Associate Director of System Administration
Scott Haight
Infrastructure Strategy. Operational Discipline. Executive Impact.
I build reliable infrastructure, lead high-performing operations teams, and translate technical complexity into language executives act on. With 15+ years across global enterprise environments, I connect engineering execution to the outcomes that actually move the business.
ROI & Financial Stewardship
Reliability & Resilience
Automation (Ansible / Python)
Executive Communication
Global Operations
200+
Enterprise Sites
Global footprint across Americas, EMEA & APAC
99.99%
Reliability Mindset
Built through standardization and disciplined ops
$25.5M
Budget Stewardship
Forecasting, chargeback, and run vs. change balance
Capabilities
Where I Can Help
- Stabilize operations and dramatically reduce incident noise.
- Modernize infrastructure with a clear, defensible ROI story.
- Build systems that scale without scaling headcount linearly.
- Create clarity across priorities, ownership, and execution.
- Translate technical tradeoffs into outcomes executives act on.
- Develop leaders and reduce toil to protect engineering retention.
Reputation
What I'm Known For
- Calm under pressure. Breaking messy problems into clear steps and keeping teams steady during incidents.
- Bilingual communicator. Routing tables with engineers. Business impact with executives. No translation lag.
- Standards over heroics. Repeatability creates speed and lowers incident frequency over time.
- Solutions-first. Surfaces options, tradeoffs, and a path forward — not just the problem.
- Invests in people. Builds leaders by explaining the why, creating ownership, and coaching through real work.
- ROI framing. Every infrastructure decision tied to business impact, risk, and total cost of ownership.