Director of IT
Location: US, , 
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Industry: Media Production
Function: Information Technology
Company profile: Industrial Color Software is a division of Industrial Color Brands, a family of vertically integrated creative production companies. Founded in 1991 from a culture of innovation, excellence and attention to industry trends and client needs, the brands operate independently and together to provide high-level holistic solutions for photography, advertising, retail, media, and production industries. Industrial Color Brands include GlobalEdit, Impact Digital, Fast Ashley’s Studios, Industrial Color Software, and the M Project Gallery.
Description: The Director of IT is responsible for planning, implementing, 24X7 monitoring, and supporting our datacenter with its servers and systems in Tribeca along with offices in LA and Williamsburg, Brooklyn.This role will oversee multiple functional areas including linux and windows servers, clustered Isilon storage, various VMWare clusters and our 10 and 1gig networks. An important aspect of this role will be to increase the realiability and uptime of our key systems and technologies while ensuring that we have a strong focus on automation, backup, security and solving problems pro-actively.This role will also be responsible for establishing architecture and IT standards that support the broader security and manageability objectives of Industrial Color, while working closely with our key divisions to ensure that the systems they depend on are performing optimially.Additionally, you will be responsible for managing and growing a small team while leading the development of many complex IT projects involving our high-speed networks and clustered storage systems.If you are looking for a creative company where you can have a large impact across the organization, please apply today.
Requirements: • 2+ years of experience managing an IT team• 10+ years of relevant technical experience working in large scale production operations preferably with responsibility for datacenter operations and providing support to a 24/7 Saas product.• Proven skills in managing complex workloads, prioritizing work, and executing long-term projects in the face of short-term fires.• Must be able to communicate and collaborate effectively with many internal teams including key business stakeholders.• Experience designing, building, and maintaining multi-data center, multi-instance architectures (N+1, Active-Active, A-B stack, full DR fail over capability) is highly desired• Proven experience working with 1 and 10gig networks, CDN technologies, robust DNS and IP Space architectures, DDOS mitigation strategies, WAN optimizations and regional performance troubleshooting and remediation• Technical hands-on experience with Virtualization, Cloud Architectures, Systems, Storage, Databases, and Networks• Understands web-based software architecture/engineering as it relates to the infrastructure and network operations• Understand information security best practices• Strong collaboration and communications skills• Ability to manage multiple critical concurrent projects• Ability to work independently and to self-organize• Integrity and strong work-ethic• Passion for excellence and unwavering desire to improve one skills and execution• Ability to accept constructive feedback and remain positive
Benefits: Industrial Color offers competitive benefits including medical, 401k, and PTO in our beautiful 30k sq. ft offices in Tribeca.
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