Manager-IT Engineering Cloud Systems

Manager-IT Engineering Cloud Systems

The IT Manager will be responsible for developing maintenance and growth plans, creating annual and project budgets, managing the IT staff day‑to‑day operations, and keeping the executive team up to date on the latest technologies to keep Penske moving forward.

As a Penske Manager of IT Engineering – Cloud Systems you will be working with and innovating Penske's cutting‑edge Cloud environment with a team of industry leading experts. You will lead the Cloud Engineering teams and support staff through a diverse range of projects. You will be responsible for the reliability, performance, recoverability, and security of the corporate AWS, GCP, and OCI Cloud environments and the underlying team that manages and supports the environment.

You will be keeping Penske updated with the latest technology and knowledge from the industry and implementing these changes across the entire organization.

• Maintain and recommend information technology strategies, policies, and procedures
• Manage staff, including recruiting, selecting, onboarding, training, coaching, and supervising associate performance.
• Oversee team performance on enterprise projects by coordinating resources and aligning objectives.
• Enable faster and smarter business processes and implement analytics for meaningful insights.
• Maintain reliability, performance, recoverability, and security of the corporate Cloud environment.
• Oversee daily operations of design, configuration, implementation, support, troubleshooting, maintenance, performance monitoring and the development of specialized procedures relating to the use of the corporate cloud computing environment.
• Work closely with technical staff on best practice development and implementation.
• Ensure the functional, cost effectiveness and timely support of systems on a 24x7 basis.
• Plan for growth and provide projections for business plan.
• Assess need for any system reconfigurations and execute them if required.
• Research and implement new open‑source and commercial tools, technologies and methodologies.
• Serve as thought leader and final decision maker able to drive the team to conclusions regarding technical solutions.
• Comfort working under pressure with evolving priorities and deadlines.
• Project management and leadership of technical teams to deliver projects on time while working with business stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of services.
• Proactive leadership, looking for a leader that doesn’t wait for the problems, rather one that will identify opportunities and formulate positive outcomes.
• Comfort in spanning teams and working with other responsible parties to drive positive outcomes to business requests.
• Understands what it means to be customer focused and that outcomes can take negotiation and understanding with the ability to balance what is being requested to what we are practically able to deliver.
• Other projects and tasks as assigned.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Engineering or related field required. If no degree, then at least 5 years of information technology management experience required.
• 2+ years of supervisory or team leadership experience highly preferred.
• 5+ years leading/supervising multiple enterprise level IT Infrastructure projects.
• Expertise in creating, analyzing, and repairing large‑scale distributed systems.
• Expertise in systems infrastructure and architecture, including:
• Cloud Platform & Tenant Management
• Expertise in AWS cloud environments
• Familiarity with other cloud providers such as GCP, and OCI
• Expertise in S3, EC2, Kubernetes, Tanzu, EKS, Terraform, Git Ops, Networking, Automation, Scripting, Observability, Backup, Monitoring.
• Deployment of scalable, resilient infrastructure with a strong commitment to uptime, performance, and responsiveness to business SLA’s
• Infrastructure management of Kubernetes service offerings
• Linux infrastructure support, deployment, and security.
• Multi‑cloud integrations, we have services that span our cloud tenants, familiarity with integrating services, providing guidance to engineering teams for execution and utilizing your…