Senior Manager - Server

Senior Manager - Server

Location:

1580 Valley River Drive, Eugene, OR 97401 - Only Local candidates

• Direct management of the team responsible for ensuring a stable and secure technical infrastructure supporting the organizational needs, including systems, server, and storage technologies.
• Overall management of technology-based projects and tasks within organizational projects, including budgets, equipment procurement and integration. Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects.
• Manage and support data center facility/services including the Server and storage infrastructure. Manage after-hours systems maintenance as required.
• Develop standard operating procedures and best practices, including providing written protocols and guidance to IT staff.
• Lead efforts in evaluating and selecting hardware and software products to meet the organization’s defined needs and to position the organization for strategic expansion. Keep current with the latest technologies and determine what new technology solutions and implementations will meet business and system requirements.
• Develop and implement all IT policies and procedures, including those for architecture, security, disaster recovery, standards, purchasing, and service provision.
• Advise department team members on procedures, techniques, and requirements to ensure maximum performance and availability of the company infrastructure. Recommend areas for improvement in both processes and systems
• Establish, implement, and manage Service Level Agreements (SLA) for all requests made of engineering resources. Proactively manage units through analysis of requests to ensure proper staffing.
• Communicate effectively with supervisors, peers, project managers, and stakeholders.
• Ensure security and operational standards and procedures are maintained in accordance to HIPPA standards and industry best practices.
• Perform risk analysis to identify IT security issues and remediating plans. Identify and manage mitigation of operational risks where appropriate.

• Undergraduate degree in computer science or relevant field, or, high school diploma/GED and 4 years additional experience as stated in the Required Qualifications
• Ten years of progressive IT experience.
• Five years of professional IT management experience in a medium or large size environment.
• Five years of experience leading infrastructure teams.
• Three years of experience as a people manager
• Demonstrated ability to lead a team of technical staff, to work with the Executive Management of an organization
• Extensive knowledge and experience working in physical datacenter, data center operations, datacenter applications, virtualized client/server computing, and production operations support.
• Knowledge of Server and Storage Infrastructure, VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Servers, Microsoft 365, Active Directory, and Backup Technologies

• Strong Project management experience and strong documentation skills.

• Excellent interpersonal skills including written and verbal skills.

• Graduate Degree
• Technical or managerial credentials, including PMP, CISM, VMware (VCP), Cisco (CCNA/CCNP), etc.