Manager, Virtualization Engineering

What You’ll Do:

Lead a team of highly talented Virtualization engineers to facilitate the administration of the OCC server environments. Provide team leadership required to support a large, complex computing environment and an increasing transition to infrastructure in Cloud. Assist in driving “infrastructure as code” mentality throughout the organization and demonstrate a passion for automation concepts and tools. Utilize customer service skills while acting as a technical resource to internal departments and system users. 

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Manage day to day operations Virtualization and underlying infrastructure.
• Provide status reporting (availability, performance capacity utilization)
• Create and maintain process & policy documentation
• Drive automation for UCS and VMWARE environments
• Develop team to align with the OCC future technology roadmap
• Forecast System demands and recommend upgrades, expansions and reconfiguration
• Resource planning
• Provide input into strategic compute infrastructure plans and help drive alignment with application teams, security and business
• Collaborate with application support teams to drive improvements in communication, architecture, and performance
• Act as a liaison for customer relations and represent server teams
• Manage enterprise server environment related projects
• Lead audit and security responsibilities that include routine reviews and reporting of technology policies and security compliance
• Ensure all server systems comply with OCC regulatory requirements
• Work with auditors to remediate and closeout all remediation, regulatory, and audit findings
• Draft proposals to tackle technology challenges and work with vendors to provide best solution at optimal cost
• Responsible for change management process for server infrastructure
• Use good judgment and escalate when necessary and keep management informed
• Performance Management and development of the team members

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Manage a team

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• Excellent communication and people management skills
• Ability to work effectively with clients, technical staff, consultants and vendors
• Ability to work well under pressure and within deadlines
• Experience with disaster recovery testing and creating technical/process documentation
• Ability to communicate well and manage a team located in multiple cities
• Good consultative, communication, analytical, and judgment skills
• Strong background in VMWARE and UCS administration
• Working knowledge of Linux/Windows and Storage infrastructure
• Working knowledge and experience in Cloud Infrastructure

Technical Skills & Background

• VMWare virtualization
• UCS
• Windows / Linux Operating Systems
• EMC storage
• Cloud technologies (AWS)

Certifications

• None Required

Education & Training

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related discipline
• Minimum 7 years of experience in virtualization administration
• Minimum 3 years of experience in managing people and leading projects
• Experience in a regulated / financial industry a plus

Who We Are

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

What We Offer

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:

A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work

Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education

Student Loan Repayment Assistance

Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely

Generous PTO and Parental leave

Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision