Manager, IT Infrastructure

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• This job is a member of the Information Technology Team, within the Information Technology Division.
• This position is responsible for effectively managing Infrastructure services provided to application teams within American Airlines IT.

• Collaborates with Business and IT leadership to determine and communicate vision, direction, and work priorities, and drives progress towards technology target roadmaps
• Ensures that sound agile project management, business analysis, and quality assurance processes are in place and practiced
• Removes roadblocks, cultivates relationships, and effectively communicates across Enterprise at various levels of leadership
• Defines a sustainable engagement process for project teams to work with Customer Technology Infrastructure
• Conceive solutions, build consensus, and execute solutions
• Proactively recommends courses of action to maintain cost effectiveness and competitiveness; identifies opportunities and recommends solutions for improving service efficiency and effectiveness
• Proactively identifies troublesome trends as they develop; analyze/predicts trends and develop a long-range plan designed to resolve problems and prevent them from recurring
• Ensures a stable production environment for applications being supported and reviews high impact outages to ensure the proper processes and procedures are in place to avoid future occurrences
• Participates in various IT projects intended to continually improve/upgrade the infrastructure, such as evaluation of new software and hardware required to meet a business need or to make a process more cost effective.
• Manages and leads adoption and migration of new and emerging technologies
• Works extended hours occassionally, based on the needs of the project and operational support

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• 7 years of related experience in environments designing, planning, and implementing solutions using the latest technology
• 5 years of leadership experience overseeing large technology projects from inception to implementation in an enterprise environment

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• 3+ years of experience working with external vendors, negotiating services, and monitoring delivery of those services
• Airline industry experience, including business process and supporting technology

• Proven ability to build, cultivate, and promote strong relationships with internal customers at all levels of the organization, as well as with IT counterparts, business partners, and external groups
• Proficiency with managing multiple technically complex projects and implementations
• Experience working with Agile project management methodologies and tools
• Experience in Dev Ops Toolchain methodologies, including Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
• Thorough understanding of distributed systems architecture and exposure to multiple technical disciplines including:
• Unix, Linux and Windows
• Databases
• High-Availability, Redundancy, Clustering, Disaster Recovery, Load Balancing
• Hardware platforms and Networking
• Ability to conduct and prepare feasibility studies; develop outsourcing proposals and Service Level Agreements (SLAs), including estimates for costs, time, and resources; prepare statistical reports; complete…