Budgeting, Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Cloud Architecture, Data Management, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Management, Emergency Planning, Establish Priorities, External Audit, Financial Management, Information Technology & Information Systems, Internal Audit, Inventory Reports, Leadership, Management of Information Systems/Technology (MIS), Network Operations Center, Operations Management, Operations Planning, Organizational Skills, Power Outages, Purchasing/Procurement, Team Player
Duties & Responsibilities
- Coordinate with university data center management personnel and service providers to ensure that the data center hosting needs for AITS are met.
- Represent AITS in data center governance, operations, and working groups across the universities.
- Provide communication and coordination between AITS and data center management groups regarding outages, upgrades, installation, and removal of AITS equipment.
- Work with auditors and AITS personnel as needed to satisfy requests and needs of internal and external audits.
- Manage large data center projects and those related to IT infrastructure.
- Work with AITS Administration and Financial Management (AFM), trades, vendors, and purchasing on data center-related projects; and provide coordination of work, which could include communications, scheduling, and assembling budgetary information in relation to such projects.
- Work with others to maintain the Disaster Recovery (DR), Business Continuity Plan (BCP), and emergency management plans to ensure they are current and meet the needs of AITS and System Office, including generating and maintaining electronic and physical copies of the DR plan.
- Work with the team to develop and execute the DR and BCP program. This includes holding table-top exercises for DR testing; working with units to prioritize system recovery; holding training sessions for staff with identified roles in the BCP / DR plans; revising the plans as needed; coordinating the annual DR tests; reviewing and prioritization of systems and services; reconciling the plans with operations reports and inventory.
- Serve as primary lead for maintaining the AITS BCP plan.
- Manage IT operations projects following PMO processes and procedures and work with the PMO on processes and methodology related to IT Operations and data center projects.
- Communicate the desired direction, goals, concerns, and issues of the Director of Infrastructure, Cloud Architecture, and Assurance as needed in various settings, provide leadership on special projects for the Associate Vice President or Senior Associate Vice President, and perform related duties and responsibilities appropriate for a Coordinator position.
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign