About the role
Responsibilities:
- Infrastructure Strategy: Develop and implement the organisation's IT infrastructure strategy and roadmap.
- Align infrastructure initiatives with overall business objectives.
- Team Leadership: Lead and manage a team of IT professionals, providing guidance, mentorship, and performance evaluations.
- Foster a collaborative and high-performance work culture.
- Network Management: Oversee the design, implementation, and management of the organisation's network infrastructure.
- Ensure high availability, reliability, and security of network services.
- Server and System Administration: Manage server infrastructure, including hardware, operating systems, and virtualisation platforms.
- Implement and maintain system configurations, backups, and disaster recovery plans.
- Cloud Services: Evaluate, implement, and manage cloud services and solutions (eg, AWS, Azure) to meet business needs.
- Ensure a seamless integration between on-premises and cloud environments.
- Security and Compliance: Implement and enforce security policies, protocols, and best practices.
- Monitor and address security vulnerabilities and compliance requirements.
- IT Operations: Oversee day-to-day IT operations, including help desk support, system monitoring, and incident response.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address IT-related challenges.
- Budget Management: Develop and manage the IT infrastructure budget.
- Optimise costs and resource utilisation.
- Vendor Management: Manage relationships with IT vendors and service providers.
- Negotiate contracts and service level agreements.
- Technology Evaluation: Stay informed about emerging technologies and trends.
- Evaluate and recommend new technologies to enhance IT infrastructure.
Requirements:
- Graduate -B Tech/ MCA/B Sc.
- Working experience in IT infrastructure for 15-20 years.
Skill set:
- Good analytical and tracking skills.
- Effective communication skills.
- Taking ownership and responsibility.