Manager IT Platform Services

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• Strategic Leadership
• Define and execute the data center platform services strategy in alignment with organizational objectives.
• Lead initiatives focused on platform modernization, automation, and optimization as required.
• Operational Management
• Oversee the day‑to‑day operations of platform services including compute, storage, virtualization, M365 and related middleware.
• Lead and drive continuous improvement opportunities with respect to stabilizing, standardizing, consolidating, and transforming our teams’ services to our internal customers.
• Ensure platform availability, performance, and disaster recovery readiness meet or exceed SLAs.
• Manage capacity planning, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Manage on‑call schedule for DCS teams.
• Incident response team member.
• Team Leadership & Development:
  Lead, mentor, and develop a team of platform engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Allocate resources effectively and prioritize initiatives based on business impact.
• Flexible work schedule (will require non‑normal working hours for certain migration and support activities).
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
• Partner with IT infrastructure, cloud, networking, and security teams to ensure integrated platform services.
• Collaborate with business units to understand requirements and deliver scalable solutions.
• Escalation POC for internal team members and external customers.
• Build strong internal customer relationships to ensure we are aligned to customer and business needs while prioritizing key initiatives.
• Collaboration with other teams ensuring a smooth transfer of tickets as appropriate.
• Work within established configuration and change management policies ensuring awareness, approval and success of changes made to the areas of responsibility.
• Provides guidance and direction on problems, solutions, system parameters and modifications; conducts operational walkthroughs to ensure completeness, accuracy, and efficiency of systems, programs or solutions to business problems.
• Proposes changes in operations and/or established systems in an effort to enhance controls or improve efficiencies through better use of technology.
• Governance & Compliance
• Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and corporate policies.
• Maintain a payment card industry compliant infrastructure environment; support annual internal and external audits and maintain necessary change management and documentation.
• Develop and maintain operational documentation, procedures, and best practices.
• Lifecycle management of Standard Operating Procedures and Knowledge Base.
• Financial Management
• Assist Sr. Manager with platform services budget, including hardware/software procurement and vendor relationships.
• Track and optimize total cost of ownership (TCO) for data center platform infrastructure.

• Bachelor’s or 4‑year degree.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience.
• 3+ years of management experience.

• Direct experience leading infrastructure operations and engineering support services.
• Direct experience leading and participating in large enterprise consolidation and integration projects.
• Direct experience with the creation & management of operational knowledge base articles.
• Knowledge of emerging data center technologies (HCI, SDN, SDDC).
• Budgeting, cost optimization, and financial forecasting experience.
• ITIL or similar service management certification.

• Seniority level:
  Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full‑time
• Job function:
  Information Technology
• Industries:
  Retail

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