM)
Location: Jackson, MS – 100% Onsite
Duration: 1+ Year, with potential extensions
Work Hours: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM (40 hours/week)
Closing Date: September 22, 2026 – 2:00 PM
Position Overview
The State of Mississippi Division of Medicaid is seeking a Director of IT Services to provide executive-level IT leadership and operational oversight across enterprise infrastructure, cloud services, network operations, service desk, cybersecurity, vendor management, and technology modernization initiatives. The position reports directly to the CIO/CTO and supports ongoing enterprise IT operations and modernization efforts.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide leadership for enterprise cloud services, infrastructure, network, telecommunications, and IT service desk operations.
- Oversee AWS cloud environments, cloud migration, provisioning, governance, cost optimization, security, and resiliency.
- Manage enterprise LAN/WAN, DNS, load balancing, wireless, firewalls, and telecommunications.
- Lead incident response, major incident management, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
- Oversee infrastructure operations including compute, storage, virtualization, backup, monitoring, and disaster recovery.
- Partner with cybersecurity teams on HIPAA, CMS, security controls, audits, risk assessments, and compliance.
- Provide executive oversight of vendors, managed service providers, procurement, SOWs, contracts, and vendor performance.
- Establish IT service management and governance processes covering incident, problem, change, configuration, request, and service-level management.
- Develop SOPs, dashboards, executive reports, service catalogs, and operational documentation.
- Lead technology modernization and technology lifecycle management initiatives.
Required Skills
- 10+ years progressive IT experience with enterprise IT operations and infrastructure.
- 8+ years leadership/management experience supervising technical teams, managers, engineers, and support personnel.
- 2+ years AWS enterprise cloud experience with:
- EC2
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- S3
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- IAM
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- VPC
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- CloudWatch
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- Landing Zone
- 2+ years enterprise networking experience including LAN/WAN, DNS, load balancing, wireless, and telecommunications.
- Experience with enterprise monitoring and observability platforms.
- Strong IT Service Management, governance, incident response, infrastructure operations, and vendor management experience.
- Experience with cloud migration, disaster recovery, high availability, cybersecurity, and compliance.
- Strong communication, leadership, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.
Primary Skills
IT Leadership, IT Operations, Infrastructure Management, AWS, EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Cloud Migration, Enterprise Networking, LAN/WAN, DNS, F5 BIG-IP, IT Service Management, Incident Response, Cybersecurity, HIPAA, CMS Compliance, Vendor Management, Procurement, Contract Management, Disaster Recovery, High Availability, Monitoring, Governance, Technology Modernization, Azure, Microsoft 365.
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