IT Director/Operations Manager (North Austin, TX)
IT Director/Operations Manager
North Austin, TX
IT Director/Operations Manager position is available with the Site Engineering Center of a very successful startup, receiving funding from two major brand-name companies. The ideal candidate for this position is motivated by the initiative to find solutions and solve complex problems in a commerce-related environment. This is a technical leadership role for an highly practiced individual that can clearly communicate and lead a team of Engineers in high velocity and stressful situations.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Technical Leader:
- advanced script, tools, automation, improvements, restoration
- Prevent/Solve site incidents with unstable systems and components
- Work independently and with Team Members (Architecture, Engineering, and Operations)
- Drive restoration issues
- Build/Manage/Mentor cross-functional (shift model) Engineer Teams
- Build/Test tools and features
- Windows Systems Administration
- Analyze/Design
REQUIREMENTS
- Linux/UNIX Environment:
- operating system internals
- file system structures
- machine architectures
- Hands On expertise:
- core/large technologies
- distributed systems (cloud computing, web services, multi-tier serving architectures)
- Incident/Crisis Management
- Automation/DevOps
- Windows Systems Admin
- High Transaction Customer Facing Systems
- Night/Day Availability
- Networking, Unix, Windows, VMWare, Storage Technologies, Load balancers, Mail, DNS, TCP/IP and SAN
- (Oracle preferred), Apache, HTTP/HTML, XML and Java (preferred)
- Experience building:
- Automated Infrastructure
- Site-reliability engineering/network operations centers (big plus!)
- Open Source Software (preferred)