Infrastructure & Operations Strategy (NYC & Charlotte) Job Listing at Advance Consulting & Staffing in New York, NY

Staffing/Employment

Category : Information Technology
Location/City : NY - New York

Great opening with a Fortune Top 50 employer that is aggressively expanding and looking to hire Top Infrastructure Strategy professionals to be based out of locations in New York City and Charlotte, North Carolina.
Responsibilities
Build trusted relationships as a strategic technology advisor with clients, and work internally across teams to help bring clients the most comprehensive, end-to-end business and IT services to effectively address their business challenges.
Collaborate with other members of their engagement teams to plan engagements and develop project plans and work programs, timelines, risk assessments, and other planning documents as it relates to data center and infrastructure operations.
Servers Experience: Infrastructure, Platform Sizing, Consolidation, Tiered and Virtualized Storage, Automated Provisioning, Rationalization, Infrastructure Cost Reduction, Thin Provisioning.
Storage Experience: Storage Capacity Planning, Storage Area Network (SAN) Planning, Network Attached Storage (NAS).
Demonstrate and apply a thorough understanding of complex information systems and technology organizations. Experience with data center consolidation and integration.
Use knowledge of the current IT environment and industry IT trends to identify the engagement and client service issues and communicate this information to the engagement team and client management through written correspondence and verbal presentations.
Demonstrate and apply strong project management skills, inspire teamwork and responsibility with engagement team members, and use current technology and tools to enhance the effectiveness of deliverables and services.

Qualifications
A degree in computer science, engineering, accounting, finance or a related field; MBA or MS degree preferred
Experience working in the financial services industry or comparable experience working as an advisor to a financial services company; preferably with a strong consulting background in banking, asset management, capital markets or insurance
Previous experience in Monitoring, Capacity Planning, Facilities Management, Performance Tuning, Asset Management, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery.
Experience on strategic consulting engagements developing detailed, compelling and analytical PowerPoint/Excel/Word/Visio deliverables to convey complex thoughts and ideas to various stakeholders
Experience in leading disaster recovery and business continuity functions/operations
Strong demonstrated project/program management skills in a cross-functional management role
Experience in developing advisory solution offerings and marketing assets preferred
IT Infrastructure Strategy Design, IT Mergers and Acquisitions Integration
Data Center Facilities Management and Operations
Networking, Mainframe and Distributed Servers, PBX/Telephony, Storage and Storage Management Systems
Strong engagement management and delivery skills (i.e. ability to scope/size a project, staff a team with the appropriate skill set, provide subject matter direction and guidance to a team, manage the delivery of an engagement workstream)
Business development experience a plus (opportunity qualification, identification and sizing; proposal writing; presentation to client during orals presentations)
Required IT Advisory Competencies:
Broad knowledge of the IT function and how IT enables the business through effective strategic planning, governance and management discipline
Knowledge of key IT management processes and industry frameworks (e.g. CMMI, COBIT,ITIL, Six Sigma, ISO 2700x, TOGAF, project management life cycles, systems development life cycles, PMBOK, Prince2, data center operations, etc)
Experience working with IT leadership (CIO, IT Director) and business leadership (CFO, COO, BU President, etc) to help shape and guide the IT strategic and improvement agenda
At least one certification (e.g. CISSP, CISM, CISA, CBCP, ITIL, PMP or other specialized IT certifications)
CMII, CBCP, ITIL, PMP, SSBB/SSGB/MSSBB, SCRUM Master, MOF or other specialized IT certifications
Full-time role with great benefits including: medical, dental, 401k match, generous vacation, tuition reimbursement, etc.
If interested, please send resume or inquiry to jobs4@advance-now.com