Data Center Manager

Description:
Data Center Manager
Chicago - Downtown

Here's a great opportunity to join our Information Technology team, and have an important impact on our business!

Kaplan Professional is a leading provider of licensing and continuing education training, certification, professional development courses, and compliance tracking for securities, insurance, financial services, legal, IT, and real estate professionals and corporations. Kaplan Professional is a unit of Kaplan, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Washington Post Company.

Summary: The Data Center Manager is responsible for the management of the Kaplan Professional data center environments. The position manages vendor relationships including data center vendors, hardware vendors and software vendors. They will drive Infrastructure cost and budget tracking, schedule management, capacity planning, application reporting, technology purchasing, contract negotiation and documentation. This position will also be focused on developing, maintaining and testing disaster recovery strategies.

Specific Responsibilities:Responsible for managing data center environmentsManage power, internet bandwidth, rack space, inventoryManage hosting provider relationshipsManage 3rd party monitoring and managed servicesTrack costs and budgets related to data centerTrend network, power and space requirements for capacity planningProvide application monitoring and uptime metrics to internal customersCommunicate with internal customers on downtime and planned maintenanceMaintain data center documentationDomain name and SSL cert registration and managementManage physical build out of data centersDevelop SLA's and monitor adherence to SLA's.Responsible for vendor contract negotiation and purchasingResearch and evaluate vendorsPurchase technology products and servicesEnsure license compliance with software vendorsManage relationships with telecom vendors, order and track servicesDevelop, maintain and test disaster recovery strategiesWork with business units on DR strategiesMaintain vendor relationships (Sungard, etc) Document technology DR planTest DR plans with technology and business teams

Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in IT, Computers, or related fields5+ years experience in data center operations, computer hardware, system software, data communications, and telecommunicationsExperience with vendor and contract managementAbility to work beyond normal business hours to assure task completionPrior experience with Disaster Recovery planning and implementationYou'll have a critical role in our technology department, while you earn an excellent salary. You'll receive great benefits, too--health and life insurance, 401K plan, medical savings account, vacation, personal days, and more.

If you enjoy working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment that is focused on the employee and customer then apply on-line with your cover letter, resume, and salary requirements.

RESUMES WITHOUT SALARY REQUIREMENTS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED!!!

For further information, please see our website: www.kaplanprofessional.com .

***Please note that due to the expected volume of responses, we will contact only those candidates in whom we have further interest.***

Kaplan is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Salary/Benefits: Salary commensurate with experience
Kaplan's global success is highlighted by growth from $100mm USD to $1.4b USD in just 9 years. That success is directly based upon our unique ability to attract and retain highly-qualified/-motivated professionals, a group of highly-talented individuals rewarded for both individual- and team-based achievements.
We'll provide you with the tools, challenges, opportunities and rewards to take your career into a great new direction. If you want to be part of an incredible success story, and a company driven to provide high-value business solutions for world-class clients, then we're the place for you!

Job Location: Chicago, IL

Job Number: 3717BR

Company URL: http://www.kaplan.com/kaplanprofessional

Company Profile:
Learning transforms lives - welcome to Kaplan Professional!

We're a world leader in licensing, continuing education training, certification, professional development courses, and compliance tracking for students, professionals and key corporations in financial services, insurance, information technology, real estate, and legal.

Kaplan Professional is a unit of Kaplan, Inc., a worldwide education services provider and a wholly owned subsidiary of The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO). www.kaplan.com