Director of System Operations

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This is regarding a job opportunity with one of our prestigious client which might be of interest to you. Currently, I am looking for people who match the below description.

POSITION: DIRECTOR OF SYSTEM OPERATIONS

LOCATION: SAN FRANCISCO, CA

YEARS OF EXP: 7 - 10

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Director of System Operations to oversee the group responsible for both production operations and corporate IT for the organization. The system operations team is primarily responsible for designing, building, managing, and maintaining highly scalable and highly reliable infrastructure to support all of the company's initiatives and goals.

This position reports into the VP of Engineering and will work closely with the entire company to ensure that IT needs are met and mission critical infrastructure is well designed, optimally scaled, and functioning according to the company's goals and commitments.

Job Responsibilities:

- Supervise the system operations team members
- Oversee production operations
- Oversee corporate IT
- Be a hands-on contributor, and set the tone by example
- Coach and mentor staff
- Provide technical expertise in 1-2 areas in the Desired Technical Proficiencies section below
- Provide technical feedback in the other areas
- Be a resource for knowledge on best practices related to security, performance, and disaster recovery. Promote best practices
- Identify improvements to underlying processes and procedures
- Implement those improvements
- Take part in on-call duty for 24/7/365 operations
- Maintain budget, vendor relationships, and procurement standards
- Manage projects to improve production operations and corporate IT
- Collaborate on architectural designs and decisions within the Technology group
- Do capacity planning for datacenter and IT resources
- Maintain the IT and operations project roadmap

Desired Skills & Experience:

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent. Masters a plus.
- 5+ years of experience in Network Operations and IT
- 3+ years supporting mission-critical IT/Ops infrastructure
- Previous experience managing a team of other IT professionals
- Strong communication skills
- Broad range of technical knowledge
- Passion for technology and gadgets

Desired Technical Proficiencies:

- Linux (guru level)
- Bash Scripting
- Puppet
- Java, ant, maven, PHP Tomcat, jboss, Apache
- MySQL, postgresql
- Iptables
- IPSEC and SSL VPNs
- Routing/Cisco
- LAN/WAN design
- Subversion or similar version control systems
- Live system upgrade and modification
- IT Security
- Windows in a corporate environment
- MacOS in a corporate environment