What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Manager, Network &Systems Engineering position at Ports America Shared Services, Inc.?
Description
Ports America is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; religion; national origin; sex (including pregnancy); sexual orientation; gender identity and/or expression; age; disability; genetic information, citizenship status; military service obligations or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
As a leader, you will set an example and establish a team culture that promotes proactive collaboration across IT and internal departments. The culture will be highly customer-focused, solutions-oriented, and results driven. Your key leadership responsibilities will include: setting goals and objectives for your internal team and third-party resources and evaluating their performance and achievements; participate in negotiating favorable prices with vendors for hardware, software, and services; collaborating with other departments on disaster recovery and business continuity strategies and solutions; and building strong relationships with the business and IT users to understand their network & Systems requirements and project expectations.
Essential Duties:
- Lead two teams consisting of network/server engineers and administrators to engineer, troubleshoot and support the Enterprise infrastructure.
- Coordinate with other departments (Corporate Applications, Engineering, and Terminal Technology Support) to ensure that network & systems requirements are fully understood and fulfilled.
- Oversee network & systems design and documentation standards, the change control process, and operational processes for the department.
- Assist in managing network & systems technology vendors and services providers.
- Monitor the performance of the network & sever environments
- Research and recommend service providers and products; evaluate emerging technologies and recommend future directions.
- Enhance the information security posture of the company's data by building and implementing improved processes, procedures, standards and tools.
- Work with IT and business operations to support our business continuity and disaster recovery processes and strategies
- Position is on-call 7x24 as a key escalation point within Enterprise Infrastructure
Physical Attributes:
- Must be able to lift up to 50lbs and work on their feet as required
- Must qualify for Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC)
- Ability and willingness to work flexible hours
- Ability to travel up to 20%
Minimum Requirements:
- 7 years of senior-level experience in the design, implementation and support of a complex enterprise network & systems infrastructure
- 3 years of experience in managing a team of Network and or Systems engineers and administrators
- 3 years experience working with Cisco route switch concepts and routing protocols, Palo alto firewall administration, modern and legacy Microsoft server OS's,
- 3 years vendor management experience
Preferred Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- Microsoft, Cisco/Meraki, Nutanix AHV, VMware, Barracuda, Palo Alto certifications
- Good working knowledge of and hands on experience with Cisco /Meraki technologies is essential.
- Good working knowledge of and hands on experience with Nutanix AHV, VMware, Barracuda load balancers, and Linux server administration
- Ability to analyze problems and solve them, creating solutions that are practical, cost effective, reliable and meet the needs of the business.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
Ports America is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; religion; national origin; sex (including pregnancy); sexual orientation; gender identity and/or expression; age; disability; genetic information, citizenship status; military service obligations or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
