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Manager – Datacenter Infrastructure
| Company | Iberdrola Group |
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| Location | Rochester, NY, USA |
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| Salary | $125700 – $157200 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field with 7 years relevant experience required.
- Masters degree a plus.
- Experience in working as an Infrastructure Manager, Microsoft Engineer, Linux/Unix sysadmin, Cloud Engineer, or an IT consulting role as well as prior managing IT Infrastructure projects and resolving day to day issues.
- Project Management experience and Vendor and Licensing management experience is a plus.
- Strong technical, analytical, interpersonal, collaboration, organizational skills and ability to perform efficiently and effectively in a dynamic environment is required.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- The ability to proactively identify innovative solutions to challenging problems and explain complex concepts and risk both simply and accurately to non-technical users.
- Management skills including staff development and budget.
- Strong overall understanding of relevant business procedures.
- Understanding of on prem distributed systems architecture and functioning, virtualization and hyperconvergence, including Windows, Linux and AIX operating systems, and their interdependences with critical IT Systems.
- Understanding of Storage and Backup technologies and topologies, and their interactions with the different infrastructure, on prem, AWS and/or Azure.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage high-performing technical teams in cloud storage and infrastructure environments.
- Infrastructure lifecycle management (HW/SW).
- Automate storage infrastructure using Ansible.
- Identifies opportunities for improving operational efficiency and reliability while reducing costs.
- Engagement with Applications Team in order to define requirements and needs for Applications Projects execution. Resource planning and assignment to applications projects in alignment with Infrastructure projects pipeline.
- Ensure the delivery of services in line with IT metrics and processes. Provide leadership for client led and IT led projects.
- Handles task prioritization, performance monitoring, task assignment, task status reporting, project work, and overall lifecycle planning.
- Ownership of the infrastructure inventory in the corporate CMDB, ensuring the quality of the data.
- Manages budgets, dossiers, licensing, contract spend approvals and reports on budget variances.
- Local and Global Project Management Delivery.
- Manage coordination with the Global peers in TPO. Coordination for global TPO infrastructure related projects.
- Manages resources (people, processes and technology).
- Maintains and develops the needed skills of the staff. Communicates employee feedback, researches and resolves employee questions, and reports performance appraisal results.
- Defines learning paths for the team continuous training.
Preferred Qualifications
- Extensive experience with IBM, Dell, and NetApp storage solutions.
- Proficiency in managing Brocade switches and directors.
- Proven experience in managing technical operations or infrastructure support teams in AWS and/or Azure cloud or data center environments.
- Hands-on experience with Nutanix, Microsoft, Red Hat Linux, Storage, or IBM Power AIX.
- Expertise in using Ansible for automation and also Infrastructure as Code deployment.
- Strong leadership and team management skills.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills.
