IT Manager

Role: IT Manager

Location: Bakersfield CA

Description:

Kern Medical has been a community cornerstone since its founding in 1867. Today, we are an acute care teaching center with 222 beds, offering the only advanced trauma care between Fresno and Los Angeles. Kern Medical offers a range of primary, specialty, and multi-specialty services including high-risk pregnancy care, inpatient psychiatric services integrated with county mental health programs, and a growing network of outpatient clinics providing personalized patient-centered wellness care. Kern Medical cares for 15,500 inpatients and 125,000 clinic patients a year.

Career Opportunities within Kern Medical include many benefits such as:

New Hire Premium: 6% of base rate of pay, matched up to 6% if contributed to Deferred Compensation Plan.

A Comprehensive Benefits Package: includes Holidays, Paid Time Off, Retirement, Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance.

Position: Manager of Infrastructure

Definition

The IT Infrastructure Manager reports to the Chief Technology Officer and will serve as the lead technology administrator for enterprise technologies including network, voice, compute, and storage.

Essential Functions

Lead IT projects, including the design and deployment of new IT systems and services

Monitor performance of information technology systems to determine cost and productivity levels, and to make recommendations for improving the IT infrastructure

Help define IT infrastructure strategy, architecture, and processes

Manage staff responsible for infrastructure technologies including network, voice, server, storage, and security.

Analyze business requirements by partnering with key stakeholders across the organization to develop solutions for IT needs

Assess vendors and develop test strategies for new hardware and software

Troubleshoot hardware and software issues related to internal IT

Education

Employment Standards:

Preferred Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, etc.; two (2) plus years of experience in a position that had the same or similar primary duties.

OR

Associates Degree or Certification in technical discipline (e.g. Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field), education, information technology, business administration, or a related healthcare or IS field with two years of experience in a position that had the same or similar primary duties.

OR

Without a college degree, five (5) years plus of blended work experience.

Experience

Firm grasp on IT infrastructure and operations best practices

Excellent working knowledge of computer systems, security, network and systems administration, databases and data storage systems, and phone systems

Strong critical thinking and decision-making skills

Project management and/or project team leadership.

Change management and process improvement leadership.