As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.
Job Description
Sr Director Operations
Locations: Kansas City, Mo | Remote
Get To Know the Team
The SS&C Blue Prism Operations team is a diverse group of professionals distributed across the globe. They manage the hosting of Blue Prism Chorus, Blue Prism Enterprise, NextGen, and Document Automation in both public and private cloud environments across multiple regions.
We are seeking a dynamic, results-driven Operations Director to lead and enhance our hosting business. This key leadership role blends strategic vision with operational execution to drive efficiency, growth, and transformation. You will oversee daily operations, align regional and service teams, and lead initiatives to achieve business objectives.
Why You Will Love It Here!
- Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model and Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans
- Your Future: 401k Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement
- Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
- Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave
- Wide Ranging Perspectives: Committed to Celebrating the Variety of Backgrounds, Talents and Experiences of Our Employees
- Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University
- Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!
What You Will Get to Do
- Lead the strategic and day-to-day operations of on-premises and hybrid cloud data center environments in multiple countries.
- Ensure high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), and business continuity (BCP) strategies are robust and tested.
- Optimize capacity planning, hardware lifecycle management, and cost efficiency.
- Oversee the deployment, maintenance, and reliability of enterprise software and internal systems.
- Establish and enforce SLA-driven performance monitoring, incident response, and root cause analysis.
- Drive automation and observability across systems using modern SRE and DevOps principles.
- Ensure compliance with ISO, SOC, NIST, GDPR, and other industry standards.
- Work with security teams to mitigate cyber threats, enforce zero-trust security models, and manage data protection policies.
- Lead and mentor cross-functional teams including infrastructure engineers, system admins, and software reliability engineers.
- Collaborate with product, software, and business teams to align hosting strategy with company goals.
- Drive cost optimization and operational efficiency across IT infrastructure.
What You Will Bring
- 10+ years of experience in data center operations, IT infrastructure, or cloud/hybrid environments.
- Strong expertise in servers, networking, storage, virtualization, and Kubernetes/containerized environments.
- Experience with automation, infrastructure as code (IaC), and observability tools (Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, Datadog, etc.).
- Knowledge of enterprise software operations, SRE best practices, and DevOps methodologies.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and hybrid cloud architectures.
Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers.
#LI-PE1
#LI-HYBRID
Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.
SS&C offers excellent benefits including health, dental, 401k plan, tuition and professional development reimbursement plan.
SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.
Top Skills
What We Do
SS&C is a global provider of investment and financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Named to Fortune 1000 list as top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut and has 22,000+ employees in over 150 offices in 35 countries. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest institutions to local firms, manage and account for their investments using SS&C's products and services.
.png)
