Director-IT, Cybersecurity (SJC metro area)

Gener8, LLC•San Jose, CA

51d•$151,161 - $201,548•Onsite

About The Position

The Director of IT Infrastructure is a hands-on role for a multisite, engineering services, product design, and manufacturing organization. You will be expected to provide thought leadership, business acumen, as well as hands-on support to an engineering (hardware and software) focused user community. You will have overall responsibility for the Company’s IT Infrastructure across multiple locations. You will also have responsibility for cybersecurity for the Company.

Requirements

BS degree in Computer Science, Business, Engineering or equivalent experience required
10+ years experience in an engineering services and product development company
10+ years experience supporting a high-tech manufacturing firm including all shop floor applications and hardware
10+ years at a Sr. Manager or higher level
10+ years experience supporting Google Workspace across multiple locations for high tech companies
10+ years’ experience supporting custom software development and associated tools
10+ years of relevant industry experience supporting multiple locations, heterogeneous environments (Windows, Linux, iOS,), etc.
10+ years’ experience and demonstrated expert level knowledge of Active Directory including management of, consolidating domains, etc.
5+ years’ experience and demonstrated expert level knowledge of VMware
5+ years experience managing Okta for SSO and MFA
5+ years’ experience supporting Arena PLM
5+ years experience managing vendor negotiations and renewals
5+ years’ experience managing and supporting Azure, with a focus on moving workloads from on premises to the Cloud
Prior experience leading an Infrastructure team in a SOX regulated company
Prior experience supporting an Engineering services organization leveraging SolidWorks across multiple sites
Understanding of what “good looks like” at a larger corporation, with startup “can do” mentality
Strong interpersonal & communications skills. The person in this position must be able to integrate & communicate clearly & easily with other team members, as well as with end-users at all levels.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree highly desirable
Prior experience managing Proofpoint or similar solution highly desirable
Prior experience with Palo Alto Networks (firewalls, Panorama, Global Protect) highly desirable
Prior experience with Meraki (, wireless) highly desirable
Prior experience with Cisco switches highly desirable
Prior experience with Veeam highly desirable
Prior experience in a PE backed portfolio company highly desirable

Responsibilities

"Owner" of Company’s IT Infrastructure with a focus on secure, scalable and cost-effective solutions.
Leadership and management of a small IT Infrastructure and Help Desk team (2-3 people) including hiring, training, mentoring, supervising, etc.
Support for company-wide applications, Infrastructure and services. Including but not limited to Active Directory, Google Workspace, SolidWorks, Okta, Zoom, CrowdStrike, Arena PLM, QAD,AD, fileserver/storage, firewalls & switches, etc.
Virtualization environments include Hyper-V and VMware environments across multiple locations, including sever hardware, storage, configuration, licensing, monitoring, capacity, & performance management.
Oversee and manage production systems including backups, performance tuning, fault resolution, capacity planning, & root cause analysis across multiple sites, platforms & operating systems.
Improve the efficiency, ease of management, & performance of the existing infrastructure through discovery, evaluation & testing, and comparing against industry best practices.
Effectively manage time & priorities. Deliver projects on schedule & communicate issues with teammates proactively.
Occasionally handle tier-2-3 escalated Help Desk tickets.