Manager-It Engineering-Web Services

You may know Penske for our big yellow trucks. But did you know we're an industry-leading technology innovation company? At Penske we have a 50-year history of leading the transportation and supply-chain industry, delivering world-class and award-winning technology solutions. It starts with our associates. No matter what your skills or technology stack, our IT team is for you. You'll work and grow alongside great people and on innovative projects. We inspire our IT experts to push the boundaries, create possibilities, be innovative, and, most of all, to have fun. Ultimately, you'll help develop and ensure our technology solutions keep our company and our customers moving forward. Do you have what IT takes?
Summary Statement:
The IT Manager will be responsible for developing maintenance and growth plans, creating annual and project budgets, managing the day-to-day operations of IT engineers, and keeping the executive team up to date on the current trends and latest technologies that could improve our technical landscape.
You will be working with and innovating Penske's modern Web Services environment with a team of industry leading experts.
What you will be doing:
As a Penske Manager of IT Engineering - Web Services you will lead the Web Services Engineering team and support staff through a diverse range of projects. You will be responsible for the reliability, performance, recoverability, and security of the corporate Web Services and the underlying team that manages and supports the environment. You will be keeping Penske updated with the latest technology and knowledge from the industry and implementing these changes across the whole company.
Penske Responsibilities:
• Maintains and recommends information technology strategies, policies, and procedures
• Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization systems standards
• Managing a team of engineers, including recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, coaching, and associate performance. Responsibility for team results.
• Completes projects by coordinating resources
• Enable faster and smarter business processes and implement analytics for meaningful insights
• Responsible for the reliability, performance, recoverability, and security of the corporate Web Services and the underlying team that manages and supports the environment.
• Daily operational oversight of all team resources, design, configuration, implementation, support, troubleshooting, maintenance, performance monitoring and the development of specialized procedures relating to the use of the corporate computing environment.
• Lead the Web Services team and support staff.
• Mentor and direct their staff in design and deployment of complex tools/technology and will work closely with technical staff on best practice development and implementation.
• Ensure the functional and cost effectiveness and timely support of the supported systems on a 24x7 basis.
• Analyze system or application usage and plan for growth and provide projections for business plan
• Manage resource planning on a continual basis to ensure the proper balance of design, implementation, and support resources
• Install, configure, and operationalize web infrastructure to support business processing requirements.
• Assess need for any system reconfigurations and execute them if required.
• Research and implement new open-source and commercial tools, technologies, and methodologies.
• Participate and lead architecture workshops.
• Leverage your day-to-day experiences to provide the voice of the customer to internal technology teams.
• Analyze and recommend changes to improve efficiency, lower costs, and enhance quality of business applications
• Serve as thought leader and final decision maker able to drive team to conclusions regarding technical solutions
Job Family: Information Technology
Address: 5401 West Kennedy Blvd Suite 700
Primary Location: US-FL-Tampa
Employer: Penske Truck Leasing Co., L.P.
Req ID: 2329578