Datacenter Operations Engineer/Manager
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
The Data Center Operations Manager is a 24x7x365 on-call position responsible for operating a revenue-generating datacenter environment. This key individual will be managing support operations, troubleshooting infrastructure and technical issues, developing a comprehensive monitoring framework, as well as maintaining systems, inventory, and implementing technology upgrades.
Essential Job Functions
- Maintain and evolve a scalable and sustainable architecture for a high-volume real-time datacenter operation
- Assess risk factors and limitations of the current system, and identify areas of opportunity for mitigating these risks and limitations, improving overall system efficiency and performance
- Management of departmental priorities and delivery of Network and Data Center Operations projects.
- Establishment and execution of strategy and vision for the Network and Data Center Operations department.
- Maintenance and continual improvement of operational standards (performance)
- Plan, direct, and manage the daily operations / activities in the Network and Data Center Operations team, including:
- Scheduling and management of planned maintenance activities pertaining to Data Center, network, telecom, and backup hardware, systems, and services
- Oversight and management of all Local Area Network, Wide Area Network, and Telephony voice and data network equipment
- Management of the physical Data Centers including space, power and cooling usage, security, the installation of new hardware, hardware outages, and Data Center asset management
- Monitoring of equipment and services to ensure continuity of service and maintain appropriate levels of availability
- Maintaining records of equipment and service performance
- Preparing monthly performance reports, including metrics related to Uptime, Change Management and Release Management
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or Management Information Systems or equivalent degree
- Several years of experience with building and managing a revenue-generating datacenter.
- Experience with setting up systems to manage networks, systems and applications for both performance and alerting
- Strong working knowledge of CentOS/RedHat configuration and deployment
- Experience as a hands-on management team member in an Information Technology organization
- Experience with virtualization (e.g. VMWare ESX) is highly desirable
- Experience with networking technology: Switch, Routers, VPN, SLB and Firewall
- Experience with Internet advertisement technology and distributed computing environments is highly desirable
How to apply
Email resume to: careersUS@kindsight.net