Senior Manager, Cloud and Connectivity Platform

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🔥 14 minutes ago

🇯🇵 Japan – Remote

💵 ¥12M - ¥17M / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Santen Pharmaceutical

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1001 - 5000 employees

💊 Pharmaceuticals

🏥 Healthcare

🏭 Manufacturing

Pharmaceuticals • Healthcare • Manufacturing

Santen Pharmaceutical is a specialized company dedicated to ophthalmology, involved in the research, development, marketing, and sales of pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter products, and medical devices. As the market leader for prescription ophthalmic pharmaceuticals in Japan, Santen's products reach patients in over 60 countries. With a 130-year history, the company leverages its scientific knowledge and organizational capabilities to enhance the well-being of patients and society.

📋 Description

• Own the platform, integrity, security, and continuous improvement of the company's global network and Azure infrastructure platform • Own Azure platform governance, landing zone design, policy enforcement, subscription strategy, tagging, and identity and access controls • Ensure Azure environments, landing zones, and resources are secure, compliant, and aligned with Microsoft best practices and regulatory requirements • Own global network architecture across approximately 90 offices and 12 SD-WAN sites • Govern the Azure vWAN intercontinental backbone, hub topology, routing design, and ExpressRoute/VPN connectivity across EMEA, APAC, and North America • Define infrastructure standards for reliability, availability, and disaster recovery, and validate and test them with service delivery leads • Own Azure cloud cost governance and establish FinOps practices and reports • Define and enforce network security standards, including segmentation, zero-trust access, firewall governance, and secure internet breakout • Establish observability standards and SLAs for availability, latency, and redundancy • Lead innovation, capacity planning, and lifecycle management for cloud and network components • Report KPIs, achievements, risks, and challenges to the manager • Contribute to the Global IT Infrastructure strategy and roadmap • Run and steer infrastructure projects, including business cases, opportunity studies, and project plans • Coach project members and ensure delivery of project objectives, costs, timelines, and business value • Ensure end-to-end change management, communication, training, and support for cloud/connectivity projects • Manage continuous PDCA improvement cycles based on KPIs and SLAs • Ensure smooth transition of IT projects into operations • Hire, develop, and retain team members • Execute the Cloud and Connectivity domain budget • Apply ITIL principles and participate in change management and the change advisory board • Manage strategic relationships with managed service partners and suppliers using KPIs and SLAs • Support DIT peers and business application teams with cloud solutions and advice

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Sciences, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience • Several years of experience as a global team leader with extensive remote management experience • Minimum of 10 years of experience in Information Systems Infrastructure and Cloud networking and design • Track record of delivering results and business-oriented value generation, ROI-based project plans, and global projects • Experience with platform ownership and continuous improvement of cloud environments based on ITIL practices • Experience with the international and Japanese IT market and partners • Broad knowledge of Information Systems Infrastructures and Cloud environments • Strong experience in Microsoft Azure, Azure networking and network management, SD-WAN, and Cisco products portfolio • Practical project management skills applied to infrastructure projects with rollout activities • Fundamental knowledge of security and security impact in workplace areas • Strong vendor and/or partner management experience and skills • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Japanese and English • Cisco and Microsoft Azure certifications (AZ-305, AZ-700, AZ-500 or equivalent) are advantageous

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements • Inclusive physical and virtual workplace • Equal opportunity employment • Recruitment process accommodations available upon request