• Proven IT management experience.
• Demonstratable experience in direct people management.
• Significant proven mastery and experience in hands-on IT engineering technology role.
• Comprehensive experience with Azure AD a strong plus (AD Connect and Sync Services, Account Roles, Group Provisioning, etc.).
• Working knowledge and experience managing hybrid cloud environments (on-premises/off-premises/private & public clouds) - Azure experience a strong plus.
• Utilizes ISO best practices.
• Proven ability to deliver results under constraints of resources, time and budget. Ability to drive process improvements.
• Comprehensive experience with server and system management, virtualization, VPN, security, backups, and system recovery showing clear mastery in these areas.
• Listening, drawing out key concepts, and articulating advanced technical and non-technical ideas with ease (both written and oral formats) to customers, peers, and management at several levels and across the organization with minimal oversight.
• Experience in selecting and managing outside vendors who serve outsourced roles in the department.
• Experience with remote management of servers, server consolidation, migration of legacy Window server environments, deployment of new servers in Azure/Datacenter, system, and resource optimization.
• Self-motivated individual with ambitions for growth.
• Proven leader who works well in a multi-faceted, diverse team.
• Strong interpersonal, customer relationship/partnership, and influential skills to facilitate the implementation of efficient business processes.
• Strong troubleshooting skills.
• Good attention to detail.
Credentials and Experience:
• Bachelor’s Degree Preferred - field of study: Computer Science or Information Technology
• Significant proficiency in a technical support role of systems, and data center operations with at least one major area of focus or experience with network administration (LAN/WAN), virtualization, storage and backup (SAN, NAS) administration, or server platform (Windows, Linux, Unix) administration.