Director of Platform Engineering

Prestigious Fortune 500 Firm is  seeking a highly skilled, motivated and knowledgeable Sr. Manager/IT Director of Platform Engineering to manage Windows, UNIX, iSeries, Storage, Email, Middleware, Virtualization, back up services and the infrastructure team. Must have 10+ years of management, infrastructure engineering, not just operations support, true engineering over Unix, AIX, Linux, Windows, iSeries, etc. Must come from an extremely large environment (2000+ server environment). Must know Middleware and cloud, both private and public, no outsourced technologies. Looking for a high energy individual a strong leadership personality.

Responsibilities:

• Directly manage a 2000+ Server global enterprise infrastructure.
• At least 2 datacenters
• Mix of unix, windows, iseries (optional)
• Not an outsource arrangement
• Directly responsible for engineering team and tier 3/4 support
• Provide engineering and architecture leadership and administrative management oversight for the Core Infrastructure Team.
• Team size (30 - 80) [interested in engineers; not operational role]
• Responsible for providing strategic and tactical leadership for ongoing projects.  -foundational projects [availability 4 9's, scalability, performance, security]

o    virtualization [server, desktop, app]
o    monitoring and measuring key infrastructure components and metrics
o    rationalization
o    remote access
o    mobility
o    private cloud
o    public cloud
o    data center migration

• Develop, manage and mentor engineering staff - Hire/Fire
• Provide the technical leadership and strategic vision and planning for all core operating systems and platform technologies for a large enterprise data services.
• Develop and administer annual operating and capital budgets $20+ M
• Analyze operational methods, integration and monitoring tools and support processes in order to maintain and improve efficiency and stability.

o    Remedy
o    HP
o    BMC

• Develop, test, and update disaster recovery technologies to support the disaster recovery plan for all the data center complexes. 2 datacenters; Austin and houston

Required:

• 12+ years of experience managing Infrastructure Engineering, Architectural, Operational and project teams.
• 3+ years of hands on experience as a Sr. Manager/Director of technical professionals and projects within a large enterprise environment.
• Proven professional in depth technical knowledge of modern data center technologies. 
• Currently in a role managing Engineering/Architecture in the following technical disciplines:
  o    E-Mail - MS/Exchange 25,000 mailboxes, blackberry, ipad, good technology, active sync
  o    OS - AIX, Linux, Windows 2003/08 (50/50 blended OS environment)
  o    Middleware Applications - WebSphere, tomcat, jboss, WebLogic
  o    Web server - Apache, IIS
  o    IBM iSeries OS
  o    Virtualization - vmware, Citrix
  o    Storage - emc, hitachi, netapp, brocade, Veritas
  o    Lync, AD, DHCP, DNS
  o    Network (WAN) and Telecommunications (preferred)
  o    DBA (preferred)
  o    Hardware: HP, DELL, IBM
  o    Datawarehousing (preferred)
  o    Clustering technology (Veritas, redhat)
  o    Emerging Service Oriented Architecture technologies
  o    Replication - SRDF, Truecopy, datagaurd, goldengate, Veritas vvr
  o    Policies best practices and procedures - ITIL, Corbit
• Bachelors Degree preferred
• Lots of passion, energetic, very driven, self starter, CAN DELIVER, result oriented
• Comfortable architecting, leading engineering meetings, signoff on engineering projects.
• Capacity and performance architect experience
• Transactional throughput and latency
• Coming from an environment where per second/min infrastructure downtime costs huge financial penalties.