Director of IT Infrastructure

Director of IT Infrastructure (GLO04519)

Global DeliveryPuneAbout UsZycus is a pioneer in Cognitive Procurement software and has been a trusted partner of choice for large global enterprises for two decades. Zycus has been consistently recognized by Gartner, Forrester, and other analysts for its Source to Pay integrated suite. Zycus powers its S2P software with the revolutionary Merlin AI Suite. Merlin AI takes over the tactical tasks and empowers procurement and AP officers to focus on strategic projects; offers data-driven actionable insights for quicker and smarter decisions, and its conversational AI offers a B2C type user-experience to the end-users.Zycus helps enterprises drive real savings, reduce risks, and boost compliance, and its seamless, intuitive, and easy-to-use user interface ensures high adoption and value across the organization.Start your #CognitiveProcurement journey with us, as you are #MeantforMore We Are An Equal Opportunity Employer : Zycus is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment and creating an inclusive work environment. We do not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic. All hiring decisions will be based solely on qualifications, skills, and experience relevant to the job requirements.Job DescriptionZycus is looking for Director of IT Infrastructure with hands-on experience in SaaS Infrastructure, Hybrid environment of Data Center Operations , Cloud and virtualization based technologies of Openshift , Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMWare, Azure, etc. Roles & Responsibilities

• Strong experience with Hybrid environment of Data Center Operations (physical as well as Cloud).
• Provides infrastructure services vision, enables innovation and seeks to leverage IT trends that can create business value - eg. CI / CD, DevOps implementation of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC),
• Drive Zycus’ IT Infra strategy. Excessively focused on Standardization on X86 and extreme virtualization using Suitable Hypervisor, VMWare, Nomad / Kubernetes as native on bare metal.
• Deliver best-in-class infrastructure engineering & operations solutions and processes. Drive the adoption of automation and end-to-end solutions within the team, with focus on continuous incremental improvements.
• Be the proponent and ensure the adoption of automated preventive maintenance to pro-actively manage the SaaS infrastructure and ensure overall system stability
• Be the Architect of Cloud Infrastructure and continuously identify opportunities for consolidation of technology platforms, automation, cost savings, and service quality improvement.
• Infrastructure Scaling, from an IT resource perspective to handle increased or decreased usage demands.
• Manage 24x7 support team, and lead SMEs of Infrastructure and Middleware teams to manage required Service SLAs through Change Management, Incident Management and Problem Management.
• Overall accountability for day to day management of IT Infrastructure (server and storage) - System uptime and SLA (Service Levels Agreement) management, Problem and Change management across multiple Hybrid Data Centers.
• Manage the IT budget, regularly reporting budget execution status versus plan
• Capacity management, Supply / Demand management for IT infrastructure requirements based on the existing projects and keeping future requirements in mind. Responsible for Change Management and Fleet Upgrades
• Conduct product and vendor evaluations ensuring best in class technologies and partners. Work closely with and manage strategic vendor partner relationships, including assistance in negotiations for IT related procurements.
• Interact with customers for demonstrating strength of SaaS IT & Security during Sales calls. Help Sales in responding to RFPs.
• Regularly review and audit the performance of the System Integrator and the Original Equipment Manufacture partners.
• Work closely with the security team to deploy Secure IT Infrastructure for the enterprise and customer projects
• Co-ordinate with the Disaster Recovery Manager to implement the exact set of policies and procedures for Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and DR

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About Us Zycus is a pioneer in Cognitive Procurement software and has been a trusted partner of choice for large global enterprises for two decades. Zycus has been consistently recognized by Gartner, Forrester, and other analysts for its Source to Pay integrated suite. Zycus powers its S2P software with the revolutionary Merlin AI Suite. Merlin AI takes over the tactical tasks and empowers procurement and AP officers to focus on strategic projects; offers data-driven actionable insights for quicker and smarter decisions, and its conversational AI offers a B2C type user experience to the end-users.Zycus helps enterprises drive real savings, reduce risks, and boost compliance, and its seamless, intuitive, and easy-to-use user interface ensures high adoption and value across the organization.Start your #CognitiveProcurement journey with us, as you are #MeantforMore