Monday, December 5, 2011

[KITlist-Tech] Network Operations Manager (Mountain View, CA)

Please direct your responses to: careers@xora.com

Xora is a global leader in the enterprise applications that help organizations with employees in the field meet their productivity and service goals for about $1 per day per user. Xora Mobile solutions turn any GPS mobile device into a productivity tool for mobile employees. Xora InVehicle solutions improve fleet and driver efficiency and drive costs down. Xora is a preferred partner to market-leading wireless carriers, and more than 16,000 organizations around the world rely on Xora to save money every day.

Position Details:

Reporting to the Director-Technology Operations, the Network Operations Manager will work hands-on with a small operational support team responsible for pro-active monitoring and management of all pre-production and production systems. The Network Operations Manager will be responsible for a 7x24x365 operational environment where uptime is critical and requires immediate response to service impacting issues.

Position Duties & Responsibilities (detailed description):

•Managing the day-to-day operation of a 24x7x365 Network Operations group.
•Identify, diagnoses, and resolve complex technology issues efficiently.
•Work closely with the Engineering team to escalate issues for triage and resolution.
•Develop policies, procedures, and processes to ensure that "Best-Practices" are implemented and followed by operations staff.
•Maintain communication and status of incidents with other functional teams.
•Routinely review tickets and manage the post-mortem process to identify trends/chronic issues.
•Responsible for managing and maintaining monitoring tools.
•Audit proactive monitoring of all systems to detect and resolve problems to ensure uninterrupted operation of all infrastructure systems.
•Development of KPI reports on infrastructure performance reported on a weekly basis.
•Development of staff training plans, including recommendations for staff recruitment, retention, growth, and career development.
•Keeping management informed of status on all issues and projects.
•Owning/updating operational Run-books for all production systems.
•Contribute forward thinking ideas and technology concepts to maintain high availability, scalability and robustness of our infrastructure.

Skills and Expectations:

•Minimum of 5 years of experience working in a network operations group environment, with at least a 2 years in a lead or supervisory role.
•SaaS environment experience a plus.
•A strong technical background with the capability of stepping in and assisting the team in trouble-shooting and triage of incidents, bringing issues to rapid resolution.
•Working knowledge of the following technologies and areas:
oNetworking – Protocols, Load Balancers, VPN, Cisco IOS, Switches, Routers, PIX/ASA Firewalls, NIS, SNMP, SMTP
oEnterprise Servers – Sun Enterprise, Dell Servers
oStorage Technologies – SAN, NAS, DAS, VxFS, UFS, NFS
oOperating Systems – Solaris SPARC/x86, Linux, Windows, shell scripting
oDatabase – Oracle Enterprise Edition, Dataguard, RAC, MS SQLServer
oVirtualization technologies – Solaris Zones/Containers, VMware
oApplication Servers – Tomcat, Resin
oJava – JVM configuration, tuning and troubleshooting
oMonitoring Tools – Nagios, Cacti, Sitescope, etc.
oMulti-pod infrastructure management and concepts a plus
•Ability to develop, document, and publish operational processes and procedures.
•Ability to work with vendors, carriers, and suppliers in the provisioning and maintenance of services.
•Ability to manage and mentor subordinate staff.
•Must be a self-starter and require minimal guidance.
•Must have demonstrated leadership and problem solving abilities through work experience.
•Must have hands-on experience with hierarchical Network Management Systems (NMS).
•Excellent oral and written communication skills essential.
•Ability to work well under pressure is critical.
•Ability to take rotated on call on a weekly basis.
•Four year degree or equivalent experience.


Candidates can apply by sending their resume to: careers@xora.com

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