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JOB TITLE: Director, Storage Technologies
REPORTS TO: Vice President, Enterprise Services
OVERVIEW:
This position is immediately available due to the growth of the storage organization. This position will manage a team of 20 associates dedicated to designing, implementing, operating and maintaining the storage environment. This includes all domestic facilities of the organization.
The ideal candidate will have a successful track record and appreciation for the challenge of managing a large and growing environment through a difficult transition of technology. The ideal candidate will also prefer an environment that is low on politics, but high on accountability. This position is highly visible and has a direct impact on the overall organization. An individual who excels in this position will have an excellent opportunity for internal development and promotion in the future.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Provide overall leadership to a team of 20 (including 2 managers) responsible for enterprise initiatives including backup, archiving, de-duplication and storage systems.
• Manage an overall budget of $10MM, and apply expertise to achieve financial and operational objectives
• Performs all aspects of normal personnel functions including staffing, development, discipline, compensation, performance evaluations and coaching.
• Responsible for budget forecasting and monitoring expenditures within budgetary limits to ensure sound fiscal control.
• Contributes to functional strategy development
TRAITS / MANAGEMENT STYLE:
• Must have strong drive to excel in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment that recognizes and rewards innovative thinking, responsible risk taking and the achievement of operational excellence.
• Must work well with minimal supervision to provide resolution and direction on short-term and long-term initiatives
• Must be able to make decisions, often difficult and/or unpopular, that support the organizational strategy
• Must be a strong influencer and business case builder who can gather consensus for critical initiatives. Develop broad influence through a robust set of internal/external relationships across the organization; promote win-win outcomes within, among and across teams, using the diverse perspectives of others to achieve results
• Must be able to mentor, train, and develop staff as well as create challenging roles and responsibilities to build organization capabilities and fill capability gaps
• Must be able to identify and initiate efforts to achieve objectives as well as teach others to accept accountability for meeting and stretching to exceed results in a timely and cost effective manner
• Must be able to anticipate internal/external business issues and construct meaningful strategies to address future scenarios.
• Must develop relationships with key internal/external customers to identify emerging needs and business challenges.
• Must be able to influence customer and/or organizational leadership through effective listening and communication to accomplish operational objectives.
Qualifications / Background
• Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science, Business, or a related field preferred. Equivalent work experience will be considered.
• 5 to 10 years of direct staff supervision responsibility with a proven track record of customer satisfaction and delivery of results.
• Must have extensive knowledge of infrastructure - specifically storage systems including SAN fabric (Brocade switches, fabric design), SAN Volume Controllers, DS8000 and DS5000 storage systems, Avamar, Onaro, Netapps VTL, and Symantec Netbackup technologies.
• Working knowledge of server configuration, network technologies, databases, and application design.
• Requires experience managing multiple teams in excess of 20 members in a 24x7 production environment.
• Experience managing budgets with accountability for $10MM or more in assets.
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