Infrastructure Cloud and Datacenter Director
Universal Music Group
Kings Cross, UKThis was removed by the employer on 5/14/2020 12:51:00 PM PST
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Full Time Job
Description
Job title: Infrastructure Cloud and Datacenter Director
Responsible to: Senior Director Operations Implementation
Department: Technology Infrastructure
Location of work: 4 Pancras Square, Kings Cross
The A Side: A Day in The Life
The Director of Infrastructure will work closely with Technology executive staff decision makers in other departments in order to identify, recommend, develop, implement, and support cost-effective compute and storage solutions for all aspects of the global organization. He/she will provide tower leadership in conjunction with the architecture and implementation functions.
The B Side: Skills & Experience
Be Technical
• Becomes the UMG EMEA Tower lead for the IT domain(s) of Platforms
• Defines, maintains and oversees UMG’s strategy for the specified domain(s)
• Defines, develops, documents and maintains standards, best practices, and deployment frameworks
• Promotes the use of the defined IT standards within UMG business units to both technical and non-technical customers.
• Engages with project teams to develop and agree technical infrastructure solutions for project deployments
• Provides IT Domain thought leadership and guidance to other members of the Technology teams
• Lead major infrastructure initiatives and projects regarding cloud/datacenter landscape
• Manage technical project review meetings. Ensure project technical designs meet UMG’s operational requirements and are in compliance with UMG infrastructure and security standards
Be Financial
• Create and manage annual budget for UMG IT Infrastructure (multiple public clouds and multiple hosting providers (data centers)
Be Organised
• Oversee vendors work efforts on implementations
• Other tasks as deemed necessary or appropriate
Personal Specification
Necessary
• Proven ability to deliver key objectives within schedule and budget
• Strong working knowledge and certification of at least one public cloud provider AWS, Azure and Google
• Strong Infrastructure background
• Able to produce high-quality documentation, designs, presentations and plans, strategic roadmaps
• Solid understanding/knowledge of implementation and architectural dependencies in globally distributed, redundant, HA and DR enabled configurations, backup/recovery technology
• Solid working knowledge of hardware (SAN's and servers, FC switches, iSCSI, backup appliances and at least two or more vendors (HP, Dell, IBM, Cisco etc)
• Strong knowledge of deploying and migrating solutions to cloud, VMWare 5.5 , Windows Server, MS SQL, IIS, Linux in clustered, HA, single/multi-tenanted and globally distributed deployments, RDBMS, PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, DBaaS, etc
• Experience of designing solutions and services, multi-tenanted web applications of scale, exposure to enterprise automation technologies and practices
• Experience managing infrastructure in hosted and cloud environments, especially transition to cloud
• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle
• Work experience with information and application security concepts, mechanisms, and tools
• Large-scale distributed systems architecture
• System performance tuning
• Strong leadership skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to conduct and direct research into IT issues and products as required
• Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language
• Highly self-motivated and self-directed
• Keen attention to detail
• Proven analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Exceptional customer service orientation
• Record of progressive management experience culminating at the Director Level
• Strong track record in delivering IT infrastructure and cloud projects with multiple stakeholders and delivery teams
Desirable
• AWS, GCP and Linux/ MCSE certifications
Bonus Tracks: Your Benefits
• Group Personal Pension Scheme (between 3% and 9%)
• Private Medical Insurance
• 25 paid days of annual leave
• Interest Free Season Ticket Loan
• Holiday Purchase scheme
• Dental and Travel Insurance options
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Salary Sacrifice Cars
• Subsidised Gym Membership
• Employee Discounts (Reward Gateway)
Just So You Know…
The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However, the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholder's specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore, the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent, definitive and exhaustive statement.