Global Infrastructure Manager (regional + hands-on exp)

About Us

Hyva Group is a leading global provider of innovative and highly efficient transport solutions for the commercial vehicle and environmental service industries. The company is committed to the development, production, marketing and distribution of components used in hydraulic loading and unloading systems on trucks and trailers. Its products are used worldwide across a range of sectors including transport, construction, mining, materials handling and environmental services providers.

Founded in 1979, the company is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn in The Netherlands and operates in more than 110 countries with over 3,500 employees around the world. The Hyva Group encompasses more than 30 subsidiaries globally, with an extraordinary sales and service coverage and 14 production facilities in Brazil, China, Germany, India, and Italy, with more than 20,000 customers.

About The Role

As a Global Infrastructure Manager in our brand new Regional Hub / Shared Services Centre (SSC) in Mid Valley City, Kuala Lumpur, you will have the opportunity to play a role in designing and guarding the standards of the global infrastructure of Hyva. To enable your success you have a great in-depth architecture experience and knowledge of security, networking, virtualization, cloud (Azure) and Windows servers.

In your role you’ll manage the standards and the infrastructure in the +/- 50 locations and 3 data centres.

You will lead a team of Infrastructure Specialists in Kuala Lumpur who work on worldwide projects and you’ll be collaborating with the regional teams in the Netherlands, India, Brazil, and China.

With your knowledge you will be responsible for some high-level projects like an infrastructure revamp and backup strategy with DRP, Data Centre Relocation, and number of services into the cloud.

You’ll work with the CIO and the Manager Global IT Operations on prioritization of projects.

Your key responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Design global infrastructure
• Availability global infrastructure
• Prioritization projects
• Define technical standards
• Initiate and prioritize projects
• Strategic supplier management
• Knowledge management
• Troubleshoot server problems
• Compose general IT policies

In this role you will be collaborating with various stakeholders across the business including our Global functions teams in Netherlands & other parts of the world.

Our Regional Hub supports a hybrid working approach. You will be supporting markets in multiple time zones and some flexibility around working hours will be needed.

You will be joining a newly formed Shared Services Centre team, with opportunities to grow, within Global Infrastructure or wider IT functions.

About You

To be successful in this role you will have:

• 8 – 10 years of relevant experience
• Familiarity in MS Windows Management (Windows Server, O365, Intune), Cloud Management (Azure), Server Virtualization (VMWare, Hyper-V), Instructure (Storage, Networking, Security)
• Soft skills: possesses global mentality & organizational awareness, a good communicator & motivator, capability of maintaining confidentiality
• HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE IS A MUST, you should be a Subject Matter Expert / technical know-how individual on Infrastructure
• REGIONAL EXPOSURE (PEOPLE MANAGING) IS A MUST, someone who has managed at least 10+/- headcounts would be highly ideal

Language

• Good written and spoken English is essential
• A proficiency in Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean and/or Thai as well as other Asian languages will be an added advantage, however not mandatory

Qualification / Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science / Information Technology, or related field

What We Offer

• We care about ecology and are truly sustainable. Not only for the environment but also for social resources.
• We have a highly dynamic and very international work environment.
• We have Great Place to Work certified countries!
• We provide a competitive salary which is adjusted on an annual basis in case of good performance.
• We work hybrid and care about your work-life balance.
• You will find nice extras such as various company activities during the year.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)

We welcome everyone regardless of origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, philosophical or political conviction, disability etc.