Cloud Manager

- Our Client is looking for a highly motivated, seasoned manager of infrastructure and data centre operations. The manager will lead OpenStack, Windows and Linux Systems Engineers as they design and deploy a secure, scalable, reliable and fast platform for both our infrastructure and application services.
- The successful candidate will have extensive experience managing infrastructure for secure, large scale, highly available services. It s a must the candidate has the technical and organizational vision, combined with flawless execution skills.
- Key skills and job requirements
- Build/deploy and support data centers and infrastructure services serving applications hosted in Client s facilities
- Build and maintain a world class team of OpenStack, Windows and Linux Systems Engineers.
- Collaborate with PaaS and SaaS teams, Security team and Project Management Team.
- Manage vendor relationship, negotiations, budget and escalations.
- 8+ years of experience in web/cloud operation, administration and/or engineering with organizational leadership skills.
- Continuous Integration/Delivery capabilities
- Thorough understanding of web infrastructure operations and delivery.
- Technical vision and understanding of SaaS/PaaS/IaaS including physical and virtual data centres, backbone and data centre networks, server hardware, operating systems (OpenStack, Linux and Windows), DNS, storage, load balancing, virtualization, security and related technologies.
- VMWare/ESX and/or OpenStack experience.
- Excellent verbal and written communication dealing with engineers, teams and customers.