Manager-IT Engineering Cloud Systems

Manager-IT Engineering Cloud Systems

Summary Statement:

The IT Manager will be responsible for developing maintenance and growth plans, creating annual and project budgets, managing the IT staff day to day operations, and keeping the executive team up to date on the latest technologies to keep Penske moving forward.

What You Will Be Doing:

As a Penske Manager of IT Engineering – Cloud Systems You will be working with and innovating Penske's cutting-edge Cloud environment with a team of industry leading experts. You will lead the Cloud Engineering teams and support staff through a diverse range of projects. You will be responsible for the reliability, performance, recoverability, and security of the corporate AWS, GCP, and OCI Cloud environments and the underlying team that manages and supports the environment. You will be keeping Penske updated with the latest technology and knowledge from the industry and implementing these changes across the entire organization.

Penske Responsibilities:

• Maintain and recommend information technology strategies, policies, and procedures

• Manage staff, including recruiting, selecting, onboarding, training, coaching, and supervising associate performance. 

• Oversees team performance on enterprise projects by coordinating resources and aligning objectives .

• Enable faster and smarter business processes and implement analytics for meaningful insights.

• Maintain reliability, performance, recoverability, and security of the corporate Cloud environment.

• Oversee daily operations of design, configuration, implementation, support, troubleshooting, maintenance, performance monitoring and the development of specialized procedures relating to the use of the corporate cloud computing environment.

• Work closely with technical staff on best practice development and implementation. 

• Ensure the functional, cost effectiveness and timely support of systems on a 24x7 basis.

• Plan for growth and provide projections for business plan.

• Assess need for any system reconfigurations and execute them if required.

• Research and implement new open-source and commercial tools, technologies and methodologies.

• Serve as thought leader and final decision maker able to drive team to conclusions regarding technical solutions.

• Comfort working under pressure with evolving priorities and deadlines.

• Project management and leadership of technical teams to deliver projects on time while working with business stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of services.

• Proactive leadership, looking for a leader that doesn’t wait for the problems, rather one that will identify opportunities and formulate positive outcomes.

• Comfort in spanning teams and working with other responsible parties to drive positive outcomes to business requests.

• Understands what it means to be customer focused and that outcomes can take negotiation and understanding with the ability to balance what is being requested to what we are practically able to deliver.

• Other projects and tasks as assigned.