Senior Systems Manager

Description

The Information Systems Manager is responsible maintaining the technological infrastructure, and day-to-day operations of our core teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the creation and ongoing refinement of a multi-year IT infrastructure roadmap, considering technological advancements and evolving organizational needs.
• Proactively identify opportunities to leverage new technologies or optimize existing ones, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Maintain current and future cloud environments including Azure and Microsoft365 suites, ensuring configurations match organizational workflows, data compliance needs, and collaboration requirements.
• Drive the continuous monitoring, optimization, and fine-tuning IT systems, paying particular attention to security configurations and user permissions.
• Manage the full life cycle of VMWare virtual environments, from design to deployment, scaling, and maintenance.
• Monitor virtual system health, ensuring optimized resource allocation, seamless migrations, and fault tolerance.
• Oversee the architectural design, deployment, and robustness of primary systems and solutions, ensuring they cater to remote work demands, application accessibility, and scalability concerns.
• Design and maintain backup strategies, ensuring data redundancy, quick recovery, and compliance with retention policies.
• Guide the design, implementation, and optimization of network infrastructures, with an emphasis on scalability, resilience, and high-availability design principles.
• Analyze metrics, troubleshoot bottlenecks, and ensure peak performance, zero downtime, and security.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to institute best practices, conduct regular vulnerability assessments, and drive security awareness initiatives.
• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and accountability within the IT team; providing mentorship, facilitating training opportunities, and setting clear performance metrics.
• Drive regular team syncs, brainstorming sessions, and retrospective meetings to ensure alignment and stimulate feedback-driven improvements.
• Interface with various department heads, ensuring IT initiatives resonate with their objectives, challenges, and operational demands.
• Translate business requirements into technological solutions, bridging any communication gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Cultivate robust relationships with key technology vendors, ensuring we leverage the best of their offerings, stay updated on product roadmaps, and negotiate favorable terms.
• Oversee vendor performance, ensuring SLAs are consistently met and exploring opportunities for further collaboration or optimization.
• Develop a comprehensive dashboard to track key IT metrics, system health indicators, and performance benchmarks.
• Maintain rigorous documentation standards, ensuring every configuration, policy change, and infrastructure blueprint is well-documented and accessible.
  
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• 7 years hands-on experience in the areas of archiecting, designing, and managing enterprise systems
• A visionary leader with the ability to inspire, motivate, and drive results.
• Exceptional analytical, troubleshooting, and decision-making skills.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to present complex security topics to a varied audience.
• Physical and Environmental Requirements:
• Ability to work on a computer for extended periods.
• May require after-hours support and occasional travel.
  
  
  

Skills

azure, Microsoft365

Top Skills Details

azure,Microsoft365

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Candidate can work remotely but if willing to travel to SC occasionally is a bonus.

Experience Level

Expert Level

About TEKsystems

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.