Infrastructure Lead
My client is a world leader in the distribution of food and non-food products around the world. Due to expansion, they are now looking for an Infrastructure Lead to join their growing team. You will be focused on ensuring delivery of Technical Services across my client’s infrastructure landscape. You will also lead a team to deliver best in breed IT Services.
Responsibilities:
• Develop a strong understanding of my clients business units, their goals, business strategy and technology landscape
• You will define and maintain comprehensive infrastructure views (current and future)
• You will provide technology leadership, infrastructure oversight and high-level solution design guidance for key technology initiatives and strategic planning Contribute to initial infrastructure set-up and project requirements.
• You will assure that a long-term support process is in-place including managed support, ongoing patching, and updates, monitoring and callout alerts and support contracts with partners.
• Keep updated on emerging technologies and assist with technology vendor and product selection activities
• You will also work with the Mergers & Acquisition team to conduct M&A due diligence and develop an M&A playbook
• Build and maintain working relationships with business/technology stakeholders, subject-matter experts and key vendor partners
• Execute my clients network technology strategy and roadmap. Network technology includes WAN, SDLAN, Wireless RF, routers, cabling, switches, access points, VPN, mobile phone contracts, etc.
• Manage my clients cloud technologies and collocated data centers strategy and roadmap. Facilitate for my client the adoption of cloud-based applications by guiding projects through the learning curve for server set-up, and turnover for ongoing management.
• Participate fully in the change and incident process for my client’s infrastructure. Provide quality communication and documentation in support of changes to infrastructure, root cause analysis and solutions.
• Ensure that my clients Infrastructure strategy addresses regulatory compliance requirements.
Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer science or equivalent.
• 7+ years work experience in IT
• 5 + years of Infrastructure subdomain experience
• Ability to lead team of engineers and technicians located across the region
• Experienced working in a large, multi-unit enterprise context and familiarity with mergers & acquisitions and business-unit integration processes/activities
• Proven experience of hands-on technical delivery including systems analysis, development, project management and/or production support
• Knowledge of a wide variety of technologies including ERP, consumer-facing web/mobile, custom development, application integration, infrastructure, cloud, SaaS, and/or security technologies
• Strong influencing skills to enable effective completion of tasks both individually and within matrixed teams
• Ability to break down complex, multi-faceted concepts into understandable solutions/options and effectively communicate to a range of business and technical audiences
• Experienced in Agile and DevOps environments is strongly preferred
If you are happy to be represented by Solas and be put forward for this role (or would like more information) please email me with your CV via the link, indicating if wish to be represented by Solas. Alternatively please call me (T: 00 353 1 5367381)
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