Infrastructure Engineering Director - $190k plus bonus

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Job description

Rapidly expanding Fortune 100 company is seeking a technical director to direct all activities of seven engineers focused on their storage and Backup environment. Total compensation will range between $200k and $210k. They contribute 8.2% of total gross (base and bonus) annually into 401K.

Candidate needs to be able to go into office two days a week and be local to Dallas-Fort Worth. Unfortunately, no relocation nor sponsorship.

Mandatory skills: 5+ years in managing infrastructure team, AWS cloud experience, experience in automation.

Formal Job Description and Position Overview:

Our rapidly evolving IT department is in search of an Infrastructure Engineering Manager with excellent time management skills and a consistent track record of setting and meeting results-oriented goals! We're looking for a candidate with considerable managerial experience who can recruit new talent, allocate both human and material resources efficiently, communicate with our business partners and coordinate with other departments on time-sensitive projects.

Our Impact:

We assure Stability, Availability and Reliability for 1000's of servers to support a wide range of applications in a hybrid Cloud environment

We strive to prevent service impacts in a multifaceted and constantly evolving ecosystem, assure rapid recoverability from any impacts to business and services

We strategize and transform IT with Automation and Process Engineering

Your Impact:

The Infrastructure Engineering Director will be an integral part of the IT Infrastructure Engineering Team and will be expected to:

Develop teams of OS Engineers to think and execute proactively to ensure the stability and security of the platform

Identify, Influence and Implement technology, process and skill changes to modernize our Infrastructure

Collaborate with IT and Business Senior leadership to assure visible communication, risk reduction and accountability for the performance of the team

Qualifications:

College Degree or equivalent experience of 8-10 years

5+ years of experience managing as skilled team of OS Engineers

Ability to drive accountability for team performance and continued improvement of execution

Communicates well within the team to set clear goals and effectively relay the status and accomplishments to management

Must not only lead current technical trends, but also anticipate the team's growth in our future state technologies

An eye for automating common processes

AWS experience a plus

Keys to Success in this Role:

Communicates and influences very effectively.

Demonstrates deep job specific knowledge and best practices to drive effective change and transform how work is performed.

Experienced at building strong teams, leads and performers, elevates team members via mentoring and knowledge sharing. Highly effective team leader. Top influencer for other IT and business partners.

Significant contributions to strategy and objectives. Knowledge leadership in all areas of expertise for areas of responsibility. Thinks beyond individual sphere.