Data Center Production IT Leader

Catapult Federal Services; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Compass Datacenters in Dallas, TX is seeking a Manager, Data Center IT Operations to lead a hands-on team responsible for production servers, storage, virtualization, networking, and security infrastructure across multiple sites.

The role emphasizes on-call readiness, incident response, capacity planning, lifecycle management, and budget ownership, with a focus on reliable, secure operations and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in IT infrastructure roles, with at least 3 years directly managing a team.
• Strong working knowledge of Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, and Group Policy.
• Experience with VMware vSphere or Nutanix, including cluster management, resource allocation, and troubleshooting.
• Solid networking fundamentals: routing, switching, VLANs, firewall administration.

Responsibilities

• Manage the team that handles day-to-day administration, monitoring, patching, and incident response across all production sites.
• Build capacity plans for site launches and ongoing growth.
• Oversee production infrastructure across servers, virtualization, storage, and networking.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Incident response

On-call management

Vendor management

Capacity planning

Budget ownership

Windows Server

Active Directory

DNS

Group Policy

VMware vSphere

Nutanix

Networking fundamentals

EDR/MDR

IAM administration

Tools

PowerShell

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Compass Datacenters in Dallas, TX is seeking a Manager, Data Center IT Operations to lead a hands-on team responsible for production servers, storage, virtualization, networking, and security infrastructure across multiple sites.

The role emphasizes on-call readiness, incident response, capacity planning, lifecycle management, and budget ownership, with a focus on reliable, secure operations and continuous improvement.