Assistant Director - IT Systems & Operations

What the role is

As an Assistant Director, you will lead a department with various functions and operations. You will review policies and manage resources to meet the organisational vision and goals. This position will also require you to play a key role in inspiring a team of staff and enhancing staff capabilities.

What you will be working on

1. Manage overall technology infrastructure services, end user computing environment and workspace, business continuity and recovery of company’s information systems.
2. Assess current and future needs, formulate strategic plans, propose and implement innovative solutions to achieve a cost-effective and scalable IT infrastructure that meets the organisation needs.
3. Oversee the overall effectiveness and efficiency of IT Infrastructure services and operations such as Cloud, Data centre, servers etc, adhere to standards and guidelines to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction, minimise outages and drive timely recovery of high severity outage affecting IT operations.
4. Monitor performance of the IT Infrastructure and establish plans for necessary technology refresh and expansion needs.
5. Able to create, lead and motivate a team in developing and delivering timely, high quality, scalable, extensible, cost effective solutions to overall day-to-day IT operations.
6. Develop Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and measure monthly, improving KPIs on an ongoing basis via Pareto and root cause / corrective analysis.
7. Develop and manage key metrics and Service Level Agreements (SLA) with users and colleges for the portfolio under management.

What we are looking for

1. Possess suitable academic qualifications in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field. Those with relevant post-graduate academic qualifications would have an advantage.
2. Minimum 15 years of experience in Infrastructure and Operations and / or Information Systems, with at least 5 years of experience at the management level handling large cross-functional teams.
3. Possess leadership qualities, good people and collaboration skills.
4. Good presentation, verbal and written communications skills.
5. Experience in infrastructure and operational support in a large, enterprise environment, IT best practices (e.g. ITIL), and managing third party service providers.
6. Experience in multi data centres, servers, end user computing technologies, administration, design and operations.
7. Excellent working knowledge of Windows, UNIX, Linux, VMware, Storage Area Network, Oracle or Microsoft database technologies and administration required.
8. Experience with Cloud technologies, Microsoft M365, outsourcing experience, Desktop and Application virtualization.
9. Familiarity with Government Tendering procedures, IT Security Policy, IT Governance in Public Sector and managing IT budgets would be an advantage.
10. Experience in the areas of IT security practices with relevant IT security management certifications (e.g. CISSP, CISM) will be an advantage.

Applicants may check their application status at the end of 8 weeks from the closing date of this job posting.