Deputy General Manager_System Engineer_Pune

Posting Country: India

Date Posted: 04-Feb-2023

Full Time / Part Time: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

At Vodafone, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this.

We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.

With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.

Description

The Infrastructure Operations Authority provides expert knowledge on the operation and management of central and/or local data centres, legacy and/or centralized infrastructure, standards and requirements to support the availability of Vodafone IT applications and Data Centre activities and database environments. The Infrastructure Operations Authority focusses on activities that ensure the availability and effective functioning of internal network infrastructure, data availability and technical support for customers (internal and external). Including monitoring of hardware and software in datacentres, and executing event/incident, configuration, escalation, release, deployment and 3rd party database management activities. Typically reports to the Senior Infrastructure Manager.

Job Responsibility

* Assists with and advises on the future customer demands / trends, giving direction on improvement for Vodafone Infrastructure Management practices and procedures to support the achievement of the technology strategy;

* Drives delivery of Vodafone Infrastructure Management requirements and initiatives through the identification of business requirements and IT database needs, including coordination of security, maintenance and utilisation;

* Executes optimisation activities of the cost of the current infrastructure and connectivity needs;

* Performs regular system reviews and resilience improvements in order to provide best customer experience on service;

* Maintains solid relations and works closely with Project Managers and Technology teams and acts as a point of contact in case of business impacting activities;

* Demonstrates solid communication skills, managing vendors of assigned systems. Reviews vendor incidents regularly and organises vendor meetings to ensure that all incidents are solved according to Service Level Agreements (SLAs);

* Uses best practice knowledge to keep the consistency in infrastructure compliancy to Vodafone Group standards;

* Understands IT/Network infrastructure challenges across firewalls, file transfer protocols, proxy servers, data centres, cloud, virtualisation, storage and backup areas;

* Understands the theories and practices across the service performance spectrum, leading refresh and/or decommissioning programmes that improve service availability effectiveness;

* May provide informal guidance to junior staff.

Skills

Maintain and Repair

Monitor and Diagnose

Implementation and Integration

NFV/SDN

Agile

Incident Response

Automation and Robotics_2022

Cloud_FRHR

Complexity Management

Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised and rewarded. We are committed to promoting Inclusion for All with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business. We actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey.

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