We are excited to announce we are hiring a new IT Manager to manage one of our clients in Corpus Christi, Texas!

Our Company Culture:

Our diverse workforce allows Centre to develop and leverage knowledge, skills, and experiences that impact our overall success. Within our collaborative environment, our team of consultants workto identify innovative solutions for our clients. Together, we guide our clients through the process of selecting, deploying, and managing IT solutions tailored to their specific business needs.

Centre Company Benefits:

Hybrid Work Options,Paid Time Off, and Paid Holidays
Medical, Dental, Vision, and 401(k) with employer match contributions
Stability to grow alongside hard workers in a collaborative environment with opportunities to grow professionally

Position Summary

The IT Manager plays a critical role in ensuring the quality and experience of service that we provide to our managed services customers. They will provide leadership to a team of Consultants and directs managed services best practices that are efficient, effective, and meet good business principles. In collaboration with Centre’s Director of Managed Services, they will determine the appropriate team skills, processes, resources, and tools necessary and is accountable for the quality of our Managed Services delivery team’s work. They also drive continuous improvement to the quality of services and innovative delivery models. They also serve as a key member of the Centre Management Team and is expected to facilitate overall business planning, prioritization, and collaboration.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Benchmark, analyze, report on, and make recommendations for the improvement and growth of the Managed Services infrastructure and systems
Manage financial aspects of the Managed Services Department, including purchasing, budgeting, and budget review
Service Desk and Operations delivery methodology innovation leveraging social, self-service and other automated ways to provide highly responsive managed services
Provide evidence or proof of process and methodology via customer documentation and auditable standards
Develop and maintain monthly and quarterly Service Desk and Operations business and performance review meeting templates
Manage the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, development, upgrade, and support of all Managed Services systems, including servers, PCs, operating systems, hardware, software, and peripherals
Ownership and continuous improvement of Centre’s Managed Services delivery toolset
Develop and maintain Managed Services billing processes
Maintain repository of Centre’s Managed Services guidelines, processes and templates
Responsible for driving new and existing business and assisting with presales opportunities
Responsible for maintaining Quality, Security, Compliance, and Assurance for all Managed Services clients
Manage the Managed Services staffing, including recruitment, supervision, scheduling, development, evaluation, and disciplinary actions
Encourage and maintain proactive client management
Ticket Escalation & Critical Issue Management
Maintain and exceed client SLA’s
Communicate with all parties in a constructive manner to guarantee customer expectations are met
Ensure communication of escalated issues to customers: keep them informed of progress, and notify them of impending changes or agreed outages, etc
Manage the development of the team by ensuring that daily tasks and activities are in line with their career interests
Assist the managed services team in design and development tasks
Review and approve the managed services team’s time and expenses sheets in ConnectWise
Enter all work as activities, service tickets, or project tickets into ConnectWise

Education/Experience/Certifications

Bachelor’s Degree required
5+ years of hands-on leadership experience
Must possess excellent knowledge and experience using Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Excel, and Access
- Windows 8/10
- Windows Server 2012/2016
- Microsoft Windows Administration tools (AD Users and Computers, DHCP, DNS, Group Policy, Sites andServices, etc.)
- Microsoft Active Directory (Architect, Implementations, Migrations)
- Microsoft Exchange (Architect, Implementations, Migrations)
- Citrix Technologies (Architect, Implementations, Migrations)
  - XenServer
  - XenApp
  - XenDesktop
  - Web Interface
  - Secure/Access Gateway
  - NetScaler & WANScaler
- Backup / DR strategies (Architect, Implementation and Administration)
- Systems Upgrades including security patch management
- Monitoring of system utilization and application performance
- Understanding of network infrastructures and troubleshooting various networking protocols including but not limited to TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, etc
- Experience with various network hardware systems such as but not limited to Cisco Switches, Cisco ASA,HP ProCurve, Sonicwall, Fortigate
- Experience with various Enterprise level server hardware such as but not limited to Dell PowerEdge servers, HP ProLiant Blade servers, Cisco UCS servers, etc
- Experience with Enterprise Storage solutions such as but not limited to ExaGrid, Compellent

Work Environment and Physical Demands

Work primarily in a climate-controlled environment with minimal safety/health hazard potential.
Occasional lifting (up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds) may be required
Reasonable accommodations can be made to enable individuals with disabilities/injuries to perform the essential functions of this role
The noise level in the work environment is moderate
Some regional travel and frequent local travel required.

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