Monday, April 30, 2007
Infrastructure Manager in Dallas, TX
Infrastructure Manager: Responsibilities • Work with the CIO to define the infrastructure for the enterprise and identify major areas of improvement • Define and enforce technical standards and procedures • Apply enterprise vision to all infrastructure projects • Proactively recommend courses of action to maintain cost effectiveness and competitiveness and stability of environment • Oversee all project and resource allocation within the infrastructure domain • Proactively assist in defining direction for future projects • Ensure a stable performance environment enterprisewide:  Monitor and analyze problems that occur, ensuring that problems are identified and solved as rapidly and efficiently as possible  Oversee the provision of critical and essential infrastructure services to locations enterprisewide • Collaborate with the business IT leadership team and the business project managers to evaluate new development projects and to determine their impact on infrastructure. • Prepare impact studies that describe the ramifications of new systems for data center operations, network operations, and client support services. • Ensure the security of data access through the use of the corporate data security policy • Assist with the development of a disaster recovery plan to prevent interruption of critical business functions through the loss of data • Ownership of Backup & Restore Planning and Testing • Vendor relationship management of outsourced resources (SLAs) • Manager product vendor relationships and contracts • Ownership of Go/No-Go on Production Readiness Review of all Project • In-depth working knowledge and oversight Cisco VoIP Telephony IRCC Enterprise, Cisco Call Manager 5, Unity Voicemail, Cisco IVR <br/><br/>All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be authorized to work in the United States. All applicants applying for Canadian job openings must be authorized to work in Canada. Experience: Required Qualifications: • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline and/or equivalent experience • Six to eight years of related experience in infrastructure/network environments performing network engineering (hardware and software), designing, planning, and implementing LANs/WANs using the latest technology • At least five years of experience in project management demonstrating high competency in the leadership of large-scale projects of significant resources with high quality deliverables • Significant experience and knowledge in new computing infrastructures and implementation of network computing structures; plus experience with web technology • Previous experience in business process re-engineering or process improvement, involving broad-based information systems, utilizing tools and techniques to effect business change; business systems analysis experience preferred • Five or more years of human resources management experience, leading multidiscipline, high-performance work teams/groups • Demonstrated competency in developing efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems • Ability to manage multiple projects in a cross-functional environment • Change Agent mindset with outstanding change management skills • Ability to adapt rapidly changing technology requirements and business needs • Strong customer focus and ability to manage client expectations whilst maintaining customer satisfaction • Effective interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written; ability to present and explain technical information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others and gains understanding • Fast learner and a motivated self-starter who can grasp theory quickly and apply it practically with minimal management intervention • Experience in creating and defining new architectural models and explaining complex problems or situations • Experience in managing budgets • Ability to plan infrastructure requirements one to three years in advance and aid others in accomplishing annual goals • Thorough understanding of distributed systems architecture and comprehensive knowledge of multiple technical disciplines • Assess corporate initiatives and manage reporting process for these initiatives Preferred Qualifications: • Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline Primary Equipment (Technology) Used • Network: Ethernet, and TCP/IP (Cisco 10/100/1000 Switches, Routers, Quality of Service, Cat 5 & 6e, Cisco Wireless), iPatch • Computing Platforms: Intel-based PC’s, Dell Servers, EMC storage, Taradata, VMWare EXS3 managed by Virtual Center v2 • Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP, Windows Server 2003, Linux Debian 4.0 Software: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, MS Project & Project Server, Visio, MS SharePoint, MS Foundations Server, FaxCore To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here