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Arkansas City, Ks, Us

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Partner with Jostens Infrastructure and Development leadership to define, implement, and drive best practices in DevOps technologies, and culture. Team will develop the processes and tools that enable our teams to deliver changes continuously in a seamless, secure, and coordinated effort. Additionally, the develop and promote a strong culture of collaboration by partnering with development, Information Security, and Infrastructure teams to architect and solve operational problems. Utilizing automation, self-service, and enabling team autonomy which ensures continuous development at high velocity.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Develop, create, and modify processes to ensure accurate software deployment and release management. Analyze complex enterprise applications with many components and replicate the build and deployment processes both in cloud and local contexts.• Help define and develop tools that enable product teams to support the business• Migrate existing applications to new environments• Provide support to the existing configuration management environment• Develop solutions in alignment with departmental goals, SLA’s for availability, scalability and resiliency• Develop and advocate for best practices, standards and processes• Work with teams to identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement in the deployment and build processes• Lead improvement of technical processes across Platform engineering and Operations teams to improve delivery and availability for platforms• Keep systems running at peak performance and version upgrades using automation• Collaborate with Project Managers, Software Developers, QA and Infrastructure Engineering teams to deliver on time and within budget• Lead other product teams and developers through design and implementation decisions to achieve balance between strategic design and tactical needs• Participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment, security and high availability in the cloud

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Responsible for Architecting and implementing a comprehensive monitoring strategy and roadmap for IT Infrastructure and application monitoring across the Newell Brands organization. • Advance and streamline capabilities for monitoring, alerting, and reporting• Consolidate over 25 monitoring solutions down to a key set of core solutions – SCOM 2016, SolarWinds Orion• Deploy and manage new solutions across 5,000+ servers worldwide• Support and enhance SCORCH 2012 environment and evaluate replacement technologies• Support and manage Cherwell service management incident and change processes/procedures.• Provide support and guidance to Corporate System Administrators team• Closely collaborate with infrastructure and application support teams for support and monitoring management

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Responsible for owning overall design and integration of enterprise-wide systems including architecting, planning, design, installation, maintenance, management and coordination of corporate enterprise systems and infrastructure. • Manage Corporate System Administrators – Team responsible for troubleshooting server and applications issues on Server 2003-2016, Microsoft Patching, Application Code Migration, Infrastructure system migration, End User Support, Active Directory administration, DNS administration, Monitoring Operations.• Support and enhance SCORCH 2012 environment and PowerShell scripts• Architected and implemented migration from SCOM 2012 R2 to SCOM 2016• Work closely with infrastructure and application support teams to enhance monitoring capabilities across the organization.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Responsible for the planning, development and support of Jostens enterprise-wide technical architecture and infrastructure, which includes the integration of hardware, systems software and network technologies.Windows Server 2000/2003/2008/2012 Administration Microsoft security patchingSystem Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) Administration System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) AdministrationSystem Center Orchestrator (SCO/SCORCH) AdministrationAutomated code migrations Active Directory administrationEnterprise anti-virus updates Enterprise monitoring toolsEnd User Support

Manhattan, Us

• Manage all aspects of IT for the entire organization, currently twelve store locations across four cities• Spearhead IT architecture of new and existing company acquisitions and locations• Administer over 270 employee computer accounts, logins, passwords, and system configurations• Support six servers and 250+ workstations (XP, Win7, Server 2003, Server 2008)• Travel between store locations as necessary to resolve priority issues, supervise installations, and attend meetings• Maintain three Sonicwall firewalls, three Barracuda web-filters, and a GFI Mail Essentials e-mail filter• Coordinate the installation of private and public fiber-optic networks through vendors and internet service providers• Design and implement wireless infrastructures for internal use and a separate infrastructure for customer access• Diagnose and resolve network infrastructure challenges and issues• Train employees to perform various tasks and resolve small technical problems independently• Manage all help-desk tickets and respond to employee technical issues in a timely manner• Design, implement, and manage call flows and routing of the Cisco VoIP system for entire organization• Support and manage 300+ Cisco VoIP phones and devices• Recommend software and hardware upgrades and purchases• Achieve virtualization for the majority of server infrastructure using VMware products• Design and implement CRM programs for customer follow-up task generation• Coordinate with third party vendors and internet service providers for internet and analog phone lines

Manhattan, Us

• Assisted the IT Manager at six store locations in two cities• Supported and maintained desktop systems by reformatting and reinstalling operating systems• Diagnosed and resolved network connectivity issues including network cable testing, routing, and computer interfaces.