Data Centre Operations Manager, LHR- DCO

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Data Center Manager, where you will oversee the world's largest Cloud Computing Infrastructure. This exciting role involves managing high-performing teams, optimizing operational processes, and ensuring compliance with health and safety standards. You will face complex challenges daily, driving innovation and excellence in Data Center operations. With a focus on team development and relationship management, you will play a crucial role in building and maintaining Data Centers. If you are passionate about technology and leadership, this is the perfect opportunity for you to make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in engineering with experience in managing large scale services.
• 3 years of experience building and managing successful technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop teams of engineers ensuring high performance.
• Maintain and improve processes in Data Centers.
• Liaise with vendors and internal teams for operational excellence.

Skills

Team Management

Process Optimization

Data Center Operations

Project Management

Scripting (Bash, Python, Perl, Ruby)

AWS Products Knowledge

Education

Technical Degree or Equivalent Experience

Tools

AWS (EC2, EBS, S3)

Project Management Tools

Job description

Job ID: 2860154 | Amazon Data Services UK Limited

As a Data Center Manager in Amazon, you will manage the world’s largest Cloud Computing Infrastructure. You will encounter interesting, challenging, and complex problems every day. Being a technical manager in Amazon means that you can innovate to solve these issues and help drive Operations Excellence in all areas of your role.

You will be a proven manager with experience managing teams of high performers. You will have the ability to refine and develop processes to optimize operational excellence in every area of your role. You will be able to drive performance levels to achieve the pace we build and operate our Data Centers at. You will have previous experience in Data Centers, either building or managing (or both), along with managing teams and developing great relationships with both internal teams and external vendors.

Key job responsibilities:

1. Managing and developing teams of engineers, providing both technical and leadership expertise and ensuring the highest levels of performance.
2. Maintaining existing co-located and in-house Data Centers.
3. Helping build and bring online new Data Centers.
4. Constantly improving all our processes and procedures.
5. Assisting & managing relationships with external vendors & contractors.
6. Liaising with internal teams & management groups.
7. Ensuring we adhere to and exceed local Health & Safety standards in all our Data Centers.
8. Creating and maintaining metrics on all aspects of our Data Centers and utilizing those metrics to drive positive changes.
9. Assisting in implementing service methodologies including incident management, problem management, change management, capacity management, etc.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Technical degree or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of relevant engineering experience managing large scale services and 3 years managing and building strong successful technical teams in a similar culture
- Project Management Experience and Systems and networking knowledge
- Prior ownership of the operation of a mission-critical team and/or product

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Formal project management certifications (Prince2, PMP, AGILE)
- Scripting: Bash, Python, Perl, Ruby (or programming languages)
- Experience or Knowledge of AWS products: EC2, EBS, S3 and infrastructure and system redundancy (Power feeds, ATS, Server Hardware, RAID, Network Connectivity)

Posted: October 23, 2024 (Updated about 13 hours ago)