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Sr.Manager, Infrastructure

Company Sapient
Wage between $0.00 - $0.00 Annually
Location United States, Illinois, Chicago
Employment type Full Time
Education Not Specified
Year Experience 4 - 5 Years of Practical Experience
Travel None
Published on 10/30/2009
Description
About Sapient

Sapient, a business innovator helps clients achieve extraordinary results from their customer relationships, business operations and technology. Leveraging a unique approach, breakthrough thinking and disciplined execution, Sapient leads its industry in delivering the right business results on time and on budget. Sapient works with clients that are driven to make a difference, including BP, Essent Energy, Harrah’s Entertainment, Hilton International, Janus, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Nextel Communications, Sony Electronics, the U.S. Marine Corps, and Verizon. Founded in 1991, Sapient is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and operates across North America, Europe and India. More information about Sapient can be found at .

Job Summary

A Sr.Manager, Infrastructure will be overseeing the design of physical architecture, systems for monitoring, support processes for high volume and highly available ecommerce systems. The Sr.Manager Infrastructure will also work with hosting vendors and data centers to select a suitable one for a particular site and put in place processes to work with the vendor thru out the life cycle of the site.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Utilizes their knowledge of and experience with eCommerce solutions, physical and deployment architectures.
  • Utilizes their deep understanding of hardware, operating systems and infrastructure products to design physical architectures
  • Translates the client’s business requirements around availability, reliability and scale into efficient physical architecture
  • Challenges business design when appropriate.
  • Resolves complex technical issues.
  • Provides mentoring on best practices and processes.
  • Balances the considerations of what it takes to deploy an application.
  • Works with the client's IT organization to establish technology strategy at an infrastructure level
  • Sets technical direction and manages a team of people with Infrastructure skills
  • Can create criteria for evaluating Hosting vendors and can engage with them in selection process
  • Can manage the relationship with the Hosting vendor for various site related operations


    Job Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field required.
  • Minimum of 10-15 years of experience in infrastructure related field particularly with experience in Networking, OS Management, large scale server farm management and large ecommerce site operations with virtualization exposure
  • Prior experience in a consulting firm preferred.
  • Experience in setting up multiple sites for High availability and disaster recovery
  • Strong leadership and communication skills to effectively work with client accounts and multi-track Sapient teams.
  • Understanding of the project life cycle process to effectively be able to manage a sub-team through the complexities of the business solution.
  • Proven mentoring and coaching abilities to ensure effective growth plans of technology members of Sapient teams.
  • Knowledge of multiple technologies including (but not limited to): Redhat Linux, App servers like Websphere App Server, Networking tools, Monitoring tools, Storage technologies etc.,
  • Flexible to frequent overnight travel.

    *Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this role, which include hearing, speaking, typing and occasionally moving and/or lifting up to 15 pounds.df-tc

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