Critical Systems Engineering Manager recruitment

Position Summary

This position reports to Asia Facility Management Lead and will interface closely with the other key stakeholders such as Regional Managers, as well as Regional Global Heads of CSRE and Technology. This position will have primary responsibilities for the reliable day-to-day operation of the critical systems infrastructure supporting business, trading, and data center operations for the firm’s facilities and office operations in Asia.

Principal Responsibilities

•Work with CSRE regional, global team and Technology to establish and review critical systems strategy to meet the firm’s business requirement.
•Ensure the critical MEP infrastructure supporting business operations is operated and maintained to the highest standards of reliability and efficiency and in accordance with the firm’s global engineering policies and procedures.
•Manage the Critical Systems Engineering team and service providers in Asia to drive consistency, roll out global regional initiatives and identify opportunities to enhance reliability and minimize risk.
•Work closely with Technology to support day-to-day change management activity and manage capacity in the firm’s data centers, technology spaces, and trading environments.
•Manage the onsite vendors providing engineering operations services and ensuring that all work is performed in accordance with the firm’s policies.
•Develop and manage the annual operations and capital budgets for all facilities relating to critical systems engineering.
•Ensure accurate and timely reporting of infrastructure capacity, data center utilization, and overall operational performance using the Firm’s standardized reporting processes.  
•Work with the Infrastructure Planning team and Capital Projects team in testing/commissioning standards that provide the basis of requirements for consultants, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
•Act as the Facility Management team representative stakeholder for critical system design and operational requirements for all new construction and expansion activity within critical environments.
•Coordinate with Capital Projects and Technology to ensure that construction activity in live data center environments is performed in accordance with approved work control processes to mitigate business impact associated with high risk work.
•Primary responsibility for assessing and communicating potential for business impact to critical systems and environments resulting from external and internal events and ensure that appropriate resources and processes are utilized to mitigate risk of business interruption.

Experience / Skills

•Bachelor’s Degree in engineering.
•Minimum of 15 years of facilities management experience preferably with financial institutions or other technology intensive organizations with 5 or more years experience with trading and data center operations.
•Broad understanding of critical systems infrastructure, risk mitigation practices for operation and maintenance of critical systems, and demonstrated experience working with IT organizations in the planning and operational of data center environments.
•Demonstrated experience developing and implementing energy management and environmental compliance programs.
•Proficient with the suite of Microsoft Office software.
•Strong leadership skill to support and implement changes and best practices

Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to the principle of diversity. Goldman Sachs conducts background checks on individuals offered employment with the firm and employment with Goldman Sachs is conditional upon individuals successfully completing those checks.  As part of the background check process, Goldman Sachs may need to obtain a record of disclosable criminal convictions from a government agency such as the Criminal Records Bureau. The firm has adopted policies on the recruitment of ex-offenders and on the retention, storage and disposal of criminal record information which are available on request