IT Manager I

Advantage Tech is hiring!  We are looking for a qualified individual to join our client.

The IT Manager I – Applications will be responsible for creating a culture that provides timely performance feedback, mentorship needed to learn and grow team members, collaboration, partnership with business owners, and a highly responsive/effective team. They will lead practices to eliminate work through automation and proactive identification of impacting issues, including iterative improvement to both quality and stability as a part of the daily work. As the IT Manager I, you must be comfortable with retrospective learning along with being a champion of change as needed.

Essential Functions
Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception, through deployment, operation, and refinement.
Support services through activities such as system design consulting, integrating software and frameworks, automation creation, testing, capacity planning and implementation reviews.
Maintain stability by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
Identify and lead changes to enhance team approach to troubleshoot, resolve, apply workarounds, and ultimately apply a quality permanent solution to resolve any technical issue.
Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
Utilize technical skills to maintain optimal system efficiency, productivity, and reliability.
Practice sustainable incident response.
Lead, mentor and motivate team members to implement the department strategy and manage department workflow with guidance on departmental projects/issues, and provide coaching and development opportunities appropriate to each direct report’s individual needs
Perform all necessary management functions, including hiring, evaluations, annual increase allocations and disciplinary action as required
Communicate decisions, priorities and relevant information to team members effectively
Support budget management, planning and expenditure
Perform other duties as assigned

SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Technical:
  3+ years of experience in Agile implementation required

• 3+ years of experience in a leadership role in software development required
• 3+ years of leadership/supervisory experience required
• 3+ years of experience with Windows Server 2016 – 2019, SQL 2016 – 2019, ODBC, DB2 and Java preferred
• 3+ years of experience with Java, Opensource and API Services preferred.