Leadership Skills • Management of system, application and service lifecycles, including datacenter migration and consolidation • Accountable for complex technology projects with budgets of $1-10MM • Responsible for providing guidance to management for allocation of $10-20MM opex/capex budgets • Experienced implementing Agile (SAFe) Practices for infrastructure teams • Vendor relationship management and negotiation for hardware, software, and datacenters • Self-starter with the ability to work independently or as part of a team • Strong written and oral communication skills • A history of consistently delivering projects on-time • Strong technical leadership skills Technical Skills • Design and deployment of large distributed, scalable systems supporting mission-critical services (compute, virtualization, SAN & network) in both private and public cloud environments • Quick identification and resolution of complex cross-domain problems using various system, application and network tracing tools & techniques • Application, system, storage and network performance tuning • Development of system deployment blueprints as part of application on-boarding to ensure each solution supports architecture objectives (availability, scalability, performance & security) • Capacity planning, utilizing both COTS and homegrown performance monitoring and trending tools • Proficient with storage hardware including EMC VMAX, VNX, Celerra, Isilon, DataDomain, HPE 3Par, HDS HUS VM, Brocade Switches. Proficient with compute hardware including HPE, Cisco & Dell. Proficient with network hardware including Cisco and F5 • Architectural support for large database environments (Oracle, Vertica, MySQL, various NoSQL), including performance, replication, backup/recovery and troubleshooting • System and network security, with an emphasis on building systems with minimal exposure • Scripting (perl, sh, csh and sql) for development of tools to automate repetitive tasks