Director of Cloud Services & Utilities Job in Pleasanton, California US
Director of Cloud Services Utilities
This position provides business and technical leadership and direction for the delivery of services and utilities for Kaiser's infrastructure. This is a leadership position within the Systems Integration group to design, and implement solutions that will enable shared services usage at KP as it relates to Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software As a Service. In addition the position will lead the roadmap and design of the Middleware components including messaging, application servers and web servers platforms. This position will be responsible for identifying and adopting technologies to deploy and maintain shared services as a cost effective offering. This position will be responsible for leading multiple large-scale programs/projects and/or initiatives, including providing direction and guidance to a matrixed team of project managers and engineers in several technical fields, including servers, storage and database design and administration. Key to this individual's success is the ability to lead a team that is both responsible for technical designs as standards, as well as technical project management and delivery and to partner with application to extend their availability capabilities. This position will be accountable for the unit cost for the shared services and benchmarking against the industry. Additionally, this executive will collaborate with other SI leaders and application owners as well as IT Infrastructure Program leaders to provide support for and ensure alignment with other significant tracks of work, including Solution Design, Data Center Services, Infrastructure Program, Program Delivery, and next generation data centers. PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES To design, implement and support cost-efficient shared services for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Additionally Middleware and Services roadmaps including Virtualization will be the responsibility of this individual. Under the direction of the ED for Technology Integration this leader builds and guides teams that design engineer, develop and execute complex plans and focuses resources on situations requiring intense short-term and/or long-term effort in order to deliver value. Program/project deliverables and timelines will be aggressive and require a sophisticated mix of technology application and organizational change to deliver expected benefits. . SHORT- AND LONG-TERM ACCOUNTABILITIES Deliver significant business value by building strategic relationships, assessing needs, forming collaborative cross-functional strategic design, development and execution teams, and ultimately delivering against commitments on-time, within budget and to quality expectations across multiple program initiatives. Deliver Roadmaps for Middleware, Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), Virtualization, and Multi-Tenancy Utilities (Web). Coordinate the implementation of the roadmap's across the data centers. Accountable for the service cost for each of the above. Build a high-performance organization by Identifying and onboarding well qualified resources in key roles Clearly defining objectives and critical success factors Leveraging shared services including Finance, Governance and PMO to support the team's delivery focus Building strongly collaborative relationships with stakeholders and customers. Provide executive-level leadership and guidance within KPIT in the area of enterprise availability - including maintaining significant technical depth and domain expertise and staying connected to industry trends and forums in a manner that is leveraged within KPIT via your effort to collaboratively synthesize and present technical information supportive of the Infrastructure Program initiative and KP's business objectives. WORKING RELATIONSHIPS IMG and SI Leadership Team SIO Leadership Team IMG Leadership Team Direct Reports and Staff World-class peers in external professional organizations KEY RELATIONSHIPS CD BIO eBusiness Solution Design Enterprise Architecture Data Center Services Qualifications: - B.S/ B.A. in an engineering/technical discipline required or 4 years of additional work experience - 10 years of Infrastructure background which includes : Storage (SAN, NAS), Servers (Open Systems) - 5 years of Infrastructure Management experience in large complex enterprise environment - Must have experience managing a technical team of 25+ staff members - 4 - 5 years experience interaction and creating business cases and presentations with Senior Executives staff members - Demonstrated track record of significant accomplishment in a senior leadership role including the successful development and implementation of multi-million dollar programs/projects in complex matrixed organizations with numerous constituents - Experience with design or implementation one of more of the following infrastructure components: Storage area networks, mid-range servers, load balancing, database replication, storage replication. - Experience managing a multi-year program of related cross-functional projects is preferred. - Experience with Virtualization is required - at least 4 years of management experience. - Running a VMWare utility including standards setting, automation, and capacity and capital planning. - Planning and supporting a self-service cloud offering. (Private cloud preferred). This includes developing IaaS and PaaS offerings, managing engineering necessary to build, deploy and support. - 4 years experience with managing Cloud technologies - 4 years experience managing Middleware technologies - Experience with Utility computing is highly preferred Demonstrated track record of significant accomplishment in a senior leadership role including the successful development and implementation of multi-million dollar programs/projects in complex matrixed organizations with numerous constituents. Experience with design or implementation one of more of the following infrastructure components: Storage area networks, mid-range servers, load balancing, database replication, storage replication. Experience managing a multi-year program of related cross-functional projects is preferred. DESIRED EXPERIENCE MS/MBA Degree Experience from global consulting firm Experience managing large infrastructure in fortune 50 organization