Computer Systems Manager Jobs in McDonough, GA (NOW HIRING)

HYBRID POSITION - MUST BE LOCAL TO ATLANTA, GA

CORE JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage daily activities and resources

• Set team vision and align priorities with seniorinfrastructuremanagement

• Work with business sponsors to identify any technological needs and identify potential solutions for them

• Maintain on-call rotation and ensure that team members are responsive as needed after hours

• Document standard processes and procedures

• Work with senior leadership to set quarterly goals and track progress against plans.

• Create and maintain performance metrics used to measure and improve performance

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Data CenterManagement

• Own day-to-day operations and strategic improvement of enterprise Data Center environments, ensuring reliability, scalability, security, and performance.

• Manage and monitor the VMware environment.

• Manage the Rubrik backup solution to ensure onsite and offsite backups of critical data with regular restore testing.

• Ensure monthly patching throughBatchPatchand AzureArc, andmaintain a scheduled monthly maintenance window.

• Manage and configure SolarWinds and/or PRTG monitoring solutions to ensure high availability of critical servers and services; monitor all critical server and storage components.

• Serve as the primary escalation point for Data Center and infrastructure platform incidents, driving root causeanalysisand preventive improvements.

Disaster Recovery

• Define and manage the DR strategy for the core Data Center components along with disaster recovery specific plans for the primary SQL databases.

• Track allyearly DR exercise testsand ensure they arecompletedwith properevidence gathered.

• Partner with applicationteams, infrastructure teams, and architecture teams toensure all critical applications complete their required yearly DR exercisesand track the progress.

• Ensure allDRdocumentation is up to date.

Platform Management

• Lead on-premises server platform architecture, including server patching throughBatchPatch(to be retired) and Azure Arc monitoring and patching.

• Enforce governanceand policystandards, including RBAC, Policy, naming conventions, and security baselines.

• Partner with application teams, infrastructure teams, and architecture teams to enable cloud migrations, refactoring, and modernization initiatives from traditional on-premises services.

• Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on:

• Reducing incidents

• Improving mean time to resolution (MTTR)

• Increasing automation coverage

• Manage the SQL team and ensure 24x7 coverage from the vendor with documented processes.

• Manage the Device 42 engineer to configure the application to support asset discovery and management

• Ensure all services and documentation are up to date.

Cloudand Identity

• Engage with the Cloud team inautomation-first cloud operations, reducing manualeffortand increasing deployment consistency.

• Understandself-service resource provisioning for application teams through approved templates and pipelines.

• ReviewCloud Automation documentation, runbooks, and operational standards.

• Understandproactive monitoring, alerting, and health dashboards using Azure-native tools.

• Engage with the Identity team to become proficient in the usage ofprivileged roles across the environment.

• Experience supporting Microsoft Teams Phone (Teams Voice).

People & Vendor Management

• Leadengineerswhererequired.

• Define priorities, manage capacity, and ensure predictable delivery.

• Manage vendor relationships, licensing, and renewals.

• Collaborate closely with cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, and application teams.

KEY COMPETENCIES:

• Strong written and verbal communication

• Excellent time management and organizational skills

• Keen attention to detail

• Problem-solving

• Hardworking and dedicated

• Comfortable in afast-pacedenvironment

• Able to adjustand take direction from multiple leadersand manage priorities.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience.

• 6+ years of experience in systems engineering or platform operations, including VMware, Rubrik, and SolarWinds.

• 2+ years in a people management or technical leadership role.

• Strongexpertiseindata center platforms and management.

• Proven experience implementingbestpractices.

• Strong automation skills (PowerShell required).

• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• MicrosoftMCSE

• Experienceworking with multiple Data Center management systems

• Exposure toAzure orAWS or GCP

• Experience supporting platforms in M&A scenarios.

• Exposure to industry standard systems engineering products.

ENVIRONMENT:

• 100%Performed in climate-controlled internal office environment working under normal office conditions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; stand; walk; use hands and finger to feel and handle; reach with arms and hands; talk and hear. While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently is required to stoop, kneel, and crouch; lift weight or exert a force up to a maximum of 13kgs(29lb.).

ADDITIONAL:

• Follow the Company HR Policy, the Code of Business Conduct and department policies and procedures, including protecting confidential company information, attending work punctually and regularly, and following good safety practices in all activities.

• The responsibilities associated with this job will change from time to time in accordance with the Company's business needs. More specifically, the incumbent may be required to perform additional and/or different responsibilities from those set forth above.

• The above declarations are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor of the skills and abilities required to perform the job.

• Comply with all training requirements for the role.