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IT Operations Manager-SMSS-LA | Sony | Los Angeles, CA

Sony is one of the most recognized and respected brand names in the world. Sony is the leading manufacturer of premier, state-of-the-art audio, video, communications and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.  Its creative, music, motion picture, television, computer, entertainment and online businesses, make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies for the broadband era.

Sony Media Software & Services (SMSS) is a division of Sony Corporation of America, a leading entertainment company of audio, video, communications and information technology products, for consumer and professional markets. The Network Platform group for SMSS provides infrastructure systems for services such as registration, billing, customer service tools, and storefront management tools for PLAYSTATION®Network.

IT Operations Manager Los Angeles, CA

The Manager, IT Operations will be the local IT contact for the Los Angeles office. This position will be responsible for assuring that all employees have the tools they need to efficiently complete their tasks. This position will help oversee desktop support across SMSS and assure all tickets are completed in a timely and high-level manner. This position will report to the Director, IT Operations.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Main IT contact for Los Angeles office
  • Ensure users have the tools they need to complete their tasks efficiently
  • Project manage and work with rest of the IT and network teams to make enhancements and solve issues
  • Plan and architect Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
  • Plan and architect BMC Remedy
  • Help oversee desktop support team across organization
  • Help oversee systems support of campus and encoding operations group
  • Participate as an integral and active member in the strategic planning process of the enterprise
  • Promote and oversee relationships between the organization's IT resources and external entities (e.g., clients, vendors, and other business partners).
  • Help review invoices for all offices
  • Assist with reducing costs across the organization
  • Perform root cause analysis on persistent or major server related hardware, software & application related problems.
  • Help manage, maintain and support a multi-location e-mail, messaging, tape backup and storage infrastructure
  • Participate in on-call rotation and respond to emergencies 7/24/365
  • Travel to other SMSS offices upon request

Skills:
  • 5-7 years of direct IT experience in a campus-based environment.  At least 2-3 years management experience.
  • Previous desktop support management experience preferred
  • In-depth experience with performance tuning, monitoring systems, statistics/metrics collection, and disaster recovery planning
  • Ability to foster teamwork in high-paced environment
  • Ability to multi-task several important projects
  • Strong working knowledge (including the ability to setup, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot) of the following:
    • Active Directory
    • LAN/WAN architecture
    • Exchange 2000 / 2003 / 2007
    • VMware ESX / Infrastructure
    • Microsoft Office SharePoint
    • BMC Remedy
    • PGP
    • Ghost
    • Veritas Netbackup
    • Network Appliance, EMC Storage, Isilon
    • RSA solutions
    • Microsoft Systems Center Configuration Manager
    • Atlassian JIRA and Confluence
  • Strong experience with encoding environments
  • Strong knowledge of digital video systems and protocols such as MPEG, DVB, etc.
  • Ability to leverage a thorough understanding of the interactions between systems to not only troubleshoot problems, but also identify performance-tuning opportunities
  • Programming background in multitude of computing environments, Linux, Solaris, Windows and Real-time embedded systems preferred
  • Previous experience installing, testing, and operating digital video equipment in the video / network path preferred
  • Experience with digital video systems including architectures and equipment such as digital video set top boxes, PS3s, multiplexers, head-end equipment, conditional access (security) and digital video servers preferred
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills with a proven ability to interface with internal/external customers, vendors, management etc. in both formal and informal settings
  • Ability to work independently with little supervision

Education:
  • B.S./B.A. in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical/Computer Engineering or equivalent experience preferred.
  • Technical certifications (MCSE, CCNA, etc.) preferred

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All persons shall have the opportunity to be considered for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, obligation to serve in the armed forces of the United States, citizenship, disabled veteran status, Vietnam, era status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

To apply for this position, please copy and paste the following link into your browser address bar:

http://sony.contacthr.com/13548447

or submit your resume and salary requirements through our homepage at

http://sony.hodesiq.com/careers/apply_online_1.asp?jobid=1605583



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