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\nSection 1: Position Summary\nThis role provides a strategic and service driven focus in leading the desktop services team that services all Ascensus offices and is responsible for the overall Associate IT experience, including driving the future direction in technology and process. The leader in this role is required to supervise a large group of associates by demonstrating a strong balance of technical knowledge and leadership skills critical to participating in the strategic direction of the teams and collaboration with peers.  This position will be the primary vendor relationship owner with outsourced services providing IT service desk delivery.\nThe leader of this team must ensure that the highest level of support are the drivers underscoring the client service mindset of this team and that the team work together to drive organizational outcomes and changes to support growth and scale efficiencies.  The ability to be flexible and agile in thinking is critical to achieving quality and timeliness in delivery of service as set by the Technology organization. This position will have advanced knowledge of enterprise IT best practices including the latest in ITSM platforms and ITIL focus.  Expertise in Windows and Mac desktop environments, and advanced knowledge of networking, server environment, virtual desktop delivery, and emerging solutions will be a requirement for this role\nThis leadership role will be responsible to partner with Human Resources to manage adequate staffing levels commensurate with variable volumes related to seasonality and changing business conditions.\nAccountability for maintaining a culture of continuous learning; foster an environment of accountability, feedback, and team collaboration\nConduct performance conversations and reviews and other HR related practices that are critical to developing talent.\nThe Ascensus Director of Desktop Services will be required to efficiently and effectively manage a sizeable budget and work with leaders across finance and technology in forecasting projected spend. \nSection 2: Job Functions, Essential Duties and Responsibilities\n* Create a plan, establish policies, guidelines, metrics to guarantee high level of associate satisfaction with desktop service delivery\n* Collect and analyze Help Desk metrics for departmental learning and process improvement\n* Maintain and improve system monitoring and failure procedures, to proactively resolve issues impacting our associates.\n* Establish a hardware strategy and identify and document hardware standards across the organization.\n* Establish and maintain a centralized desktop, peripheral, and application inventory, ensuring focus on license management.\n* Manage IT vendors, including reviewing terms and conditions of contracts and ensuring contractual requirements are met and returning value to the organization\n* Establish analytics-based staffing model for scaling team to keep pace with company growth\n* Responsible for A/V meeting delivery and endpoint management\n* Work with Security Operations to formulate security recommendations and design security services related to desktop services environments\n* Implement technical solutions to contractual requirements supporting, , SOC I, SOC2, and other frameworks\n* Partner with business teams and lead responses to external audits, penetration tests and vulnerability assessments\n* Perform project leadership tasks on select desktop services projects, including periodically delivering presentations and updates on IT strategy and projects\n* Evaluate, recommend, and deliver on enhanced desktop solutions, including automation opportunities and delivery efficiencies.\n* Responsible for process development, documentation, and continuous improvement in the desktop environment, with a DevOps focus on service delivery.\n* Evaluate applicable new technology, build consensus and plan to introduce cost justifiable technology\n* Research and stay current on IT strategy and operations, best practices and function as a subject matter expert in these areas; maintain an adaptable posture on technology changes to keep Ascensus current\n* Facilitate the creation of cohesive support documentation.  Train teams in new technologies and processes.  Evaluate support needs and develop effective support materials and monitors.\n* Work with the recruiting team to attract, on-board and retain diverse top talent\n* This position will lead the Desktop Services departments, and work closely with other IT leaders\n* Responsible for protecting, securing, and proper handling of all confidential data held by Ascensus to ensure against unauthorized access, improper transmission, and/or unapproved disclosure of information that could result in harm to Ascensus or our clients.\n* Our I-Client service philosophy and our Core Values of People Matter, Quality First and Integrity Always® should be visible in your actions on a day to day basis showing your support of our organizational culture.\n\n\nSupervision  \n* Lead a team of technology professionals who are geographically dispersed office and remote environments\n* Ensure all associates have appropriate goals and development/training plans in place; manage and mentor the team; be a conduit for development resources and support\n* Responsible for ensuring that team is meeting and exceeding expectations in regards to performance, meeting defined metrics/benchmarks, and that standards and processes are followed and protocol observed to provide effective customer service and meet requirements through an ITIL framework.\n* Conduct regular team meetings and one-on-one meetings with team members\n* Focus on the Associate Experience and drive the organizations noble purpose, business strategy, and core values to each and every associate on your team as measured by associate engagement survey scores and business results\n* Develop people and teams through coaching, mentoring, and feedback\n* Proactively implement strategies to improve associate satisfaction and deliver results\n\n\nSection 3:  Experience, Skills, Knowledge Requirements \n* Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience\n* 5+ years in IT leadership role; 10 years in IT operations/desktop support/service experience\n* 3+ years of hands-on experience with ServiceNow or similar ITSM/ITAM platform\n* Expert level knowledge of desktop services resources, services, and applications appropriate for an enterprise environment\n* Proven expertise in the acquisition, installation, maintenance, and management of enterprise IT assets\n* Advanced knowledge of enterprise wireless device management\n* Proven expertise in a Microsoft enterprise environment, including Active Directory management\n* Experience managing geographically dispersed teams\n* Excellent organization skills, proven analytical abilities and decision-making skills\n* Excellent consultative, verbal/written communication skills, presentation and analytical ability\n* Excels in a result focused organization\n* Exceptional leadership, mentoring, coaching, management and interpersonal skills\n* Conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.