Senior Manager - IT Infrastructure

At World Kinect, our employees are the key to our global success. We are industry leaders due to the innumerable talents of our approximately 5000 strong professional team. Our people thrive in an entrepreneurial and culturally-diverse environment, where innovative thinking, collaboration and efficient execution are highly valued. Our high-performance culture is what allows us to drive sustained growth. Stronger together, we promote an environment where individuals can thrive. We are seeking a technical Senior IT people leader to lead our Global Network engineering team. This role is responsible for executing technology strategy, ensuring operational excellence, and fostering a culture of innovation with a security and customer mindset. The leader will be responsible for driving transformation across infrastructure and cloud network platforms using infrastructure as code (IaC). Talent and leadership are at the heart of the CIO organization with a focus on empowering self-driven teams to achieve excellence by building efficient, secure, high-quality, and sustainable solutions. We foster a customer-centric culture where everyone takes pride in and ownership of their work. Being a globally distrusted organization, you will lead a distributed team that supports our global operations focusing on leadership, strategy, and collaboration. As such, the role will require you to guide engineers through the work, recognizing and removing barriers to support team success. As a leader, your ability to listen, learn, and leverage will be key to you and your team’s development and growth. If you are a high-energy self-driven technology leader that loves to solve complex problems creatively, thrives when challenged, is a bar raiser, and enjoy working in a transparent and collaborative environment where team success comes before individual, this is the right place for you.

Responsibilities

You’ll build and maintain a high-performance team in a distributed work environment. Provide clarity of purpose for their team and articulate a clear vision and strategy. Ensure alignment with organizational goals and core principles. You’ll lead, manage, and coach an engineering team and develop innovative network and automation solutions. You’ll drive the technical roadmap for network architecture, ensuring scalability, performance, and security. You’ll lead the transformation of our global & cloud network, and engineering practices. You’ll establish engineering standards such as network automation, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). You’ll manage initiatives, projects, budgets, circuits, contracts, timelines, and resources for optimal service delivery. You’ll guide teams through complex network troubleshooting and optimization challenges You’ll stay ahead of industry trends and introduce new technologies and methodologies to the organization Collaborate with stakeholders and senior leaders using both technical and non-technical language. Drive continuous improvement across technical, process, and engineering. You’ll ensure Agile practices are applied across the team and drive continuous improvements Work closely with the portfolio team members to ensure the delivery of initiatives and review of process to improve the flow of work. Work closely with engineers, architect, and tech leads to develop and drive technical roadmaps, plans, and deliveries. Ensure all decisions and solutions are founded on principles of security, quality, resilience, and scalability. Partner with Information Security teams and support the adoption of our Zero Trust and security programs across platforms and services. Maintain compliance with industry standards and regulations.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or a related field Minimum of 5 years of experience in IT leadership roles, in infrastructure and cloud network technologies. Proven leadership skills with the ability to lead and inspire teams. Experience driving teams across DevOps practices, CI/CD and IaC. You have strong knowledge of network protocols, automation tools, and cloud infrastructure You have deep understanding of network security practices and compliance frameworks You have proven ability to manage large-scale projects with multiple stakeholders Comfort with ambiguity and able to independently drive problem resolution Passionate for creating a great User Experience Excellent communication, collaboration, presentation and public speaking skills. Deep knowledge of Agile frameworks and methodologies. Technical certifications across Network solutions such as Cisco, PaloAlto, Skills Customer obsession Comfortable with ambiguity Adaptable to change Take responsibility and accountability Handles and treats things with sense of urgency Inspire confidence and motivation Caring and understanding Transformational & Situational leadership Seeks and utilizes feedback Learning agility Enthusiasm Optimism Courage World Kinect is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. At World Kinect, our people "Fuel Their Careers". We work in more than 150 locations worldwide and come from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds that offer an equally diverse range of skills. As a global leader in the fuel industry, World Fuel Services offers exceptional individuals the opportunity to become part of a truly successful international corporation. We are proud to be among the Fortune 100 companies. Apply To This Job