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# Interim Associate CIO

- **Company:** Insight Global
- **Location:** New Haven, CT, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $260,000.0 - $312,000.0
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Data Centers, Information Technology Operations
- **Published:** June 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000g7ouce

## About the Role

10+ years of infrastructure leadership experience, including time at the Senior Director, VP, or CIO level, with direct ownership of enterprise IT operations

Experience leading infrastructure organizations of 100+ people, managing managers and senior technical leaders across networking, servers, cloud, data centers, and telephony.

Hands-on accountability for IT operations and reliability, including incident management, outage response, and operational stabilization in high-availability environments

Demonstrated experience designing, enforcing, and correcting operational controls, such as change management, risk-based decision frameworks, and recovery procedures.

Proven track record stepping into unstable or post-incident environments, identifying root causes beyond documentation, and restoring discipline and execution

Excellent communication skills with the confidence and expertise to assess and advise changes and feedback to the CIO

## Description

Over the engagement, this leader will reinforce operational discipline by setting clear expectations around accountability, decision-making, and execution, while refining processes that are unclear or impractical. They will lead and coach infrastructure leaders, assess the effectiveness of the current reporting structure, and provide a clear point of view to executive leadership. The ultimate goal is to stabilize operations, restore consistent operating patterns, and prepare the organization for a smooth handoff back to permanent leadership. This person has to be comfortable with a rate of around $125-150/hr dependent on experience.


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