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Iberdrola · 3 months ago

Manager - Datacenter Infrastructure

United States Of America, Massachusetts, Boston

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$145K/yr - $181K/yr

7+ years exp

AVANGRID MANAGEMENT COMPANY is seeking a highly skilled leader to join their dynamic organization as a Manager of Datacenter Infrastructure. The role involves overseeing all infrastructure aspects, managing technical teams, and ensuring the high availability and reliability of infrastructure to support critical applications.

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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

Qualification

Cloud Infrastructure ManagementStorage Solutions ExpertiseProject ManagementTeam LeadershipAnsible AutomationLinux/Unix AdministrationMicrosoft TechnologiesVendor ManagementAnalytical SkillsInterpersonal SkillsCommunication SkillsOrganizational Skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field with 7 years relevant experience required

Experience in working as an Infrastructure Manager, Microsoft Engineer, Linux/Unix sysadmin, Cloud Engineer, or a IT consulting role as well as prior managing IT Infrastructure projects and resolving day to day issues

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

Oversee, control and efficient, end to end on prem infrastructure. Ensuring infrastructure high availability and reliability to support Avangrid's critical applications

Excellent team leader