\n* Passion for quality and continuous improvement of processes and software\n* Ability to work collaboratively with other leaders and associates to further the posture of the Ascensus IT Service delivery and technical posture of the organization\n* Strong overall sense of ownership\n* Flexibility throughout the year with a focus on changing business needs and unexpected situations\n* Prior project management and/or process improvement experience\n\n\nPreferred technology skills:\n* Call center and workforce management solutions (inContact, NICE, etc.)\n* Desktop deployment software, strategies, and execution (Microsoft Intune/AutoPilot)\n* Microsoft Windows patch management technologies (SCCM, BCM)\n* O365 and other cloud desktop services\n* Advanced Active Directory concepts/skills\n* Mac administration and management tools (JAMF, Addigy, etc.)\n* Cisco-based networking\n* PowerShell\n* DevOps/Automation toolsets\n* Enterprise architecture and technical design experience\n* ITIL Service/process\n\n\nWe are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer\n \n\nAscensus is a place to have a career, not just a job. As the largest US independent retirement and college savings services provider, we put our focus on people.  Our culture is guided by sound principles, is committed to high standards, operates with transparency, and welcomes diversity. When you join our team, you get to go to work every day knowing that you help over 10 million Americans save for retirement and college.\n\n Ascensus is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, religion, age, citizenship, sex, marital or veteran status, disability or handicap, sexual orientation or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Ascensus also takes affirmative action to employ, and advance in employment, qualified women, minorities, and covered veterans. Ascensus also makes reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities, in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state laws \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Executive, DevOps, Finance, Cloud, Microsoft and HR jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nEMS Software is looking for a Director of Cloud Ops & Security who will aid us in the ongoing transformation of our product offering from an on-premise solution to one having a hybrid offering with a pure SaaS presence. \n\nYou will be at the center of a vital growth initiative.\n\nYou’ll join a company that serves 2,500 great organizations like Accenture, Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, Harvard and Yale University. Our customers have millions of people using our software to manage events, reserve spaces to meet, work and study; and to analyze and optimize their use of real estate.\n\nYour role combines the operational responsibility for cloud ops and security, plus the strategic responsibility for enabling and encouraging our product and sales teams to promote our offering to existing and new customers alike. This is the perfect role for a technical leader who wants the high visibility of driving adoption\n\nSo, where will you focus your energy? \n\nDelivery\n\n\n* Drive customer satisfaction (DevOps + external) by providing world-class application availability and protection of customer data\n\n* Direct the team to perform system setup, system administration, incident resolution, problem management, configuration management, change management, security monitoring, security management, capacity planning, availability management and disaster recovery\n\n* Establish performance monitoring and response processes\n\n* Ensure efficiency and predictability of deployments and upgrades\n\n* Roll out and enforce best-in-class security practices for greater customer success\n\n\n\n\nProcess\n\n\n* Assess and refine our Agile/SCRUM process by collaborating with Product Management, Sales and Support\n\n* Understand and improve our existing operations and planning processes to elevate the output and quality of our operations team\n\n\n\n\nDirection\n\n\n* Direct and develop our operational resources by prioritizing and delegating across multiple projects and initiatives\n\n* Optimize resource efficiency and help technical leads and team leads continuously make better tradeoffs\n\n* Create a security roadmap for an organization with enterprise grade customers\n\n\n\n\nLeadership\n\nTechnical\n\n\n* Understand the technical decisions that are being made by your operations team and synthesize  their decisions into  your decision-making process\n\n* Leverage your technical leadership to refine Product Management’s 6-month roadmap into tangible, and technically practical deliverables \n\n* Seek out meaningful certifications and security measures to increase our customers confidence in the delivery of our SaaS solution \n\n* Adopt a CI/CD mindset that is more advanced (and more beneficial) than our current DevOps mentality to accelerate deployments, reduce cost of ownership, and maintain quality\n\n* Understand and simplify the complexities of maintaining both on-premise installations as well as SaaS installation of the same technology stack\n\n\n\n\nTeam\n\n\n* Understand the skills and capacity of your team and how to best utilize them to achieve our goals \n\n* Identify and employ data to empower your team’s continuous improvement\n\n* Develop career paths for your engineers and provide opportunities and feedback that will help them pursue those paths\n\n\n\n\nOrganizational\n\n\n* Analyze departmental spending and collaborate with Product Management to capture ROI; evangelize findings to senior leadership\n\n* Coordinate cross-functional dependencies with a 360° leader mentality (i.e., an ability to influence up, down and laterally across the organization)  \n\n* Understand the tradeoffs and impact of decisions at the resource, technical and product level\n\n\n\n\nRequired Experience\n\n\n* 5+ years of experience managing cloud operations experience with and strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, or other cloud platforms\n\n* 2+ years of experience managing a team of at least 5 engineers \n\n* 2+ years as an operations engineer yourself\n\n* 3+ years of CI/CD experience\n\n* 1+ years of experience working in an agile development environment\n\n* Expertise in cloud security compliance, including experience with security audits\n\n* Experience hosting 300+ customers in the cloud; enterprise customers highly preferred\n\n* Ability to communicate verbally and in writing with both technical and business people in terms that they understand\n\n\n\n\nEMS Software is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants are considered for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, ancestry, marital or veteran status. We are committed to hiring a diverse and talented workforce, supporting integrity in the workplace and an entrepreneurial atmosphere. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to InfoSec, Cloud, Executive, Ops, DevOps, Amazon, Microsoft, Senior, Sales, SaaS and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n