Avangrid ยท 7 hours ago
Manager - Datacenter Infrastructure
Boston, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$145K/yr - $181K/yr
7+ years expAvangrid is seeking a highly skilled leader to join their team as a Manager of Datacenter Infrastructure. The role involves overseeing infrastructure aspects across the organization, managing technical teams, and ensuring operational efficiency in cloud storage and infrastructure environments.
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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
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
Preferred
Masters degree a plus
Project Management experience and Vendor and Licensing management experience is a plus
Extensive experience with IBM, Dell, and NetApp storage solutions
Proficiency in managing Brocade switches and directors
Proven experience in managing technical operations or infrastructure support teams in AWS and/or Azure cloud or data center environments
Hands-on experience with Nutanix, Microsoft, Red Hat Linux, Storage, or IBM Power AIX
Expertise in using Ansible for automation and also Infrastructure as Code deployment
Strong leadership and team management skills
Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities
Effective communication and collaboration skills
Company
Avangrid
Avangrid, Inc.
Founded in 1997Orange, Connecticut, USA
5001-10000 employees
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Late StageLeadership Team
Alfredo del Canto
SVP Chief of Staff to CEO
Bob Kump
Deputy CEO and President
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