Managed hosting provider Secure-24 is adding 250-300 IT jobs over the next five years to its Southfield and Plymouth Township operations. Secure-24 manages IT systems for middle market companies and large enterprises.
“We’ve been growing every year by about 100 percent for the last six years,” says president and CEO Matthias Horch. “I think businesses have started realizing that they should focus on their core businesses and let others handle their IT needs.”
The consistent growth has the Southfield-based company investing $3.7 million in a new 18,000 square-foot data center in Plymouth Township and a 20,000 square-foot office facility in Southfield, which will allow it to consolidate its operations.
Secure-24 received a $7.1 million tax credit over 10 years from the state to help defray the costs of the build-out.
Horch cited the credit, as well as a public-private partnership with Wayne County designed to consolidate IT projects and attract other IT firms to the area, as his reasons for staying in the state.
Secure-24 is providing 25 people for the Wayne County project. The company is known for its intensive two-year training program in which employees are trained in labs while learning the ropes. Its new hires will include junior and senior positions.
“It’s always a challenge to find the right people, but Michigan has a great resource pool with many leading universities,” Horch says.
Source: Chelsea Nimiac, DP+Company
Writer: Ivy Hughes is the managing editor of Capital Gains.
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