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Sr Principal Engineer (Infrastructure)
CBS
New York, NY, United States
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ABOUT US:
CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS.A and CBS) is a mass media company that creates and distributes industry-leading content across a variety of platforms to audiences around the world. The Company has businesses with origins that date back to the dawn of the broadcasting age as well as new ventures that operate on the leading edge of media. CBS owns the most-watched television network in the U.S. and one of the world’s largest libraries of entertainment content, making its brand - "the Eye" - one of the most recognized in business. The Company’s operations span virtually every field of media and entertainment, including cable, publishing, radio, local TV, film, outdoor advertising, and interactive and socially responsible media. CBS’s businesses include CBS Television Network, The CW (a joint venture between CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. Entertainment), Showtime Networks, CBS Sports Network, TVGN (a joint venture between CBS Corporation and Lionsgate), Smithsonian Networks, Simon & Schuster, CBS Television Stations, CBS Radio, CBS Outdoor, CBS Television Studios, CBS Global Distribution Group (CBS Studios International and CBS Television Distribution), CBS Interactive, CBS Consumer Products, CBS Home Entertainment, CBS Films and CBS EcoMedia.
DESCRIPTION:
This position will work closely with Enterprise Technology Services VPs, the Corporate IT CFO and the Business Unit CIOs to perform necessary planning and analysis with the goal of crafting game-changing strategies to move the business forward. These strategies in turn will help direct a portfolio of projects with an associated $100M in spend planned over the next 5 years. Among others, a "Cloud First" strategy will be implemented with the help of this position. The ideal candidate for this Principal Engineer position at CBS will be a self-motivated team player able to operate independently and as a member of a matrixed team. Another key component of the role will be working closely with IT Finance to facilitate multi-year financial planning.
The Sr Principal Engineer will collaborate closely with other Corporate IT personnel and should be comfortable and have experience working with VPs and C-level executives. This position requires experience working with multiple hardware and software platforms and being comfortable working in complex heterogeneous environments. This role requires deep yet broad experience in a variety of IT disciplines and financial planning. Also required is the ability to communicate ideas and solutions clearly to technical and functional stakeholders both written and orally.
Responsibilities:
• Facilitates the creation and management of technology roadmaps which align to business projects, priorities, and investments which supports the 3-5 year vision of how technology can assist the business with transformation, growth, and supports overall business strategy and target metrics
• Work with executive staff to understand requirements, risks and critical success factors
• Project scoping and requirements gathering; production of detailed functional design documents and budget estimates; provide governance and oversight to the IT organization to ensure that project align to standards and strategic direction
• Create compelling business cases which clearly demonstrate value proposition and include success criteria
• Participate in problem management by bringing technical expertise and troubleshooting to chronic problem areas of the technical landscape; develop action plans and manage their execution to eliminate future occurrences
• Provides ongoing reporting, review, and communications on strategy execution and alignment on the development of the business
• Insure business unit needs are represented in the long term vision of platform technologies and solutions
• Responsible for the technology portfolio management through the lifecycle including: Planning, Upgrades, Replacement and Sunset.
• Maintain an expert level of knowledge in area of expertise by maintaining certifications current, attending seminars or though other related activities
• Assist in analyzing and forecasting capacity for the different environments, provide growth/capacity projections and make recommendations to leadership
• Establish and cultivate strong business relationships with vendors to ensure the best support is received and to leverage all available resources from our technology partners
• Provide assistance vetting SOW’s and creating capital requests
• Mentor less knowledgeable/experienced Infrastructure team members as needed
QUALIFICATIONS:
Required:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance or Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent work experience in related field
• Graduate Degree in Business or Finance highly desired.
• 7-10 years’ experience in key infrastructure leadership roles (i.e. Operations, Networking, etc)
• Strong financial acumen required
• Highly proficient in the use of Excel. Proficient in PowerPoint and Visio.
• Experience with adoption of Cloud technologies
• Leadership role (or other significant role) in Cloud transformation highly desirable
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills enabling cross-functional effectiveness
• Demonstrated ability to craft short-term and long-term strategies in a highly complex landscape of technologies
• Experience driving operational improvements and/or service improvement
• Management experience leading a team or department
• Experience with Offshore resourcing
• ITIL certification highly desirable
• Deep technical knowledge in several of the following:
• VMware architecture, including ESX hypervisors, vCenter Server, VMware, SRM, VDI, vCOPS.
• Monitoring and Logging tools and strategies for management and troubleshooting
• Linux, Unix, and Windows Operating Systems
• Storage technologies, Fibre Channel, FCoE, iSCSI, CiFS, NFS, flash, RAID
• TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, HTTP, FTP, and other common protocols
• Database platforms including Oracle and MS SQL Server
Preferred:
Expert Excel skills
EEO STATEMENT:
Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled