Data Center Hands on Feet

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

SmartRecruiters, Inc. seeks an experienced Datacenter Operations Lead to manage 24x7 production infrastructure in a demanding environment. You will oversee servers, racks, cabling, storage and VOIP, ensuring reliability and high availability while coordinating with cross-functional teams.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in large-scale datacenter operations, strong VMware skills, and a proven ability to work in a fast-paced, global setting. On-call duties and incident response are required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of datacenter operations management for a large, complex customer.
• Hands-on datacenter management including servers, racks, cabling and storage.
• Strong virtualization and networking knowledge, VMware experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own 24x7 support for Infra/Datacenter operations.
• Maintain high reliability and availability of production infrastructure.
• Serve as SPOC for Priority 1 incidents with on-call and shift rostering.
• Engage in capacity planning for rack space, power and tools.
• Coordinate deployment, monitoring, and performance measurement activities.

Skills

Datacenter ops

VMware

On-call support

Capacity planning

Network & VOIP

Troubleshooting

Tools

VMware

Job description

• Accountable for 24*7 support for overall Infra/ Datacenter (Servers, Racks, Network, Telecom and VOIP) Operations.
• 100% hands-on datacenter management (servers, racks, cabling), Network, Telecom and VOIP , Rack and Blade servers, Storage, Backup, Tape library in mission critical production landscape.
• 8+ years of experience in managing datacenters operations of a large and complex customer.
• Strong foundation in Virtualization software like VMware etc
• Experience in infrastructure capacity planning based on key attributes Flexible, continuous learner, excellent communicator, works well in team environment, appreciates challenge, comfortable and effective working in new areas that require experimentation and rapid problem solving.
• Hands-on experience in managing 24x7 global datacenter operations/DR Operations
• Knowledge of Operational tools like deployment, provisioning, monitoring, performance measurement tools etc.
• Handling the daily operations to ensure that the infrastructure are up & running and as a whole provides high degree of reliability and availably.
• Capacity planning for Rack space, power, DC modular containment, necessary tools and services.
• SPOC for all Priority 1 call , 24X7, work with team based on On-call, shift rostering.
• Ensure client satisfaction and provide optimal level of customer services for various departments.

Additional Information

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