Language Weaver/Los Angeles, CA
Manager Production Operations
This is IT!
Be "IT" in one of the 75 best companies to work for in LA! Do people like working here? They do when they are helping to deliver on a unique product line critical to the globalization of the world's leading businesses!
SDL Language Weaver seeks a Manager for Production Operations to work side by side with our Director of Information Technology as we commercialize cutting edge software for the new social business.
This is all about rolling out new products to the world and building great success in the market which we have defined. If you're tired of being bogged down in bureaucracy and you'd rather spend your days making your career into what you truly want it to be, we need to have a conversation!
Duties
* Support IT Director in datacenter design and engineering services (ex: Oversee Rack and wire datacenter devices - routers, switches, servers, storage)
* Interface with other teams and assist IT Director with project requests, related requirements, schedule equipment deployments, evaluate and validate user request details, and help coordinate workflow
* Define stack for network and system monitoring
* Define application requirements for logging, restart and recovery
* Maintain hot backup environment
* Oversee break-fix support for servers and storage
* Maintain inventory
* Diligent management of datacenter power and environment, related capacity planning, monitoring, and improvements
* Provide off hours datacenter support services as needed
* Provide expedient full range of services to customers (internal and external)
* Enforce operational best practices and controls
* Support datacenter management software
* Create and maintain datacenter related documentation as directed
* Attend to other departmental needs as necessary
* Provide initiatives and recommendations that further the service level and excellence of the department
Qualifications
* 3+ years experience in datacenter management
* Demonstratable experience supporting live SaaS and data collection environments
* 6+ years experience supporting a high capacity, high availability, datacenter environment
* Solid understanding of datacenter power, cooling, and efficiency principles
* Solid understanding of cabling, and related technologies
* Knowledge and experience of server architecture and related hardware troubleshooting and repair
* Knowledge and experience of storage systems, backup systems, networking
* Experience with datacenter management software
* Ability to multitask and perform in a fast paced, critical production environment
* Excellent organizational and communication skills
* Interpersonal and team work
About Us:
Language Weaver, Inc., was founded in January 2002 to commercialize a breakthrough approach to automatic language translation and natural language processing, based on research advances made at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI). Language Weaver's resulting product, statistical machine translation software (SMTS), uses a statistical rather than traditional rule-based approach to correlate words and word groupings from language to language and produce the highest probability output. In July of 2010 Language Weaver was acquired by SDL and became SDL Language Weaver.
SDL is the leader in Global Information Management (GIM) solutions that empower organizations to accelerate the delivery of high-quality multilingual content to global markets. Its enterprise software and services integrate with existing business systems to manage the delivery of global information from authoring to publication and throughout the distributed translation supply chain. SDL offers clients an end to end Global Information Management Solution. The business is growing rapidly, both organically and through acquisition, and derives approximately 50% of its revenues through North American based clients.
Quite simply, we accelerate the way the world communicates!
We offer a competitive benefits package inclusive of:
* Competitive base salary
* Casual dress environment
* HMO & PPO Health Insurance Options
* Life & Disability Insurance
* Flexible Spending Accounts
* Dental
* Vision
* 401k with company match
* Vacation
Please submit resume and salary history to the attention of Language Weaver's Technical Recruiter, Brad Littlefield. EOE. No recruiter or outside agency inquires.
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Manager Production Operations
This is IT!
Be "IT" in one of the 75 best companies to work for in LA! Do people like working here? They do when they are helping to deliver on a unique product line critical to the globalization of the world's leading businesses!
SDL Language Weaver seeks a Manager for Production Operations to work side by side with our Director of Information Technology as we commercialize cutting edge software for the new social business.
This is all about rolling out new products to the world and building great success in the market which we have defined. If you're tired of being bogged down in bureaucracy and you'd rather spend your days making your career into what you truly want it to be, we need to have a conversation!
Duties
* Support IT Director in datacenter design and engineering services (ex: Oversee Rack and wire datacenter devices - routers, switches, servers, storage)
* Interface with other teams and assist IT Director with project requests, related requirements, schedule equipment deployments, evaluate and validate user request details, and help coordinate workflow
* Define stack for network and system monitoring
* Define application requirements for logging, restart and recovery
* Maintain hot backup environment
* Oversee break-fix support for servers and storage
* Maintain inventory
* Diligent management of datacenter power and environment, related capacity planning, monitoring, and improvements
* Provide off hours datacenter support services as needed
* Provide expedient full range of services to customers (internal and external)
* Enforce operational best practices and controls
* Support datacenter management software
* Create and maintain datacenter related documentation as directed
* Attend to other departmental needs as necessary
* Provide initiatives and recommendations that further the service level and excellence of the department
Qualifications
* 3+ years experience in datacenter management
* Demonstratable experience supporting live SaaS and data collection environments
* 6+ years experience supporting a high capacity, high availability, datacenter environment
* Solid understanding of datacenter power, cooling, and efficiency principles
* Solid understanding of cabling, and related technologies
* Knowledge and experience of server architecture and related hardware troubleshooting and repair
* Knowledge and experience of storage systems, backup systems, networking
* Experience with datacenter management software
* Ability to multitask and perform in a fast paced, critical production environment
* Excellent organizational and communication skills
* Interpersonal and team work
About Us:
Language Weaver, Inc., was founded in January 2002 to commercialize a breakthrough approach to automatic language translation and natural language processing, based on research advances made at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI). Language Weaver's resulting product, statistical machine translation software (SMTS), uses a statistical rather than traditional rule-based approach to correlate words and word groupings from language to language and produce the highest probability output. In July of 2010 Language Weaver was acquired by SDL and became SDL Language Weaver.
SDL is the leader in Global Information Management (GIM) solutions that empower organizations to accelerate the delivery of high-quality multilingual content to global markets. Its enterprise software and services integrate with existing business systems to manage the delivery of global information from authoring to publication and throughout the distributed translation supply chain. SDL offers clients an end to end Global Information Management Solution. The business is growing rapidly, both organically and through acquisition, and derives approximately 50% of its revenues through North American based clients.
Quite simply, we accelerate the way the world communicates!
We offer a competitive benefits package inclusive of:
* Competitive base salary
* Casual dress environment
* HMO & PPO Health Insurance Options
* Life & Disability Insurance
* Flexible Spending Accounts
* Dental
* Vision
* 401k with company match
* Vacation
Please submit resume and salary history to the attention of Language Weaver's Technical Recruiter, Brad Littlefield. EOE. No recruiter or outside agency inquires.
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Source: Venture Beat