Assistant Vice President or Vice President Infrastructure
Assistant Vice President or Vice President Infrastructure
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Job Description
Whittier Trust is the oldest privately owned multifamily office headquartered on the West Coast providing exceptional client service and highly customized investment solutions for highnetworth individuals and their families.
Our dedicated professionals work with clients and their families to deliver a broad array of services including investment management fiduciary philanthropic and family office. Our founding familys centurylong history of entrepreneurship continues to guide our activities for clients today. Entrusted with private family assets our teams employ a consulting approach to tailor solutions for complex family situations.
Whittier Trust attracts professionals who have a desire to grow while building their skills in the service to our clients. Our organization is flat nimble and uniquely attuned to the needs and desires of both todays entrepreneurs as well as legacy family members who may be several generations removed from the wealth creators. Our corporate culture is one of clientfocus collaboration performance and accountability family orientation and longterm career satisfaction. Employee turnover is low because of a high level of engagement and career fulfillment.
The position offers a competitive compensation package including base salary performance bonus equity consideration excellent medical and retirement plans.
Position Summary
The Vice President Infrastructure will provide implementation 24/7 operational support and continuous improvement of Infrastructure systems including but not limited to network servers data center SaaS and IaaS. The successful candidate will be technically versed passionate about customer service and act as the main point of contact for Infrastructure systems. This position will start as an individual contributor role and reports to the Chief Information Officer.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the administration maintenance monitoring and upgrade of Infrastructure systems ensuring the highest levels of system availability capacity and security
- Analyze implement administer and support network servers databases data center and IaaS
- Collaborate with technical teams business stakeholders and thirdparty partners to optimize and Infrastructure systems to support business needs
- Responsible for Infrastructure systems related product licensing/subscriptions ensuring appropriate coverage with a focus on cost containment
- Align work with priorities and goals to the organization department and industry regulations
- Ability to manage multiple infrastructure projects and provide a clear articulation of direction and expectations of delivery (Quality Scope Time)
- Coordinate roles and tasks of team members to achieve goals
- Create and maintain standard operating procedures policies SLAs communications and knowledge base
- Selfmotivated with the ability to exercise independent judgment with minimal direction from supervisor
- Strong leadership and organizational skills with the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities and assignments
- Excellent verbal written and presentation skills; in particular demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions
- Good understanding of process orientation understanding of project management methodologies and best practices
- Stay up to date on regulatory concerns and changing IT and information security trends. Propose and implement changes to ensure environment is secure
- Ability to be part of a rotating oncall 24x7x365 schedule
Qualifications
- Supportive of moving from onpremise to the cloud with the goal of 100 applications in the cloud
- Demonstrated experience with Microsoft 365 and Azure
- Knowledge of Infrastructure management in a complex environment with working knowledge of architecture systems administration network administration and IaaS administration
- Proven management of multiple projects and managing vendor relationships including managed service providers and VARs
- Ability to drive initiatives and lead meetings in subject matter expertise areas
- Ability to stay current on technology trends and quickly learn new technologies
- Ability to meet deadlines prioritize appropriately cope well with change and maintain composure under high pressure situations
- Excellent interpersonal written and verbal communication skills including ability to communicate with staff and management of any level
- Passion for cybersecurity and ensuring security is part of every initiative
- Knowledge of common security/privacy frameworks; CIS NYCRR 500 CSF PCI NIST CCPA/CPRA etc. and the concept of SASE
Preferred Qualifications and Certifications
- Experience with successfully moving from onpremise to the cloud
- Experience with Fortinet suite of products including switches firewalls access points and network access control
- Experience with Fortinet SDWAN VPN or ZTNA client
- Experience rolling out M365 endpoint features such as Intune Autopilot and Windows Hello for Business for example
- Experience securing M365 and Azure environments including implementing and/or supporting Microsoft Defender suite
- Managing projects and documentation in Jira and Confluence respectively
- Certifications in M365 and Azure CISSP or CISM
Education Experience and Certifications
- Bachelors degree in computer science Information Technology Engineering or related discipline
- 10 years of experience with IT Infrastructure systems
- 8 years of experience with server operation systems; Windows Server Linux
- 8 years of experience with virtualization systems; VMware HyperV
- 8 years of experience with network firewalls access points
- 5 years with SNMP and agentbased monitoring tools
- 5 years of experience with disaster recovery and IT general controls
- 5 years with Microsoft 365 and Azure
- 3 years of experience with Fortinet switches firewalls and access points
- 2 years of experience implementing SDWAN
- Infrastructure related certification(s); Cisco Microsoft VMware CompTIA etc.
- Experience in Finance industry preferred
- Recent experience in midmarket firms of over 200 employees
COMPENSATION Commensurate with experience and title
Base salary range
AVP: $115000 $150000 annually
VP: $140 $180000 annually
Salary may vary depending on jobrelated factors including but not limited to skills and experience. Fulltime employees may be eligible for a comprehensive benefits package that includes: medical dental and vision coverage 401(k) life insurance paid time off and a Wellness Program. Annual bonus incentive pay and/or equity may also apply depending upon the role.
Required Experience:
Chief
Employment Type
Full-Time
