Great Lakes Institute of Management Looking for IT Manager – Academic Campus at Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Full Time

Job Objective:

The IT Manager is a strategic and mission-critical role and will be expected to contribute to strategic growth through sustained high performance.

As the IT Manager you will be accountable to deliver and support all information technology initiatives of the Institution. The role oversees the entire IT and communications portfolio across campus, through a team of dedicated IT professionals.

To be successful you will have extensive knowledge and experience in designing, installing and managing the IT infrastructure which include servers, LAN, WAN, Wifi Network including switches, routers, Activities on Clouds, Class Room AV equipment, CCTvs in a large corporate/campus environment. An excellent people /process driven person with sound knowledge of budgeting and smart vendor management skills would be our ideal candidate.

Key Responsibilities:

The specific job responsibility includes.

• To manage the school’s hardware and software.
• To keep an inventory of equipment, computers, software licenses, Audio Visual devices, UPS and others.
• Conducting routine evaluations of network and data security
• Performing routine system audits
• To assist faculty and staff with professional technology-based computer hardware and software inquiries.
• Locating and seizing chances to enhance and update software and systems
• Creating and implementing the organization’s IT policy and best practice manualsand meet governance requirements relating to business technology
• Creating workshops and training programs for staff
• Running routine system operations reports and sharing them with top employees
• Organizing and establishing deadlines for major IT projects such system updates, migrations, upgrades, and outages
• Managing and reporting on the IT budget’s allocation
• Advising the IT and AV staff
• Provide preventive and corrective maintenance to equipment
• Vendor management related to procurement of IT assets, AMCs, consumables etc.
• Manage outsourced IT and AV support teams and drive them to meet the objectives.
• EPABX and intercom, numbering and maintenance
• Maintenance of the existing ERP in TCS
• Maintenance of G-suite application for Greatlakes.

Qualifications, Experience and Competency requirements

He/she should have a tertiary qualification in IT, Computer Science, Electronics

B.Tech / Being M.Tech will be an added advantage

Remuneration

Compensation as per industry standards

Benefits would be detailed in the final offer