IT Infrastucture Manager

Ourclient, a private industry corporation, seeks a hands-on,management-level professional for their technology center headquarteredin Washington, DC.The role is project oriented... with the ability to plan, research andpotentially deploy network infrastructures. There will be considerablevendor management responsibilities as well. 

 

*Candidates must have hands on experience supporting Cisco routing/switching and a broad based Windows background.

 

Description: 

 

People Management/Team development 

• Supervise small staff in managing day-to-day tasks and projects deliverables 

• Provide goal setting and mentoring of direct support engineers 

• Work to develop strong ties between Business Systems and global operation support teams 

 

Infrastructure and Security Research 

• Deployment and support of new infrastructure standards (ex. switches, FW, routers) 

• Perform ongoing technology evaluation and business applicability assessment 

 

Operations Support 

• Provide end resolution of all escalated cases from Operations support teams 

• Proxy issues requiring escalation to manufacture intervention for final resolution 

 

Vendor Management 

•Work to define relationships with technology manufacturers orconsulting VAR’s to assist with deploying new or migrating existingtechnologies 

•Leverage outside consultants and resellers to supplement technologyholes in our bench or to supplement internal staff engineeringactivities 

 QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS 

• 5 + years project management experience in support of infrastructure initiatives 

•5 years of hands on experience supporting Cisco routing/switching andHP server technologies in a Microsoft LAN/WAN environment 

• BA or BS degree in Information Systems or equivalent. 

• MCSE 2003 certification or equivalent 

• CCNP 2000 certification or equivalent time in role 

• Experience with AD design and architecture concepts 

• Experience with complex TCP/IP networks and associated IP numbering and namespace services 

• Experience with Cisco switch and routing infrastructure and IOS command set