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Information Technology Operations Manager/Director
Confidential Jobs, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Information Technology Operations Manager/Director
Our client is looking for an energetic IT leader to oversee day-to-day IT operations and infrastructure management. This person will guide a technical team along with several vendor partners responsible for designing, testing, implementing, and supporting our enterprise IT infrastructure. This includes the data centers, Microsoft 365, Cisco networks, Windows servers, VoIP, VDI environment, and windows desktop endpoints.
This person should have strong project management and communication skills. The position requires a self‑motivated, organized, and data‑driven technical leader. ITIL discipline and experience is a significant plus.
This leader will work closely with decision makers in other departments to identify system capacity, availability, and recoverability requirements in order to recommend, develop, implement, and support cost‑effective architectures for the management of critical enterprise data. They will ensure high levels of data quality and application availability while containing costs. This individual will also evaluate new projects and applications to determine the infrastructure necessary to support them.
Lead, coach and develop a team
Manage multiple vendors, monitor invoicing, contracts, and SLAs
Communicate and coordinate effectively across the enterprise to ensure collaboration and quality service delivery
Maintain IT Operations operating and capital budget
Coordinate and ensure IT service maintenance while balancing system availability
Incident management (research, identify, track, and communicate incidents and problems within purview)
Establish and maintain proactive system and enterprise network monitoring
Identify key reports providing metrics for IT services (system availability, incident management, problem management)
Establish appropriate SLAs and metrics to measure and report regularly
Enforce ITIL discipline within the group, department, and organization with special focus on Incident Management, Change Management, Problem Management, Capacity Planning, Knowledge Management, and CMDB
Work with vendors to determine “out-of-box” solutions where appropriate
Establish minimal hardware/software standards that provide effective solutions based on roles and responsibilities of users
Develop, test, and maintain a proven disaster recovery/business continuity planning solution
Work closely with Information Security expert(s) to insure security of enterprise
Organize and prioritize assigned tasks within department to meet established schedules, timeliness, and/or deadlines
Requirements
5+ years of relevant leadership experience and/or college or advanced degree in IT/MIS
Strong technical proficiency with Microsoft Active Directory and related technologies
Strong technical proficiency with Microsoft 365
Proven tenure working to provide critical IT services
ITIL knowledge and experience a major plus
Experience and technical understanding of the following:
Data networking
Microsoft Windows
Data center operations
VoIP/UCaaS solutions
Virtual Desktop solutions
Information security
Networking, including WiFi and SD‑WAN
VPN
Seniority level Director
Employment type Full‑time
Job function Information Technology
Industries IT Services and IT Consulting
San Ramon, CA $113,000.00–$172,000.00 (1 month ago)
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This person should have strong project management and communication skills. The position requires a self‑motivated, organized, and data‑driven technical leader. ITIL discipline and experience is a significant plus.
This leader will work closely with decision makers in other departments to identify system capacity, availability, and recoverability requirements in order to recommend, develop, implement, and support cost‑effective architectures for the management of critical enterprise data. They will ensure high levels of data quality and application availability while containing costs. This individual will also evaluate new projects and applications to determine the infrastructure necessary to support them.
Lead, coach and develop a team
Manage multiple vendors, monitor invoicing, contracts, and SLAs
Communicate and coordinate effectively across the enterprise to ensure collaboration and quality service delivery
Maintain IT Operations operating and capital budget
Coordinate and ensure IT service maintenance while balancing system availability
Incident management (research, identify, track, and communicate incidents and problems within purview)
Establish and maintain proactive system and enterprise network monitoring
Identify key reports providing metrics for IT services (system availability, incident management, problem management)
Establish appropriate SLAs and metrics to measure and report regularly
Enforce ITIL discipline within the group, department, and organization with special focus on Incident Management, Change Management, Problem Management, Capacity Planning, Knowledge Management, and CMDB
Work with vendors to determine “out-of-box” solutions where appropriate
Establish minimal hardware/software standards that provide effective solutions based on roles and responsibilities of users
Develop, test, and maintain a proven disaster recovery/business continuity planning solution
Work closely with Information Security expert(s) to insure security of enterprise
Organize and prioritize assigned tasks within department to meet established schedules, timeliness, and/or deadlines
Requirements
5+ years of relevant leadership experience and/or college or advanced degree in IT/MIS
Strong technical proficiency with Microsoft Active Directory and related technologies
Strong technical proficiency with Microsoft 365
Proven tenure working to provide critical IT services
ITIL knowledge and experience a major plus
Experience and technical understanding of the following:
Data networking
Microsoft Windows
Data center operations
VoIP/UCaaS solutions
Virtual Desktop solutions
Information security
Networking, including WiFi and SD‑WAN
VPN
Seniority level Director
Employment type Full‑time
Job function Information Technology
Industries IT Services and IT Consulting
San Ramon, CA $113,000.00–$172,000.00 (1 month ago)
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