The main responsibilities of this role are to manage the underlying environment supporting both the production and QA systems. This role is a senior position within a team of 5 dispersed globally. The team is responsible for the proactive management of the systems to ensure control, stability and capacity. Functional Responsibilities: Specific tasks include but are not limited to: Owning the underlying hardware, from an application support perspective. Work with the infrastructure teams to ensure the hardware and operating systems are current. Work with project teams to coordinate delivery of new systems into production. Managing change with in the production environment

Disaster Recovery:

Ensuring the DR plans are current

Planning and coordination of DR tests

QA specific

Ensuring the QA systems are available, end to end, such that the primary focus for the QA team is functional and regression testing

Capacity Management

Monitoring the capacity of the production systems and ensuring growth plans are in place to accommodate projected increase in Business volumes

Working with project and development teams to understand the impact of new systems being implemented

Release Management Required Skills:

Previous leadership experience within an infrastructure or application support team

Strong knowledge of Windows and UNIX/Solaris Operating systems

Strong knowledge of Unix shell and Perl scripting

Knowledge of software release procedures and toolsets

Experience with multi-tiered applications.

Working knowledge of SQL and database tools such as DBartisan or Rapid SQL

Working knowledge of IIS and Weblogic servers.