Senior Manager IT Support - Facilities Engineering

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Job Summary:

The Senior Manager IT Support serves as the technical leader for the data center's critical infrastructure, ensuring the safe, reliable, and continuous operation of all electrical, mechanical, HVAC, plumbing, fire/life safety, and building automation systems supporting a 247 mission-critical environment. This role is responsible for maximizing uptime, maintaining infrastructure reliability, minimizing operational risk, leading engineering operations, and emergency response, and ensuring regulatory compliance through preventive maintenance, strategic planning, and continuous improvement. The Senior Manager provides technical leadership to the onsite engineering team while overseeing critical infrastructure, vendor performance, commissioning, asset lifecycle management, and operational excellence.

This Sr. Manager level employee is primarily responsible for managing the service delivery process and outcomes for product support, developing the process and procedures for the setup of computer systems, and managing relationships with third party hardware and/or software vendors.


Essential Responsibilities:
  • Manages designated units by translating business plans into tactical action items; communicating goals and objectives; ensuring all policies and procedures are followed; overseeing the completion of work assignments; assuming responsibility for decision making; aligning team efforts; building accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; incorporating resources, costs, and forecasts into unit plans; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; partnering with key stakeholders and business leaders to ensure products and/or services meet requirements and expectations while aligning with departmental strategies; and influencing units to operate in alignment with business objectives.
  • Pursues professional growth and provides developmental opportunities for others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; hiring, training, and developing talent for growth opportunities; delegating tasks and decisions; fostering open dialogue amongst departments; strategically evaluating talent for succession planning; setting performance management guidelines and expectations across units; and working closely with employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement.
  • Manages recurring and escalated problems.
  • Manages troubleshooting efforts to identify and rectify problems.
  • Manages efforts to analyze and prioritize incoming requests and alerts.
  • Manages the service delivery process and outcomes for first, second, and third level support for products and applications by taking accountability for resolution of systems issues.
  • Follows and manages the development of standard operating procedures.
  • Reviews and approves resolution proposal to prevent issue recurrence.
  • Defines and manages key performance indicators (e.g., performance, availability, capacity)
  • Promotes and ensures compliance in the use of a knowledge repository for technical support.
  • Defines and manages procedures for incident escalation.
  • Manages execution of disaster recovery, and business continuity processes and events.
  • Manages after hours on call support.
  • Manages the process for tracking and documentation by reviewing and updating documents, as appropriate.
  • Manages analysis of incident data and trends to help prioritize efforts to improve system availability and performance.
  • Reviews and approves departmental and enterprise changes to the production environment, according to established change control processes.
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