Executive Director Systems Engineering
Executive Director Systems Engineering
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$ 205000 - 258000
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Job Description
The Executive Director Systems Engineering is the POA Lead of the Cloud Data Center and will lead the architecture engineering and operational management of global infrastructure across onpremises and cloud environments within Sony Pictures Entertainments enterprise. This role focuses on delivering highly available scalable and secure server storage and backup solutions while aligning with the organizations strategic objectives.
This position oversees the endtoend design and delivery of infrastructure solutions leveraging emerging technologies to optimize service delivery and operational excellence. The Executive Director will collaborate closely with business leaders vendors and other IT teams to ensure alignment with organizational goals and drive innovation in infrastructure services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement strategic plans: Ensure technical direction for core infrastructure activities and align server storage and backup capabilities with the organizations growth objectives.
- Oversee global infrastructure operations: Evaluate and enhance operations ensure business continuity and manage disaster recovery plans.
- Advise on technology strategy: Provide guidance on systems integration and emerging technologies to support organizational goals.
- Lead the team: Direct the Server/Storage/Backup Infrastructure team implement technical standards and enhance productivity and efficiency.
- Manage financials: Oversee budget preparation procurement and vendor management for hardware and software solutions.
- Drive service excellence: Monitor service delivery performance ensure adherence to procedures and foster innovation.
- Collaborate and mentor: Work with crossfunctional teams provide staff development opportunities and maintain strong working relationships with business and IT stakeholders.
Requirements:
- Bachelor degree or equivalent experience preferred.
- 8 years of experience in the IT industry working with a major systems and vendors.
- 8 years of diverse IT experience with significant depth in Infrastructure management.
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience preferred.
- Manage partnerships as required to support key technologies and service delivery.
- Prior supervisory experience a must.
- Project Management experiences a plus.
- Outstanding communication organization time management interpersonal and management skills.
- Excellent problem identification analysis and solving skills.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Entertainment (Media Film or TV) or a related industry experience is preferred
- Deep understanding of cloud platforms (AWS Azure Google Cloud) and onpremises solutions.
- Proficiency in storage technologies (SAN NAS) backup solutions (Veeam CommVault) and server infrastructure (Linux UNIX Windows).
- Knowledge of automation tools (Ansible Terraform) and monitoring systems (Splunk Nagios).
- Familiarity with IT service management frameworks such as ITIL.
- Exceptional problemsolving and decisionmaking abilities especially under pressure.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present technical concepts to nontechnical stakeholders.
- Strategic thinker with a customerfocused mindset aligning IT services with organizational objectives.
- Understanding of emerging technologies and trends such as edge computing AI and machine learning as they relate to infrastructure services.
Sony Pictures Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability veteran status age sexual orientation gender identity or other protected characteristics.
SPE will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with applicable law.
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Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
