Data Center Manager
Network Appliance (Raleigh/Durham-RTP, North Carolina)

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Description: This role is pivotal to the development of all future products - and will be responsible for making critical business decisions that will determine Engineerings ability to provide future technology offerings. The key concern is ensuring a productive engineering environment while maintaining effective cost control.

This role will also help to lead the build-out of large scale heterogeneous computing grids and their management software to provide flexible shareable hardware environments.

You will analyze the needs of functional departments and establish priorities for feasibility studies and delivery of solutions; provide testing services and technical support for computer systems, subsystems, distributed systems, and systems software; and develop new and/or modify the companys information processing systems.

Essential Functions:
- Work with the development teams in Product Operations to determine their needs, and agree on common strategies. Ensure the teams are providing excellent and highly responsive support to the development teams.
- Actively engage in hiring the best and be effective in development to ensure organizational agility.
- Manage relationships with Work Place Resources on buildings and procurement, with IT on tools and networking, and with Finance.
- Drive continued industry leading innovation in datacenter and grid design
- Partner with the tools team to ensure highly productive developer environment.
- Partner with the sales teams to maximize revenue potential of our datacenter and grid design expertise
- Partner with Finance on efforts to control TCO of the engineering labs.
- Assist with contract negotiations with consultants, technical personnel, and vendors for services and products.
- Ensure program milestones and objectives are met.
- Keep senior management informed of key issues and changes which may impact expected business results.
- Ensure that projects adhere to the company processes and initiate process improvements as needed.
- Take responsibility for results, including costs, methods and staffing.


Requirements:
- 5 -10 years experience in managing an IT organization
- Experience in data center design, computing grids and their software implications
- Solid knowledge of the financial implications of an IT organization
- Strong track record in excelling in the communication with engineers, vendors and finance
- Experience in leveraging IT expertise in customer facing role - preferred
- Must be comfortable in working with a fast moving organization - and agile enough to addressing rapidly evolving customer requirements
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, negotiation, and organizational skills are required.
- Excellent interpersonal and conflict management skills; able to work collaboratively in a team environment.
- Excellent knowledge of product lifecycle, tools, processes, and operations planning.
- Persistent and dependable, especially with attendance and meeting deadlines.
- Ability to manage multiple competing priorities.
- Ability to work well with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience
- Ability to adapt to a constantly changing environment; flexibility to work extended hours and weekends if needed; occasional travel required.
- Strong understanding of engineering principles and practices, and NetApps systems and architecture.
- Experience with developing budgets and predicting project costs.
- Strong project management and leadership skills.

BS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering. MS preferred5-10 years Technology Management experience Qualifications: This role is pivotal to the development of all future products - and will be responsible for making critical business decisions that will determine Engineerings ability to provide future technology offerings. Network Appliances Product Operations group presides over a large and rapidly changing mass of computing equipment. The key concern is ensuring a productive engineering environment while maintaining effective cost control.

Essential Functions:
- Work with the development teams in Product Operations to determine their needs, and agree on common strategies. Ensure the teams are providing excellent and highly responsive support to the development teams.
- Actively engage in hiring the best and be effective in development to ensure organizational agility.
- Manage relationships with Work Place Resources on buildings and procurement, with IT on tools and networking, and with Finance.
- Drive continued industry leading innovation in datacenter and grid design
- Partner with the tools team to ensure highly productive developer environment.
- Partner with the sales teams to maximize revenue potential of our datacenter and grid design expertise
- Partner with Finance on efforts to control TCO of the engineering labs.
- Assist with contract negotiations with consultants, technical personnel, and vendors for services and products.
- Ensure program milestones and objectives are met.
- Keep senior management informed of key issues and changes which may impact expected business results.
- Ensure that projects adhere to the company processes and initiate process improvements as needed.
- Take responsibility for results, including costs, methods and staffing.


Requirements:
- 5 -10 years experience in managing an IT organization
- Experience in data center design, computing grids and their software implications
- Solid knowledge of the financial implications of an IT organization
- Strong track record in excelling in the communication with engineers, vendors and finance
- Experience in leveraging IT expertise in customer facing role - preferred
- Must be comfortable in working with a fast moving organization - and agile enough to addressing rapidly evolving customer requirements
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, negotiation, and organizational skills are required.
- Excellent interpersonal and conflict management skills; able to work collaboratively in a team environment.
- Excellent knowledge of product lifecycle, tools, processes, and operations planning.
- Persistent and dependable, especially with attendance and meeting deadlines.
- Ability to manage multiple competing priorities.
- Ability to work well with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience
- Ability to adapt to a constantly changing environment; flexibility to work extended hours and weekends if needed; occasional travel required.
- Strong understanding of engineering principles and practices, and NetApps systems and architecture.
- Experience with developing budgets and predicting project costs.
- Strong project management and leadership skills. Salary/Benefits: Salary commensurate with experience To learn more about NetApp employee benefits go to: http://www.netapp.com/jobs/benefits.html Job Location: USA - North Carolina - Research Triangle Park, NC Job Number: 906BR Company URL: http://www.netapp.com Company Profile: NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that help accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Our dedication to principles of simplicity, innovation, and customer success has made us one of the fastest-growing storage and data management providers today.

Customers around the world choose us for our "go beyond" approach and broad portfolio of solutions for business applications, storage for virtual servers, disk-to-disk backup, and more. Our solutions provide nonstop availability of critical business data and simplify business processes so you can deploy new capabilities with confidence and get to revenue faster than ever before. You can rely on our industry-leading solutions to lower the cost of protecting your data, business, and reputation.

We bring together the industry's best partners and technology to deliver services that help you maximize what you are getting from your infrastructure. Our collaborative approach, working as one team with one goal, means that you get a solution that is just right for you-on time and on budget. To support your global business, we provide highly-responsive support in local languages. From London to Austin, from Bangalore to Tokyo, well work with you to solve your problems and help you reach your goals.

Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.