IT Engineering Manager (MarTech)
Austin, TX - USA
Job Summary
The IT Engineering Manager is responsible for leading the infrastructure engineering team in supporting and evolving the Direct Market Technology platform environment. This position blends technical leadership personnel management and heavy hands-on system engineering to ensure maximum uptime optimal infrastructure planning and successful execution of complex technology migrations.
The manager aligns business and technical requirements to develop architectural design specifications across hybrid environments spanning bare-metal servers collocations and cloud architectures. As a working manager you will be expected to actively build configure and troubleshoot alongside your team while guiding its strategic direction.
Responsibilities:
- Manage a team of direct reports within the IT Engineering division including establishing yearly performance goals delivering performance reviews and guiding professional growth.
- Collaborate with executive leadership on datacenter lifecycles contract renewals power footprint negotiation and capacity expansions.
- Oversee and prioritize technical project execution including infrastructure upgrades platform refreshes and legacy environment decommissionings.
- Establish goals and priorities for staff/area of responsibility consistent with departmental objectives.
- Ensure deliverables are on target with goals make modifications and adapt to organizational goals or direction changes.
- May be responsible for team formations and associated assignments to accomplish work.
- Align processes with department goals.
- Operate within a pre-established budget.
- Control costs by managing internal resources and containing expenses.
- Have input into future budget recommendations with senior management.
- Develop processes for the production of management reports statistics performance measures etc.
- Establish an environment where staff learns to be self-sufficient competent and challenged.
- Coach and monitor staff in continuous performance improvement and development.
Qualifications :
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a closely related engineering discipline or equivalent professional work experience.
- Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in infrastructure engineering or cloud operations with a proven track record of supervising technical staff or complex cross-datacenter infrastructure roadmaps.
- Must demonstrate recent proven experience heavily balancing daily management duties with direct hands-on technical execution.
- Must have prior formal experience as a fully hands-on engineering manager team lead or senior technical authority. You will be expected to actively build configure and troubleshoot alongside your team while supervising direct reports approving operational budgets and evaluating engineering goals.
- Extensive hands-on experience engineering maintaining and actively configuring Ubuntu environments Puppet automation platforms and bare-metal orchestration tools (MAAS)
- Demonstrated hands-on background executing datacenter footprint migrations handling hardware procurement and directly engineering/managing virtualization boundaries (including OpenStack LXD KVM and ESXi lifecycles).
- Strong hands-on knowledge of Active Directory management enterprise certificate enrollment processes identity tooling and maintaining critical trust layers across corporate domain controllers.
- Deep hands-on familiarity with the intricacies of CEPH architecture and administration for long-term persistent storage. Technical proficiency evaluating planning and actively managing physical/SAN storage equipment such as PureStorage or enterprise S3-compatible targets.
- Hands-on experience or familiarity with MicroCloud deployment/management frameworks.
- Must be able to organize/prioritize existing resources and incorporate new information as needed to implement the most effective solutions.
- Able to apply excellent business acumen and collaborative skills when resolving problems.
- Requires excellent communication skills with the ability to state messages clearly by using language that is easy for others to understand.
Additional Information :
RRDs current salary range for this role is $107000 to $171200 / year. The salary range may be adjusted based on the applicable geographic location of the hired employee and the range may change in the future. At RRD it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions may vary based upon but not limited to education skills experience proficiency performance shift and location. Depending on the role in addition to base salary the total compensation package may also include participation in a bonus commission or incentive program. RRDs benefit offerings include medical dental and vision coverage paid time off disability insurance 401(k) with company match life insurance and other voluntary supplemental insurance coverages plus parental leave adoption assistance tuition assistance and employer/partner discounts.
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All employment offers are contingent upon the successful completion of both a pre-employment background and drug screen.
RRD is an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability/veterans
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time
About Company
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