CAREER OPPORTUNITY #: 7701

POSITION TITLE: MANAGER, COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE

DEPARTMENT: TECHNOLOGY SERVICES GROUP

POSITION SPECIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Science or related field; or equivalent work experience required
• Management or supervisory experience required.
• Responsible for planning and directing activities, and allocating and delegating work to staff.
• Handle all aspects of personnel management including work assignments, performance reviews, salary administration, issue resolution and mentoring.
• Responsible for working collaboratively across BISD groups and Federated business areas to actively participate in leading organizational priorities.
• Responsible for maintaining a high-level understanding of those technologies and disciplines within their direct reports’ purview, and across the Enterprise.
• Technology working experience with the following:
• Windows Server and Linux Operating system experience
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator or equivalent preferred
• Microsoft Operations Manager, Nagios, Splunk, or similar monitoring product required
• Virtualization, including VMware, KVM, or Xen preferred
• LDAP, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Routing and Routed Protocols, and NFS preferred
• Familiarity working with Hyper-Converged Infrastructure such as Nutanix preferred.
• Familiarity with the CommVault Backup and Recovery or other industry standard backup and recovery products preferred
• Experience with NFS File Storage devices preferred
• Knowledge of storage virtualization including thin provisioning and data de-duplication preferred

MAJOR DUTIES:

• The role encompasses information systems planning, installation, and maintenance, including hardware and software upgrades.
• Provide technical leadership to develop business plans and/or lead solutions to complex technical problems across the Enterprise including database, network, storage, in house and third party developed applications.
• Conduct problem analysis to improve TSG-CI department efficiencies and share best practices across BISD
• Conduct high level technical and operational trending analysis to direct staff to conduct continuous improvement across computing Infrastructure systems and applications.
• Lead the development of technical action plans to correct issues
• Provide leadership for system administration functions of server administrators, and in support of network, storage and       database administrators, related business areas and application teams
• Determine technical thresholds for problem notification to avoid business impact and resolve issues proactively.
• Challenge others to develop as leaders while serving as role model and mentor. Guide direct reports with career development proactively providing feedback and conducting annual performance evaluations.
• Manage critical operational duties such as on-call coverage and assignments.
• Ensure that support model is properly designed and in place prior to production turnover of the standard SDLC process.
• Maintain knowledge of standard industry architecture practices and patterns.
• Work collaboratively with peer managers to support subject matter expert application and technical mentoring across the BISD organization.
• May participate on teams or task forces related to improvement or strategic initiatives.

HOURS/LOCATION:

• 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 pm (overtime/off hours work as required)
• Warrendale location - Warrendale, PA 15086

EXPLANATORY COMMENTS:

• Demonstrate a cooperative attitude and effective interpersonal skills with employees, clients, coworkers and vendors
• Demonstrate decision making, problem solving and analytical skills with particular attention given to detail and accuracy
• Strong oral and written communication skills

Federated Investors, Inc. offers a competitive salary and benefits package along with a professional environment.

For consideration, go to

https://careers.federatedinvestors.com/psp/PSEXT/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_APP_SCHJOB.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=11&JobOpeningId=7701&PostingSeq=1

Only those candidates in whom we have an interest will be contacted.

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