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IT Infrastructure- Cloud Adoption

Mode: Full-time position

Region: SA

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Description
Our client, a leading South African mobile telecom provider, is looking for a General Manager -IT Infrastructure.

The Mission/ Core purpose of the Job

The General Manager: IT Infrastructure is accountable for the IT Infrastructure vision, strategy and value, realisation management with attention to the infrastructure evolution towards cloud capabilities and convergence of infrastructure for IT and network workloads. The role is responsible for defining the target infrastructure landscape, articulate the roadmap and oversee the delivery plans to support business processes and services across the enterprise through the effective leadership and orchestration of people, products, partners and relevant processes.
Key area of focus is the development of robust relationships with all the relevant stakeholders to support the transformation agenda across the various Business units.

The General Manager: Infrastructure will be accountable to achieve the following objectives:

  • Sets the Infrastructure mission and vision to foster a business-oriented culture and mindset
  • Understanding the current status and being in charge of the internal productivity environment of overall infrastructure (processes, procedures, policies, KPIs, matrix and compliance, efficient use of resources, adoption of virtualization)
  • Defines Cloud adaption strategy, Cloud migration, Cloud Strategy/execution and leads Digital transformation (virtualization), Strategy for internal application, websites and mobile.
  • Strategy Data Center: facilitate successful migration of applications and infrastructure; define future/actions for the Data Center: offload or not
  • Owns the creation and execution of the digital workplace strategy including collaboration, automation, service and asset management,
  • Provides implementation leadership working with the Technology teams in Group and Opcos on the plans and the governance required to prioritize resources (including budget), optimize returns on investments (e.g. via automation, cost optimization and quality management) and ensure the delivery of the agreed outcomes,
  • Provides strategic direction, guidance and oversight for the infrastructure architecture, engineering and operations (incl capacity planning) activities,
  • Oversees Infrastructure Capex and Opex across Group and OpCos,
  • Enables innovation and seeks to leverage the relevant technology trends (e.g. Robotic Process automation (RPA), artificial intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), blockchain, edge computing) that can create 
  • Works closely with the Group Supply Chain Management towards the appropriate sourcing, strategy, supports cost optimization and license agreement initiatives, leads technical assessments of Group Request For Proposals, supports OpCos’ infrastructure procurement, activities and runs the strategic vendor and partner relationship management for key providers.


Key Deliverables

  • Accountable for the IT Infrastructure vision, strategy and convergence of infrastructure for IT and to deliver and oversee the operation of on-premise virtualized infrastructure to host Telco and IT workloads.
  • He is responsible for defining the target infrastructure landscape and accountable to achieve development of the IT infrastructure technology and maintain the portfolio of the approved infrastructure partners
  • Has to define the Cloud adoption strategy and delivers Cloud transformation initiatives  (e.g. 7R disposition for key applications in conjunction with the technology strategy team, migration of selected existing workloads to cloud in a cost-effective manner, cloud native application roadmap for new applications)
  • Provides implementation leadership and Oversees Infrastructure Capex and Opex across Group and OpCos and guidance to the Cloud COE
  • Manage the IT requirements of Manco (e.g. hardware infrastructure, end user computing, collaboration and office environment and others)
  • Drive the development and adoption of standards relevant to the on-premise infrastructure and cloud infrastructure across the organization.
Professional background
The candidate has to be very high-experienced in IT Infrastructure and has to be EE eligible.


Education:
  • Minimum 4-year Academic Degree with Honours (B Eng / BSc Degree Preferred)
  • MBA / Masters advantageous
  • English, French and Arabic (as advantage)
Experience:
  • Minimum 6 – 10 years of Senior Management Experience
  • Minimum 5 years of IT Infrastructure experience
  • Cloud technology and migration experience would advantageous
  • Process Digitisation experience would advantageous
  • Experience in drafting policies.
  • Work across diverse cultures and geographies
  • Proven track record of business improvement.
Competencies:

  • Seniority Level in IT infrastructure expertise with proven and solid experiences in Infrastructure Strategy.
  • Cloud technologies and architectural consideration a must
  • External partnership management and negotiation
  • strong stakeholder management skills: both internal and external
  • Financial modelling and budgeting
  • Huge content knowledge in Data Centre experience (policy, architecture, technologies, regulation)
  • Project management
  • Wide experience in collaborating within Multi-national environment and strong Team leadership
  • Excellent verbal and written communications in English at C-level
  • Business Acumen, Problem Solving, Information processing, Influencing others
  • Data interpretation, Judgement, Continuous improvement, Reporting
  • Experience in Telcom is not critical but nice-to-have

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