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Head of Global Hosting and Storage Services

2 months ago

Singapore AEA INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS PTE. LTD. Full time
Roles & Responsibilities

International SOS seeks a Global Head of Hosting and Storage Services to oversee services across public, private, and on-premises infrastructure within the IT Shared Service organization. In this pivotal role, you will shape the technology landscape for our outsourced hosting and storage services. Your primary focus will be on driving innovation, ensuring seamless service delivery, and creating a forward-looking roadmap. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, vendors, and business leaders, you’ll strive for excellence in hosting and storage solutions.


Key responsibilities

Strategic Vision and Roadmap:

  • Drive and implement the IT Strategy – Less of Everything for all hosting and storage related services.
  • Develop and maintain a strategic vision for hosting and storage services, aligned with business goals and industry trends.
  • Create a comprehensive roadmap that outlines technology enhancements, scalability, and futureproofing

Vendor Management and Relationships:

  • Manage relationships with external vendors providing hosting and storage services.
  • Foster collaborative partnerships to optimize service delivery and innovation.

Technology Agnostic Approach:

  • Lead a team responsible for hosting and storage across various platforms and technologies.
  • Ensure independence from specific technology stacks, allowing flexibility and adaptability.

Innovation and Continuous Improvement:

  • Identify opportunities for process optimization, cost reduction, and performance enhancement.
  • Champion innovative solutions, such as cloud-native architectures, hybrid models, and automation.

Operational Excellence:

  • Collaborate with the IT Service Management to implement the ITIL processes for all hosting and storage services.
  • Balancing Business Needs and Security/Compliance Considerations: the teams must strike a balance between meeting business requirements and ensuring security and compliance.
  • Designing Consistent Processes and Systems by identifying and designing consistent tasks, forms, processes, and systems. Standardizing these elements to improve efficiency and reduce variability in their operations.
  • Defining Roles and Responsibilities clearly across teams, partners, regional IT and other stakeholders.

Service Level Management:

  • Define and monitor service level agreements (SLAs) for hosting and storage.
  • Proactively address incidents, escalations, and performance bottlenecks.

Risk Mitigation:

  • Assess risks related to hosting and storage services and implement mitigation strategies.
  • Eliminate risk by proactive risk and problem management, to increase the operational stability of the landscape.

Security and Compliance and Audits:

  • Stay and be informed about security best practices and compliance requirements, data protection, Cyber Essentials (plus) and PCI-DSS and other domains.
  • Collaborate with the Cyber Security team and the sourcing partners to meet the Cyber Security and Compliance requirements and policies at all moments in time.
  • Develop and drive the path forward on Security and Compliancy for the future, balancing risks, operational stability, and end user experience.
  • Collaborate with the audit teams on internal, external and vendor audits required during the year.

Financial Management

  • Develop, implement, and run a clear FinOps model for all private and public clouds.
  • Collaborate with the business and application teams to drive the financials spend (Opex) to optimal utilization.
  • Develop a clear annual Capex plan, based on vision, strategy, and roadmap, and execute in close cooperation with the Global Project Management Organisation.

People Management

  • Lead the Hosting and Storage team and delegate clearly and effectively.
  • Build a virtual extended team across and involving the IT teams in the Business Lines.
  • Manage the team in accordance with the International SOS processes and procedures for people management.
About you
  • A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • Minimum 8 years of experience in technology management, with a focus on hosting and storage.
  • Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams and managing vendor relationships.
  • Proven record on strategy development and implementation.
  • Experience in a wider regional organization and understand a matrix work culture. Experience in a global role is a strong plus.
  • Extensive experience in successful strategy definition and implementation.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms, data centers, and storage solutions.
  • Strong management skills and ability to drive consensus and output.
  • Excellent communication and leadership abilities.
  • Experience in Change, Incident, Problem and Capacity Management as part of the IT service management function.
  • Experience in FinOps organisation and management
  • Experience in cyber security, risk management, and compliance frameworks and standards, such as ISO 27001, GDPR, Cyber Essentials, PCI/DSS 4.0
  • Experience in zero touch automation, DevOps, CI/CD, and agile methodologies and tools.
  • Experience in Identifying and assessing potential security risks and vulnerabilities.
  • Experience in Developing IT security policies and procedures to ensure compliance with industry regulations and best practices.
  • Extensive experience in Incident, Change and Problem Management as part of the IT service management function.
  • Experience and or Certified AWS Cloud Solutions Architect and / or Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert is very favourable.
  • Strong Vendor management skills based on relationship as well as SLA.
  • Relevant certifications such as PMP, ITIL, AWS, Azure, VMWare or CISSP are advantageous
  • Can think out of the box and has a can-do attitude.

Tell employers what skills you have

Vendor Relationships
IT Service Management
Performance Enhancement
Vendor Management Skills
Operational Excellence
Strategy Development
Financial Management
Technology Management
Agile Methodologies
ISO 27001
Service Level
Adaptability
Problem Management
Service Level Management
Process Optimization
IT Strategy

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