IT, Manager - #968851

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and direction to the Infrastructure, SRE, and Operational Readiness teams.
• Develop and execute a comprehensive strategy that aligns with Synopsys's objectives, ensuring cross-functional collaboration and cohesion among specialized teams.
• Foster an environment of technical innovation and excellence, encouraging your teams to explore and implement best practices in infrastructure management, operational readiness, and reliability engineering.
• Lead and manage IT vulnerability management program.
• Establish and refine processes and capabilities to respond to critical vulnerabilities and vulnerability risk that impacts Synopsys.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to generate reporting metrics for vulnerability management across the enterprise.
• Collaborate with the various teams and platform owners on all vulnerability management and reporting.
• Ensure departmental alignment to security standards and strategy.
• Maintain vulnerability management processes and policies using a risk-based priority methodology.
• Communicate vulnerabilities, solutions, and enterprise trends to all levels of an enterprise - both technical and non-technical resources
• Advise IT teams regarding patch notifications, initial risk assessment, eligible systems, and deployment requirements.

Leadership skills

• Strategic thinking, strategic planning, needs to have the bigger picture in mind and keep an eye on the overall mission, vision, and objectives.
• Ability to develop a strong technology strategy, understand complex business problems and lead in crisis situations.
• Ability to align IT with the organization objectives and strategies, help create value of the IT system and become a strategic business partner, while achieving the overall goals.
• Outcome based and impact-based delivery - drives things end to end with the desired outcome and Yes If mindset.
• Strong collaboration skills and communication skills to work with others, create synergies with global teams and stakeholders adopt best practices in the region, Strong communication skills Strong people management skills.

Technical skills

• Experience in handling large 24.7 global deliveries in the past.
• Experience working on and managing teams working on Linux, Compute, storage, network Database, Cloud, Automation, Self-service portal, Networking services etc.
• Bachelor's degree with minimum of 12+ years of experience in IT infrastructure & operations.
• Proven experience in IT operations, DevOps, or a similar role, with increasing levels of responsibility
• Demonstrated success in leading engineering teams across different domains, such as infrastructure, SRE, or similar areas.
• Strong technical foundation, with the ability to engage deeply on technical topics related to cloud infrastructure, software reliability, and operational practices.
• Proficiency in ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) processes and frameworks

People management

• Hiring, Mentoring, Upskilling, Training /Certification, succession planning
• Build leadership skills in the region to drive strategic discussions/ initiatives.
• Strong governance and compliance (in alignment with organization guidelines)