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Head of Web Operations
Forbes
Jersey City, NJ, United States
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Forbes Media is seeking an individual to fill the position of Head of Web Operations. In this role, they will be responsible for leading the team that is responsible for the 24/7 availability of the Forbes.com website, hosted and enterprise client sites and all supporting infrastructure. A successful candidate must demonstrate a history of strong leadership, a comprehensive technical background and well developed management skills. They will be expected to work directly with other teams and departments, ensure technology issues are resolved to completion and provide management support to the office of the Chief Technology Officer.
Responsibilities:
• Provide direction and foster best practices to a team of systems engineers
• Maintain overall ownership of 300+ virtual and physical device data center environment
• Assist with incident resolution and root cause analysis
• Support the release management process to ensure operational stability
• Initiate and oversee projects geared towards continually improving and enhancing our infrastructure
• Work closely with outside vendors to negotiate competitive pricing for relevant and current technology solutions
• Ownership of capacity planning, performance testing and tuning for scalability
Required Skill Set:
• Experience managing or leading a team of IT professionals.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency with cloud hosting solutions like AWS or Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with a modern configuration management solution such as Puppet or Chef
• Must be able to demonstrate proficiency with the tools and practices needed to secure an enterprise environment
• Abstract problem-solving skills and intellectual curiosity
• Must have strong sense of commitment and responsibility
• Able to use office suites, like MS Office, to produce documentation, project plans and diagrams
Desired Skill Set:
• Proficiency with VMware
• Experience supporting MongoDB and MySQL
• Competency with application and server monitoring software, such as Nagios, Ganglia, or similar
• Familiarity with code repository applications like Git or SVN
• Experience with Varnish Cache
• Experience with automated code deployment tools, like Hudson or Jenkins
• Practical experience with performance tuning and capacity planning at the application and server level
Forbes Media is a global media, branding and technology company, with a focus on news and information about business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership and affluent lifestyles. The company publishes Forbes, Forbes Asia, and Forbes Europe magazines as well as Forbes.com. The Forbes brand today reaches more than 94 million people worldwide with its business message each month through its magazines and 37 licensed local editions around the globe, Forbes.com, TV, conferences, research, social and mobile platforms. Forbes Media’s brand extensions include conferences, real estate, education, financial services, and technology license agreements.
Forbes is an equal opportunity employer.