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The Associate Director will lead client engagements by implementing technical infrastructure and cloud solutions while fostering strong C-level relationships. They are responsible for mentoring teams, driving business development, and ensuring the successful delivery of project work plans.
Candidates must have at least 9 years of professional experience in technology consulting or managed services with hands-on expertise in cloud, networking, and server administration. A bachelor's degree in a relevant field and professional certifications such as AWS or Azure Architect are strongly preferred.
You Belong Here
The Protiviti Career provides opportunity to learn, inspire, and advance within a collaborative and inclusive culture. We hire curious individuals for whom learning is a passion. We lean into our mission: We Care. We Collaborate. We Deliver.
At every level, we champion leaders who live our values of integrity, inclusion, innovation, and commitment to success. Imagining our work as a journey, we believe integrity guides our way, inclusion moves us forward together, innovation creates new destinations, and our commitment to success empowers us to deliver on our vision to be the most trusted global consulting firm.
Where We Need You
Protiviti is looking for a Technology Consulting Associate Director to join our growing Infrastructure, Cloud, & Security Engineering team.
What You Can Expect
As an Associate Director, you'll take a lead role in strengthening our relationships with clients and providing seamless guidance in the completion of engagements. You'll partner with our strategic clients to advise on and implement technical solutions to their most pressing challenges.
Additionally, you’ll help identify new businesses and build lasting relationships with clients and within the community as you serve as an ambassador of Protiviti in the market. You will also be a mentor and provide growth and development to teams as you oversee the successful completion of project work plans.
What Will Help You Be Successful
You enjoy working across infrastructure, networking, and cloud platforms to design, build, migrate, and/or secure systems and environments.
You are passionate about building trusted relationships with C-level executives and providing exceptional experiences that translate to additional project work.
You have an inherent interest in project management and team leadership.
You promote a positive team culture that fosters open communication among all engagement team members.
You create development opportunities for others, including participating in the creation and rollout of training, and ways for your team to improve our clients and communities.
You enjoy discovering prospective project work with current and potential clients through networking, knowledge-building, and client interactions.
You excel at identifying opportunities to integrate product solutions and resources to improve client service capabilities.
You view client challenges as opportunities to add value and can translate that into new project proposals and sales.
You are seen as a valued contributor to thought leadership and encourage knowledge-sharing and collaboration across teams.
You have interest in managing a diverse portfolio of clients across industries.
Do Your Talents Include the Following?
Recent hands-on design, deployment, and/or administration experience in Windows Server and Linux systems administration
Working familiarity with Unix variants and Mac OS; prior administration experience a plus
Working familiarity with Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and other IaaS providers preferred
Strong enterprise networking design, deployment, and/or administration experience
Working familiarity with enterprise-class vendors and product lines strongly preferred (e.g. Cisco, Cisco Meraki, HPE/Aruba, Juniper, Extreme, Brocade)
Working familiarity with enterprise-class network security appliance vendors and product lines strongly preferred (e.g. Cisco, Cisco Meraki, Palo Alto, Fortinet)
Working familiarity with SMB/”prosumer” vendors and product lines a plus (e.g. Ubiquiti/UBNT, SonicWall, Mikrotik) a plus
Working familiarity with load balancers, VPN appliances/concentrators a plus
In depth understanding of current enterprise design patterns and norms for basic networking capabilities/concepts (e.g. TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLAN segmentation, routing and switching, wireless)
Strong familiarity with SMB and entry-level on premises computing infrastructure technologies
Working familiarity with multiple server hardware vendors and associated management tools/platforms (e.g. Dell, HPE, Cisco, SuperMicro) strongly preferred
Working familiarity with hypervisor platforms (e.g. VMware vSphere/ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, or others) strongly preferred
Strong familiarity with enterprise storage
Working familiarity with DAS, SAN, and NAS/filer solutions
Working understanding of contemporary network storage protocols and interconnect methods (e.g. iSCSI, CIFS, FibreChannel, NFS)
Strong familiarity with basic on premises infrastructure management best practices
Rack management
Power and cooling demand management
Physical security
Strong familiarity with scripting for administrative, auditing, and other operational purposes
Prior experience writing PowerShell, Python, BASH/other Linux shell scripts strongly preferred
Prior experience with typical infrastructure and server/endpoint management toolsets
Performance and capacity management tools
Endpoint management / RMM platforms
Patch and vulnerability management tools
Log and event aggregation technologies (Kafka, SIEMs, Splunk, etc.)
Prior experience with capacity planning, VM/server “right-sizing”, performance analysis
Prior experience and ownership designing server, network, application solutions through deployment phase
Prior experience administrating Office 365 services
Prior experience administrating Microsoft Exchange, Google G Suite/Workspace is a plus
Experience designing, building, or remediating an environment to meet specific regulatory requirements such as PCI-DSS, CMMC, NIST 800-53
Prior experience translating undocumented systems / applications / operating procedures into usable documentation is absolutely necessary; Ability to update or create visualizations of dependency maps or architecture overviews is a must
Prior experience with integration of IT systems in a post-merger/acquisition environment
Prior experience with application rationalization / dependency mapping exercises
Prior experience designing, implementing, or administrating backup and replication/continuity solutions for server, storage, and application infrastructure
Familiarity with typical project management methods (Agile, Waterfall, etc.)
