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About the Opportunity:
Life Fitness is seeking a hands-on Sr. Manager to lead a team of Server
and Workplace Engineers, responsible for managing Oracle and Microsoft
cloud environments, Microsoft 365 and licensing, on-premises hardware,
virtual servers, enterprise backups, and more. The ideal candidate will
be an engaged leader who actively contributes to daily tasks while also
driving tactical and strategic changes in response to evolving business
needs and emerging technologies. Additionally, they will also seamlessly
partner with Security personnel to ensure a security-first posture.
**this is a hybrid position based out of our Global HQ in Rosemont,
IL - M/F remote and T-Th are in-office collaboration days**
#LI-Hybrid
Key Responsibilities
- Lead team members through projects which include architecture,
security, infrastructure, and application assets, to design and
implement platforms and tools.
- Partner with other Life Fitness and partner teams to design,
educate, and implement automation solutions for server, network,
storage, middleware, database and security.
- Provide subject matter expertise within multi-functional /
multi-business unit project teams.
- Analyze current monitoring systems effectiveness and create action
plans to improve or expand visibility into the system or application
performance.
- Assume the role of lead technical architect in the design of new
operations and applications infrastructure.
- Design process constraints, controls, and documentation to ensure
team compliance of audit requirements and qualifications.
- Articulate the need for scalability and understand the importance of
improving quality through testing.
- Engage in vendor relationship management, as required in substantial
project efforts and Managed Services (ManS) engagements.
- Design capacity and performance management analysis.
- Author Disaster Recovery (DR) tests and portions of enterprise
business continuity plans.
- Perform as a project manager, leading temporary teams of diverse
skillsets.
- Develop and maintain Azure and OCI cloud billing and usage reporting
mechanisms.
Qualifications
Education & Experience:
- B.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent experience required.
- Microsoft Azure Administrator certification preferred.
- OCI Architect Certification preferred.
Job Knowledge/Experience Required:
- 4-5 years of experience defining and managing IT Operations.
- 4-5 years of direct supervisory experience, managing teams of
people.
- Experience in coaching, performance improvement, and talent
management.
- Experience in individual contributor career planning and
development; construct plans for team members and empowering them
for self-growth.
- 2-3 years architecting and managing enterprise cloud infrastructure
environments, such as Azure, AWS, and Oracle (OCI).
- Demonstrable experience working within defined security constraints
and integrating security standards into team culture.
Job Knowledge/Experience Preferred:
General understanding of web services
General understanding of database administration techniques and
technologies, specifically with MS SQL & Oracle.
Deep competency in virtualization, cloud infrastructure
technologies, and networking.
Intermediate skill in scripting with PowerShell.
Knowledge of Software Development Methodologies
Experience with API integrations
Skills & Competencies
Communication:
- \"Influencer\" level written and verbal communication skills.
- an effectively communicate technical information to a non-technical
audience.
- Be responsible for creating and articulating policy documents and
team process.
Problem Solving:
- Rigorous problem-solving capability, able to dissect a problem into
its component parts and identify the root-cause.
- Leadership techniques to lead individuals and teams to issue
resolution through probing questions and encouragement of
creativity.
- Possess a systematic approach to issue analysis and resolution.
- Can move seamlessly from a user-view of the system to the
transaction flows to the data level in order to understand and
trouble-shoot system issues.
- Work cross-functionally and think both critically and strategically.
- Creative in approach to combinations of skills and tools, in order
to provide automation solutions.
- The ability to handle multiple projects and deadlines
Additional Requirements:
Ability to travel up to 5
