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Cognizant is looking for professionals with a passion for technology to join our IT Infrastructure Services (ITIS) Practice and work from our delivery centers in Bangalore, Pune or Kolkata.
Practice Manager - IT Infrastructure Services
You will be the owner of large-scale IT Infrastructure management services programs. You will be responsible to deliver Remote Management services for client data centers, networks and software infrastructures of large enterprises. You will work with client organizations to ensure that the overall program and contract objectives are met on an ongoing basis. You will be responsible for delivery of services with teams located onsite at client location as well as offshore in multiple delivery centers. You will also be responsible for people management within the team including hiring decisions, overall motivation and morale as well as maintaining resource utilization and quality.

You will have more than 12 years experience in IT Infrastructure services and a thorough grasp of ITIL, BS15000 and BS7799. You will have prior experience running at least three large scale SLA based infrastructure services programs. Your skills should include capability to manage senior clients, establish and implement project management policies, guidelines and structured methodologies, including scope management, negotiating contracts.

Delivery Manager - IT Infrastructure Services
You will be responsible for managing SLA based remote management service contracts on IT Service Desk, Datacenter Management and Software infrastructure support on diverse technology areas. You will understand and implement processes based on BS15000 framework and continuously implement service improvement programs and align IT Infrastructure services to clients' business benefits. You will ensure that the project costs are managed as per the budgets.

You will also have prior experience of at least 8 years in managing long term contracts for IT infrastructure services for medium to large scale enterprises. Your skills should include client management, project scope management, Contract management, application of remote management tools and technologies, people management along with excellent written and verbal communication capability.

You will have an undergraduate degree in computer science, computer engineering, physical sciences or electrical engineering. ITIL certification is desirable.

IT Infrastructure Architect
You will provide architecture expertise and technology direction for large-scale remote infrastructure management, system integration, network integration, infrastructure consolidation and migration programs comprised of multiple projects. You will also work closely with the delivery managers to ensure implementation of architectural vision and meeting client's requirements.
You will have more than 8 years of infrastructure architecting experience with expertise on a particular technology area - Servers, Storage, Databases, middleware, voice and data networking, messaging and IT service management. You will have experience with design and deployment of various products and sub technologies in your chosen technology area, like Microsoft, Sun, IBM, Cisco, BEA, Oracle etc.

IT Infrastructure services specialists

You will be responsible to design, deploy or manage our clients' IT infrastructure components on any of the following technologies. You will be having extensive hands on experience in configuring, monitoring and administering these products and technologies on production and development environments. You will have experience in the range of 3 to 6 years in delivering IT infrastructure services.

Microsoft Technologies
Windows 2000/ 2003/ XP, IIS, Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, SMS, MOM, .NET, SMS-Design, Implementation and Administration

Unix/Storage Technologies
(Design, Integration and Administration) HP-UX, Sun Solaris, AIX, Veritas, Legato, Tivoli Storage Manager, Hitachi, EMC, NetApps

Database Administration
Oracle and Oracle Apps/ Sybase/ MS SQL/ Mainframe DB2/ UDB DB2

Middleware administration
IBM Websphere, BEA Weblogic, MQ Series, Vitria

Enterprise/ Management Systems
(Management and deployment) Remedy/ BMC Patrol/ CA Unicenter/ IBM Tivoli,/ HP Openview

Network/ Security
Design, Audit, Administration and Management LAN/WAN, VoIP, Videoconferencing, Firewalls (Check Point/ PIX), IDS, Antivirus, VPN, Netigrity, SiteMinder, Wireless LAN

Messaging
Lotus Notes, iPlanet, MS Exchange 2000/ 2003 - Design, Implementation and Administration

ERP Administration
SAP R3 Basis administrator

Mainframe Technologies
(Administration) OS - 390, CICS, AS400, IDMS, VAX-VMS, Teradate

Application production support
IBM Mainframe, UNIX, Internet Technologies, RDBMS

IT Service Management

ITIL process, BSI 5000, Six Sigma, Security Services & BSMCertifications in atleast one or more of the listed areas would be desirable - MCSE/OCP/ SCSA/ SCNA/ CCNA/ CCNP/ CCIE/ CCSA/ CCSE/ CISSP/ CISA/ BS7799/ BS 15000



Mail your cover letter and resume with preference of location to: itiscareers@cognizant.com