Prior experience translating business requirements (e.g. compliance controls, vendor / business partner requirements) into technical configurations / solutions
Prior experience dealing with third party hardware/software/service vendors preferred
Prior experience translating business continuity / disaster recovery requirements into technical solution designs preferred
Establishing and cultivating business relationships and a professional network, including with senior executives.
Successfully pursuing business development opportunities and identifying and implementing strategies to obtain new work or clientele.
Ability to translate and communicate issues, risks or challenges to client personnel, including executives
Leadership and direct supervisory experience of teams including conducting performance appraisals, mentoring and coaching, oversight and review of work, coordination across teams, and understanding how to motivate.
Your Educational and Professional Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in (Comp Sci, Comp Eng, Networking) or relevant field, or equivalent experience delivering technology or consulting solutions
9+ years working in professional services or related fields such as managed services or in a “hands-on” pre-sales role
Professional Certification such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, DevOps Engineer Expert or similar strongly preferred
Excellent verbal and written English
Comfortable collaborating with key business executives, system/application owners or stakeholders in group conversation or direct interview contexts
Ability to rapidly shift between planning / design work and practical execution (“hands on keyboard” tasks for discovery or implementation) is an absolute necessity
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills required
Personal projects / demonstrated extracurricular interest in technology a plus
Our Hybrid Workplace
Protiviti practices a hybrid model, which is a combination of working in person with a purpose and working remotely. This model creates meaningful experiences for our people and our clients while offering a flexible environment. The ratio of remote to in-person requirements vary by client, project, team, and other business factors. Our people work both in-person in local Protiviti offices and on client sites, which can include local or out-of-state travel based on our projects and client requests and commitments.
Starting salary is based on a full-time equivalent schedule. Placement in the range is dependent upon experience, skills and geographic work location. Below is the salary range for this job.
$163,000.00 - $278,000.00Our annual bonus plan provides eligible employees additional cash and/or discretionary stock compensation opportunities. Below is the bonus target opportunity for this job.
16%The total cash range is estimated from the sum of the base salary range plus the bonus target opportunity. Below is the estimated total cash range for this job.
$189,080.00 - $322,480.00Employees are eligible for medical, dental, and vision coverages, FSA and HSA healthcare accounts, life and accident insurance, adoption and fertility assistance, paid parental leave up to 10 weeks, and short/long term disability. We offer eligible employees a company 401(k) savings and investment plan with an employer match of 50% on the first 6% of your contributions. We provide Choice Time Off (CTO) for vacation, personal needs, and sick time. The amount of (CTO) varies based on years of service. New hires receive up to 20 days of CTO per calendar year. Protiviti also recognizes up to 11 paid holidays each calendar year.
Learn more about the variety of rewards we offer at Protiviti at https://www.protiviti.com/sites/default/files/2026-01/2026_u.s._benefit_highlights.pdf.
Any benefits outlined are part of our reward offerings for full-time employees in the U.S. Your Open Enrollment materials, insurance contracts, plan documents and Summary Plan Descriptions together comprise the official plan document which legally governs the administration of your benefit plans. Protiviti reserves the right to terminate or amend your benefit plans in any way and at any time.
Protiviti is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/Disability/Veteran
As part of Protiviti’s employment process, any offer of employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
Protiviti is committed to being an equal employment employer offering opportunities to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to apply for a position, please contact us by sending an email to HRSolutions@roberthalf.com or call 1.855.744.6947 for assistance.
In your email please include the following:
The specific accommodation requested to complete the employment application.
The location(s) (city, state) to which you would like to apply.
For positions located in San Francisco, CA: Protiviti will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
For positions located in Los Angeles County, CA: Protiviti will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Protiviti is not registered to hire or employ personnel in the following states – West Virginia, Alaska.
Protiviti is not licensed or registered as a public accounting firm and does not issue opinions on financial statements or offer attestation services.
Protiviti (www.protiviti.com) is a global consulting firm that delivers deep expertise, objective insights, a tailored approach and unparalleled collaboration to help leaders confidently face the future. Protiviti and its independent and locally owned member firms provide clients with consulting and managed solutions in finance, technology, operations, data, digital, legal, HR, risk and internal audit through a network of more than 90 offices in over 25 countries. Named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for the 11th consecutive year, Protiviti Inc. has served more than 80 percent of Fortune 100 and nearly 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies. The firm also works with government agencies and smaller, growing companies, including those looking to go public. Protiviti Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Robert Half (NYSE: RHI).
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