Manager IT

Who are we? 

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 210 data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

At Equinix, we help the world’s digital leaders scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences, and transform people’s lives. Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams. 

We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills, and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment. that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.

Job Summary: Ideal candidate would be a strong Leader with an innovation mindset, problem solver, an expert communicator, and a true engineer.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for end-to-end Integration related project(s) ensuring highest quality

• Conduct requirements workshops with different stakeholders to identify and understand business problem(s)

• Mentor and lead team of 5+ Integration Specialists 

• Collaborate with team to formulate innovative solutions to experiment and implement advanced Integration solutions

• Work with large volumes of data; extract and manipulate large datasets using tools such as Nifi, Informatica CDC, TIBCO, Kafka, EMS

• Responsible for providing comprehensive input to stakeholders to support decision making

• Proactively communicates issues and risks and escalate conflicts, proposing options for resolution

• Able to drive effective conflict resolution between stakeholders

• Manages all stakeholder communications with respect to project and operations status

• In addition to building effective working relationships with stakeholders, the manager partners with stakeholders to execute against agreed-upon commitments

• Responsible for managing stakeholder escalations/priority shifts to resolution and/or senior management escalation

• Drives innovation among the teams, recognizes innovation, and helps communicate new ideas across teams

Qualifications 

• Bachelor's/Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Technology or other equivalent field experience

• 7+ years of experience in developing highly distributed software platforms/systems

• 3+ years of operational understanding of Virtualization, Containerization ecosystem including Docker & Kubernetes

• 3+ years professional experience in a software development leadership role

• A high sense of ownership, passion for Platform development

• Experience in API Development Platform like TIBCO and API Management platforms like Apigee, MuleSoft is preferrable

• Experience in RESTful API development and GraphQL

• Experience optimizing a high traffic website for robustness and scale-out

Architecture

• Experience in technologies like Cassandra, Kafka, Oracle database & JMS is a plus

• Expertise in troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems

• Experience in providing global support coverage is a plus

• Experience with AWS Cloud & Networking Concepts is a plus

• Show pride of ownership and strive for excellence in everything undertaken

• Exhibit a high level of curiosity, keeping abreast of the latest trends & technologies

Equinix is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.​