Targa Resources
Server Operations Senior Manager
Houston, Harris County · Senior
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About the role
- The Senior Manager, Server Operations provides strategic and operational leadership for the company's enterprise server, storage, virtualization, and cloud compute environment.
- Strategy & Enterprise Technology Leadership
- Translate company and Technology priorities into platform capabilities, standards, investment plans, and measurable operating outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the multi-year strategy and roadmap for enterprise server, storage, virtualization, cloud compute, and related infrastructure services while ensuring technology decisions support enterprise scale, geographic distribution, operational continuity, and future growth.
- Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration management, automated provisioning, and policy-based platform governance to improve consistency, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Own the strategy, governance, and operational integration of on-premises and cloud-based compute platforms, ensuring capabilities are delivered through the most appropriate combination of data center, colocation, and cloud services.
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of administrators, engineers, architects, and technical leads responsible for enterprise infrastructure services.
- Build organizational capability through workforce and succession planning, cross-training, performance management, targeted employee development, and a culture of critical thinking and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting infrastructure in the energy, industrial, or another operationally critical sector across geographically distributed corporate, data center, and field environments.
- Leadership experience with public cloud, automation, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including major incidents, platform migrations, data center or cloud transformations, and enterprise infrastructure projects.
- Experience with financial planning, vendor management, contracts, licensing, technology investment analysis, and operating within SOX, audit, regulatory, or other formal control environments
- relevant technical or leadership certifications are a plus.
- Strategic Leadership and Enterprise Management: Sets direction and understands the scale, integration, governance, and resilience required for enterprise infrastructure.
- Critical Thinking and Business Acumen: Evaluates facts, assumptions, dependencies, risks, cost, and alternatives to reach sound decisions.
- Participate in a leadership escalation rotation for major incidents and critical infrastructure events
- this role is not the routine first-line on-call resource.
Benefits
- Own the operational health and service delivery of enterprise server platforms across on-premises, colocation, and cloud environments.
Equal opportunity
- Targa Resources provides equal employment opportunities based on merit, experience, and other work-related criteria and without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, sex, age, pregnancy, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.
- We also strive to provide reasonable accommodation to employees' beliefs and practices that do not conflict with Targa's policies and applicable law.
- We value the unique contributions that every employee brings to their role with Targa.
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