Manager, Data Center Infrastructure

Job Description

The Mgr Infrastructure provides technical and managerial leadership in the design, planning, operation, maintenance, and advanced troubleshooting of infrastructure administration. This position ensures continuity and alignment of the infrastructure with strategic business requirements, and participates in architecting the server infrastructure and in the development of guidelines, procedures, and standards. This position must stay abreast of latest technology developments to ensure service levels proactively meet or exceed company requirements and service level agreements with key stakeholders and vendors. Administrative duties including resource management, budgeting, presenting team status, and vendor relations are all essential duties.

Essential Responsibilities :

Lead the design and architecture of secure and scalable VSI solutions for the entire enterprise

Provide leadership, coordination, and communication for projects involving systems solutions

Develop and maintain policies, architecture, frameworks, roadmaps, and standards that deliver strategic IT goals, business priorities, and comply with technical and industry / regulatory standards

Data analysis of complex systems as well as ongoing optimization of such systems

Supervise Systems Engineering team to address day-to-day issues and develop and execute longer term initiatives

Provide Tier III support for all infrastructure components

Propose solutions that have a budgetary component

Assess emerging industry trends; anticipate and develop strategic solutions

Mentor and manage team members both technically and professional to develop a mature team capable of meeting business requirements

General Responsibilities :

Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications :

Education : Bachelor's Degree required.

Experience : 5 or more years of experience in voice network engineering with at least 3 years of progressive leadership experience required.

Licensure / Certifications / Registrations Required : One of the following certifications required within 2 years of hire :

VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization

VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Data Center Virtualization Design

VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Data Center Virtualization Deploy

Microsoft Certified : Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

Ability to manage a team

Demonstrate a management style that encourages mentorship, teamwork, participation, communication, and service orientation

Effective and professional communication and interpersonal skills

Ability to think creatively and be agile

Ability to analyze complex information and solve problems

Expert ability to collaborate with peers including interdepartmental and clinical

Ability to communicate with all levels of management

Effective and professional communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills

Expert ability to operate, communicate, and manage staff and key stakeholders during times of high impact outages or unplanned interruption in services

Ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions based on accurate and timely analysis

Demonstrate executive presence and thorough thinking while being knowledgeable across all levels of the enterprise