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County of Gaston Data Center Manager in Gastonia, North Carolina
The duties listed below are not all of the duties that may be assigned but are those that are considered as essential for an employee to perform.
- Provides leadership and working management of the Data Center and Virtualization teams responsible for the county's macro (server/SAN) and cloud compute, Active Directory environment, virtual platforms, data center methodologies, incident management, monitoring and reporting.
- Works primarily with the Deputy Chief Information Officer and optionally with IT Management peers and/or IT Leadership to determine and approve timetables, resources, and training.
- Collaborates with internal staff, vendors, and other stakeholders to provide technical solutions to business problems.
- Ensures that corrective and preventative measures are performed on existing systems to reduce the likelihood of problem recurrence. Keep Data Center and Virtual systems upgraded to or above minimal viable standards within purview.
- Studies and evaluates business processes and coordinate meetings between multiple departments to provide for integration and sharing of common information to promote productivity and efficiency.
- Build strong relationship with user departments and other outside enterprises such as value-added resellers, service providers, vendors, and other governmental agencies. Serve as the team liaison.
[Minimum Qualifications: Graduation from an accredited two or four-year college or university or specialized IT academy of higher learning with six (6) years ofexperience in data center/virtualization solutions supporting highly complex systems required. Must have knowledge ofmultiple Virtual machine (VM) technologies including AHV, Citrix and VMWare. Various SAN solutions and related compute, memory, network, and software requirement. SLAs, reporting and metric pertinent to Gaston County's IT infrastructure. ]{arial",sans-serif"=""}