Data centre lead (Associate Vice President)

SmartZen Consulting; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Singapore is seeking a Data Centre Lead to manage their IT Data Center operations. This role involves overseeing infrastructure reliability, managing a team, and implementing best practices in ITIL and operational excellence. Ideal candidates will have 10-20 years of experience and be well-versed in data center management and operational processes.

Benefits

Paid sick time

Qualifications

• Experience: 10 to 20 years in IT operations and infrastructure management.
• Strong leadership skills with an ability to manage external vendors and service providers.

Responsibilities

• Maintain data centers and environmental facilities, ensuring systems and networks availability.
• Implement ITIL and ITSM procedures to improve incident and change management.

Skills

SLA management

ITIL

Incident Management

Crisis Management

Coordination

Job description

Job Profile/Purpose: Data Centre Lead

The IT Data Center Lead is responsible for planning, organizing, and managing team members, contractors/consultants, and the overall IT operation, focusing on ensuring the stable operation of the organization's IT Data Center and server infrastructure. This includes developing, maintaining, supporting, and optimizing key functional areas such as Cloud, Data Center, Servers, Mainframe, Operating Systems (Windows, AIX, Linux, Unix, CentOS, etc.), Storage, Backups, Databases, Device Management, Virtualization, security tools, and other infrastructure.

This role also oversees the operational excellence of the Data Center and Operations team, implementing ITIL and ITSM procedures, with initial focus on developing Incident Management, RCA/Problem Management, Change Management, Event Management, SLAs, production support, standards, tools, and best practices for the technology organization. The candidate must be a technically strong leader capable of managing projects, internal resources, and external vendors/service providers, with strategic and transformational capabilities.

Designation & Grade:

Associate Vice President

Job Location:

Goregaon, Mumbai

Reporting Authority:

Head IT Infrastructure

Reportees:

Direct: 3, Indirect: 7

Responsibilities:

1. Maintain data centers and environmental facilities, including UPS, backup generator power, fire prevention systems, and HVAC.
2. Plan, design, implement, and support the company's infrastructure (hardware, systems software, networks, backup systems, cloud infrastructure) in a multitiered, multi-platform environment.
3. Lead infrastructure implementation into computing facilities, ensuring availability, security, and reliability of systems and networks with high-quality installations and rapid deployment cycles.
4. Manage 24/7 maintenance activities for data center hardware, software updates, configurations, patching, and report on the health of the core infrastructure.
5. Asset tagging and data center inventory management.
6. Ensure adherence to ITIL processes, Information Security Framework, and BCM standards.
7. Monitor incidents, SRs, problem tickets, RCA, and change controls continuously to reduce risk and facilitate safe repair and change windows.
8. Troubleshoot data center and physical infrastructure issues.
9. Participate in high-severity operational incidents.
10. Maintain detailed SLA/SLO metrics related to availability, assets, operations milestones, incident management, facility health, capacity, and backups.

Additional Details:

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits: Paid sick time

Schedule: Day shift, Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Job Tags:

Mainframe, ITIL, Incident Management

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Experience: 10 to 20 years

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Additional Skills:

• SLA management
• ITSM, Major Incident Management, Problem Management, CMDB
• Coordination, Crisis Management, ITIL Incident Management, ITSM tools