About the company
Headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany, this company is one of the world's leading manufacturers of automobiles and commercial vehicles. Founded in 1937, it has grown to become the largest carmaker in Europe. The company operates 114 production facilities in 17 European countries and 10 countries in the Americas, Asia, and Africa, employing around 684,000 people worldwide.
Responsibilities
IT Infrastructure Services Specialist is responsible for the technical operations including implement and manage technical projects in alignment with organizational goals, primary responsibility for the security management and audit compliance of IT Assets and services, maintain organization information systems while maintaining and implementing security to protect the organization’s data and ensuring the company has a suitable disaster recovery policy and adequate contingency plans.
IT Plan
Create Infrastructure standards and target architecture documentations
To manage governance for infrastructure service and IT service management process
To manage IT resource such as budget, workload and IT asset in the Japanese subsidiary of the company
IT Delivery
Review proposed project solutions based on infrastructure standards.
Collaborate to develop infrastructure & security standards for IT Infrastructure services
Procure and prepare and optimize the necessary IT resources (hardware, software, services, vendors, etc.) that meet the requirements of the requester.
Support the project from an IT perspective to meet business requirements.
IT Run
Properly maintain & manage & optimize infrastructure services including network, server, database & other middleware operations.
Design and manage disaster recovery and other business continuity related services
Managing and track vendors performing operations
Main Responsibility
IT Infra Operations
Manage the IT Infra Operations, and supplier Team responsible for the IT Operations and help desk, ensure service quality as per the group standards
Maintain current knowledge of technical innovations in technology infrastructure, and work with the team to develop a plan to utilize these technologies as appropriate
Acts as a trusted advisor, and builds and maintains relationships with other IT leaders and business executives to develop a clear understanding of business needs
Monitor metrics, activities and issues to come up with service improvements
Manage IT Infra Projects (i.e. VGJ DR Site Implementation etc.) including application environment updates / migration, existing system enhancements, new system development.
Review requirements, planning and manage schedule and milestones
Vendor/Stakeholder management
Budget management (estimate and manage cost)
Project Governance
Risk and issue Management
Vendor management
Develop sourcing strategy and execute strategy as part of project / maintenance related activities from infrastructure perspective
QMS, ISMS, IT and other related Audits
Due to enhancement of corporate governance, as its one aspect, QMS & ISMS activities need to be taken care of company-wide.
Exclusively, target goal is to meet auditor’s requirement.1. QMS: Pass regular audit (internal/external)
2. ISMS: Pass target score “3.0”
3. Group IT Audit : Pass
Fully understand requirement based on target maturity
Clarify what can be done/cannot be done in short/mid-term period
Standardize and maintain document content & quality, focusing on consistency
Document management (Creation, Update, Finalization)
Provide well-prepared guidance to divisional stakeholders & check its quality
Standards and procedures
Support in establishing standard ways of work that ensures the technical teams work together in a consistent manner.
Support in monitoring performance of IT processes to determine the productivity levels, and to make recommendations for improving the IT processes
Requirements
COMPETENCY (“Must”) *Must meet all of the following requirements
Education: BA, BS or equivalent
Language proficiency:
English: fluent or above
Japanese: business10+ years of experience including following professional skills
Communication
Consulting Method
IT Security Management
IT Infrastructure Architecture
IT Service Continuity Management
Stakeholder Management
Benefits
Full-time / Permanent employment
Location: Shinagawa （required to go to Toyohashi office at least once/ 2 weeks but flexible）
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