19 Sep
IT Manager, Infrastructure Engineering
Vacancy expired!
- Provide overall global technical guidance and leadership in projects involving a variety of infrastructure technologies (e.g. cloud, storage, compute, network, etc.).
- Educate, consult and influence IT and business stakeholders to better understand existing infrastructure architecture risks, IT best practices, and infrastructure changes required to support business and IT strategies.
- Coordinate all infrastructure operational activities, processes and resources.
- Perform management tasks as required including team building, training, mentoring, coaching, performance reviews, disciplinary actions and any other related activities.
- Review and assess infrastructure solutions for specific challenges or risks and guide business enabling IT investment.
- Develop, document, make recommendations and communicate plans for investing in IT infrastructure, including analysis of cost reduction opportunities.
- Develop strategic and tactical plans as well as oversee implementation of global infrastructure architecture framework and standards for supporting proper life cycle management practices.
- Document and develop in-depth knowledge of the organization's existing global infrastructure architecture environment to establish enterprise infrastructure baselines.
- Professionally represent the infrastructure team as a technical consultant on projects.
- Drive re-use and enterprise-wide thinking within initiatives and projects.
- Directs the continuing review of systems and methods as well as the formulation of new and revised systems; determines appropriate changes to effect improvements, reduce costs, and enhance efficiencies.
- Provide rationale for infrastructure architecture and design decisions.
- Directs the team in the overall technical direction and ensures that all team members are in alignment with both departmental and business goals.
- Responsible for keeping server and storage infrastructure and operating system up to date, are patched according to cyber security guidelines and in a vendor supported state.
- Establishes, manages and approves configuration and change management policies to mitigate MTTF (Mean Time to Failure) for systems and applications in accordance to ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library).
- Research and stay current of changes and the latest industry best practices and strategies regarding IT infrastructure and related services (e.g. cloud computing, IaaS, PaaS, managed services, storage, etc.).
- Develop and present business cases and infrastructure architecture migration plans to management.
- Assist with the assessment, planning and implementing systems and integrations related to M&A activities.
- Planning and oversight of capital and operating budgets.
- Maintain project activities while leading infrastructure hardware and software implementation projects.
- Participate in other special projects and technology initiatives as required.
- 4-year degree in engineering, IT or related field and/or equivalent technical experience, plus at least 10 years of related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- ITIL certification preferred.
- Program/project management certification strongly preferred
- 10+ years of experience in information technology focusing in domain specific technologies with 3 years of hands-on experience in providing strategic and architectural guidance to large scale IT projects
- 3+ years program/project management experience
- Comprehensive working knowledge and experience with ITIL principles and processes
- 5+ years of experience with infrastructure architecture
- 5+ years of experience leading and managing technical teams
Vacancy expired!