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The Job

This position will effectively manage a local team, high-pressure decisions, interact with IT groups and communicate with senior management. The position will also manage a technical staff that performs a wide range of general and specialized critical infrastructure duties including preventative maintenance, retrofits, software and hardware upgrades, and emergency repairs. The role ensures technical and operational evaluations of equipment supporting a highly available data center environment.
Additionally, this position develops the overall facility's annual budget and provides cost analysis for retrofits and/or upgrades consistent with annual operational and capital expenditures.

Requirements:

• At least 10 years’ experience in IT Infrastructure
• Extensive knowledge of protocols, standards, and technologies used in different IT Infrastructure stack models (On-prem, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
• Advanced skills and experience in VMware products and solutions (ESXi, vCenter, SRM, vSphere Replication, vSAN, NSX-T, vRealize Suite)
• Extensive experience in designing, implementing, managing and maintaining enterprise class servers, storage, networks and security
• Leading and managing Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery
• Thorough knowledge and experience with Windows and Linux server administration
• Backup/Recovery solutions (Veeam, Commvault or equivalent)
• Good knowledge of VoiP systems
• Conversant with Power Shell scripting
• Understanding of ITIL practices
• Monitoring systems
• Experience working in a team-oriented and collaborative environment
• Team management and mentoring
• Azure / AWS beneficial

Skills:

• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Self-disciplined and self-motivated
• Ability to learn quickly and share knowledge with others
• Ability to multitask on a daily basis
• Must be able to work and perform under pressure
• Attention to detail, accurate and analytical
• Good reporting and documentation skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Leadership and people skills

Qualifications:

• Cisco networking / VoiP / security certification beneficial
• Fortinet NSE certification beneficial
• VMWare certification beneficial
• Microsoft certification beneficial

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The Job

• This role will be part of an agile development environment, creating enterprise-grade software systems, and advancing our technology strategy.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team
• Collaborate with other architects, software developers, business analysts to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain web and desktop-based business applications
• Assist in the estimations of stories and delivery plans
• Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards
•  Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code
• Develop, refine, and tune integrations between applications
• Analyze and resolve technical and application issues
• Assess opportunities for technology, infrastructure, application, and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties
• Adhere to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on-time and on-budget
• Research and evaluate a variety of software products
• Maintains expertise and champions a set of core technologies
• Guide team development efforts towards successful project delivery

Core Competency Requirements

• Proficient with Microsoft .NET 4.7+ /.Net Core development using C#
• Proficient in Web technologies such as Angular
• In-depth knowledge and experience with core Microsoft .Net technologies such as WCF, WPF, WF, LINQ, and EF
• Extensive experience designing and developing enterprise-grade software
• Experience with source control management systems and continuous integration/deployment environments
• Experience with automated testing
• Experience with agile development methodologies including Kanban and Scrum
• Experience with multi-threading and concurrency
• Experience with debugging, performance profiling, and optimization
• Comprehensive understanding of object-oriented and service-oriented application development techniques and theories
• Internally motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment
• Strong communication skills with both internal team members and external business stakeholders
• Strong initiative to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes
• Experience with database development including relational database design, SQL, and ORM technologies