Information Technology Manager
Foothill Ranch, California, Us
Hands-on Senior Infrastructure (Windows/Linux), Network and Security Engineer and IT Manager Managed the implementation, configuration, migration to, as well as maintain the Microsoft Office 365 and Azure Cloud Infrastructure (Azure AD, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams, OneDrive, Intune & Autopilot) Manage and supervise the entire Information Technology Department - consisting of Sr. Database Engineers, Systems Engineers (Jr and Sr), Network and Security Engineers and Helpdesk, that are responsible for all IT-related software, hardware, and services for both the external customer-facing Production infrastructure and the internal corporate infrastructure Maintain coverage scheduling and on-call rotation to ensure the business’ needs are always met regardless of time/location Manage and maintain PCI compliance, and audit requirements (SAS70/SSAE16/SSAE18 SOC1/2) Responsible for establishing and maintaining all partner relationships and contracts Responsible for all IT-related decisions when it comes to hardware, software, and services Maintaining budget, cost/benefit and ROI analysis, and TCO reports to Executive Management Constant contract negotiation and encouraging partner competitiveness amounting to a cost savings of $103k annually for the Company, while adding fail-safe redundancies and increasing flexibility utilizing innovative SD-WAN technology and virtualization efficiencies Required to maintain (and have consistently maintained) 99.999% uptime across all infrastructure, as well as 1 hour RTO in a quarterly-tested DR site Manage and maintain all documentation requirements (DR/BCP, Acceptable use, Remote Access/ WFH, Incident Response, Change Management, Information Security, Asset Management Managed and oversaw implementation of a Company-first functional and tested Disaster Recovery environment Researched, analyzed and managed a complete redesign and modernization of the entire WAN, Server, virtual and communications infrastructure