Senior Manager - Compute and Storage Services

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As a member of Maxar's IT leadership team, you'll be accountable for the staff, technology, operations and vendor relationships comprising our enterprise Virtualization, Storage and Platform teams.  Collaborate with your team, fellow leaders, Architects and other SME's across the organization to establish and execute a strategic & technology vision that lines up closely with business needs while ensuring ongoing operational excellence of our platforms.  You'll also work alongside project teams to support and coordinate the delivery of important initiatives supporting Maxar's mission.  Finally, you'll help guide and grow your team through direct supervision responsibilities.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the day-to-day operations of Maxar's enterprise virtualization, storage and PaaS teams, including accountability for performance, configurations, repair and KPI's.
• Assist your peers, the Senior Director of Infrastructure & Operations and the CIO in developing current and long-range business-aligned strategy for your platforms and people.
• Lead the creation of policies, procedures, technical standards, methods and priorities relevant to your services.
• Supervise and provide functional direction to your team.
• Work with your team to analyze new technologies and make recommendations.
• Effectively represent your team in meetings with vendors and other company divisions.
• Perform related duties as required, including after-hours work.
• Be willing to occasionally travel.

Requirements

• 5+ years in a people leadership role.
• Individual level experience and technical fluency with enterprise information technology platforms (past hands-on work in the trenches)
• Broad knowledge of and experience with the general Information Technology discipline
• Experience managing capital and operational budgets and playing a leading role in large sum negotiations
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to frame issues based on business implications rather than technical details
• Ability to leverage understanding of strategy to independently drive progress, even with incomplete information
• Mature time and resource management skills

Recommended qualifications:

• Past experience with VMware, including VCF, vRA, and managing environments and enterprise scale that deliver a self-service experience in a hybrid cloud environment.
• Exposure to Enterprise Storage platforms like NetApp NAS, Hitachi, Vast or equivalent.
• Exposure to Kubernetes / K8s orchestration and related automated deployment patterns.
• 7+ years managing technical engineering or operations teams.

● The base pay for this position within Colorado is: $129,000.00 - $215,000.00 annually.

For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health and welfare insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.maxar.com/careers/benefits

Additionally, this position is incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved; the specific incentive plan and target amount will be determined based on the role and breadth of contributions.

The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.  If the job is reposted regardless of reason, it will remain posted three days from the date the job is reposted and will remain reposted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. 

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To apply, submit your application via Maxar’s Career page.

Maxar Technologies values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.