Industry - IT

Category - IT & Systems

Skills - infrastructure, LAN, WAN, Data center, NOC, NEtwork, End User, CCNA, CCI, IT Procurement, EUC, cloud

Job Description - Looking to hire General Manager of IT Infrastructure covering Data Centre Operations, Network Operations, IT Procurement, IT Security Audit, General IT Operations with 11-14 years of overall experience in a multinational, multi-location setup with a team of at-least 20 individuals.

Client Details : 

Our client is a group of tech businesses with a group enterprise value of over USD 1.2 billion with 1500+ employees across offices in India, US & UAE. The company has invested in multiple category business areas as diverse as web presence (domains, hosting, cloud-infrastructure), online advertising, communication & collaboration (voice and messaging) and payments (benefits and compensation).

With expanding operations they are currently looking at hiring a seasoned professional to head IT Infrastructure for 4 - 5 of their businesses. The incumbent can be based out of Mumbai / Bengaluru.
 
Job Description : 

As the General Manager of the Corporate IT function, you will direct all aspects of IT infrastructure including Corporate IT support, DC Operations, Procurement & 24/7 SOC/NOC functions across offices and data centers.

You will work closely with a team of highly technical infrastructure professionals, leading each said function, in executing the vision.

Corporate IT:

- Responsible for all aspects of Corporate IT Operations

- Deploy and manage internal infrastructure to support businesses

- Oversee end user support across offices with a heterogeneous environment (Linux, OSX, -Windows)

- Formulate and implement an effective BCP/DR strategy for corporate services

Data center Operations:

- Responsible for all aspects of physical DC Operations across all Data Centers

- Capacity planning to ensure we have adequate bandwidth, space and power at all times

- Setting up new Data Centers as required by business

Network Operations:

- Manage all global networking infrastructure

- Work with team to effectively design, implement and maintain a secure network

- Deliver 99.99 % network up time

- Formulate and implement effective DDOS mitigation strategy

- Work with RIR's like ARIN for IP/AS allocation etc

System Operations:

- Oversee the function of the 24X7 operations team

- Managing incident response

Procurement:

- Vendor relationship management

- Software/Hardware Asset Management

- Identify new Vendors/OEMs as required by the business from time to time

Profile : 

- 10-14 years of experience managing DC/IT operations for a high tech organisations

- Experience in setting up and running co-located data centers

- Exposure to dealing with DC/Telecom vendors

- Effectively coach & drive people, work along with them in the trenches and can deliver results rapidly

- Good communication & people management skills

- Good understanding of Linux/Windows operating systems

- Good understanding of DNS & Networking fundamentals, JunOS/IOS and technologies such as BGP, STP, JunOS, IOS, VRRP, LLDP, SNMP, OSPF etc

- Great customer service attitude & effective and decisive leadership

- Ability to work with a distributed team across diverse geographical time zones

- Open to domestic/international travel.

Job Offer : 

A great opportunity to work with a leading Technology setup in a senior position.

Page Group India is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Contact - Rubinder Kaur - +91 124 452 5438

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