Head Of Infrastructure at Momentum

Role Purpose

• The role will encompass looking after our traditional systems, distributed infrastructure, storage, backups & datacentre teams. You will be required to provide and maintain innovative solutions to meet stringent operational standards, continuously evaluate and evolve the services to meet the needs of the business and align the I&O Strategy.

Responsibilities and work outputs

• Lead the infrastructure discipline for Operations, Service & Project Delivery, Risk and Security, Financial management to achieve a world class infrastructure as a service provider.
• Develop and grow the Strategic roadmap for infrastructure and its modernisation into the future including cloud
• Lead the thinking on Infrastructure Architecture, including the evolution towards future infrastructure platforms to provide critical group services and review regularly
• Managed the Operational management teams to ensure client and service delivery objectives
• Project ownership of all infrastructure related projects aligned to the strategy
• Manage the Risk and security deliverables for the infrastructure disciplines covering Cyber Security, Governance, Compliance, Risk and audit requirements to achieve a low risk and secure infrastructure platform
• Manage the asset lifecycle of infrastructure platforms in the group including the Infrastructure Billing and allocation
• Build and continuously develop a strong multi-disciplined team
• Effective manage 3rd parties, vendor relationships and managed services providers and their respective agreements, contracts and lifecycle.

Competencies required

• Good industry knowledge of infrastructure and operations
• Good industry knowledge technology services and their service providers
• Sound knowledge of both IT and business processes including best practices
• Competent with current IT trends in practice (Cloud, DevOps, Automation, Agile Ops etc.)
• Strong Communication and relationship building skills including organizational executives etc.
• Strong influencer and mentorship ability
• Strong analytical and logical skills
• Critical thinking and Ability to make decisions
• Tried and tested conflict resolution skills
• The ability to work in a pressurized operational department
• Must have demonstrable experience relating to infrastructure services - service management, operations, project delivery, financial management, risk and security management and team management

Experience and Qualifications

• At least 8 - 10 year's experience in an Infrastructure Management Position
• Experience with the following technologies in an enterprise environment will advantageous (IBM, HPE, Pure Storage, VMWARE, RHEL or other Linux, Windows Server, UNIX and IBMi
• Previous experience in a services provider environment relating Infrastructure Services
• Good understanding and industry experience in the context of Infrastructure on (Governance, best practice frameworks, standard operating procedures, service management and continuity)
• Experience with Managed Service providers and Gartner Magic quadrant vendors such as IBM, HPE, and Dell etc.
• Must be well versed and understand technologies related to datacentre, backup, storage and fabric, compute, virtualization and operating systems
• Management development will be advantageous (MDP, MBA, Management Training etc.)
• Experience managing a team across multiple disciplines to across server environments encompassing Windows, Linux, AIX, AS400, Storage and Virtualisation, Backup and Recovery & Datacentres(advantageous)
• A B.Sc. degree (advantageous)

Location
The above-mentioned position is currently available in the Infrastructure and Operations department at our Group IT Operations division based at our office in Centurion