• Brings unbridled enthusiasm for our internal customers, striving to understand how they perform their day to day activities, and what solutions best serve their needs.
• Embraces the challenge of managing and building a 24 x7 platform that operates at incredible scale, leveraging a strong DevOps culture to gracefully introduce service enhancements.
• Is a change agent, leading the team and organization to new ways of accessing and sharing information.
• Embraces Agile, favoring human interaction over processes and tools, to deliver Minimum Viable Products and solutions as rapidly as possible.
• Has strong vender management skills, building relationships with current and new technology partners to ensure DigitalGlobe makes the most of the technologies our platform is built on.
• Is a strong coach and champion for their team, bringing the out the best in people, and helping them to do the best work of their careers.
• Is metric driven, being transparent in the robustness of the services delivered, and data driven in the quest to improve user experience and service availability.
• Is purpose driven, leveraging contractors and off shore resources to work as extended members of the team to accomplish our results.

Other Requirements: 

• We prefer 7+ years management experience managing large scale data sets, and consuming petabytes of storage infrastructure.
• We run what we build, and sometimes this requires 24x7 availability to support to the team. 
• Ability to obtain a DOD Security Clearance.
• Some travel required to build relationships with our extended team members and suppliers.
• Our imagery and data assets reflect the state of the world, a solid understanding of geospatial data and formats is a plus.
• Our current environment heavily leverages a diverse set of storage infrastructures including NAS, SAN, JBOD and public cloud storage.  Your experiences with using a broad range of storage systems and understanding their characteristics is highly valued.

Location 

Westminster, CO