Senior Data Center Infrastructure Lead (Onsite)

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.; Norman (OK); On-site; USD 93,000 - 113,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Vantara in Norman, Oklahoma is seeking a senior Data Center Infrastructure Engineer to lead Engineering Technical Operations onsite. This is a hands-on role, installing, rack‑and‑stacking, cabling, troubleshooting, and decommissioning enterprise infrastructure while coordinating with vendors, facilities teams, and remote engineers.

You will mentor staff, drive data center migrations and deployments, review plans, maintain asset records, and ensure deployment readiness.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise data centers, engineering labs, infrastructure operations, or similar environments.
• Extensive hands-on experience with enterprise compute, storage, networking, and physical data center infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience leading data center migrations, deployments, consolidations, or major hardware installations.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across hardware, network connectivity, storage connectivity, cabling, optics, and firmware.
• Strong understanding of rack layouts, structured cabling, fiber optics, A/B power, PDUs, capacity, and equipment installation standards.
• Experience with enterprise Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and remote hardware-management technologies.
• Ability to interpret implementation plans, rack elevations, network diagrams, and infrastructure documentation.
• Experience working within incident, request, change, asset, and inventory management processes.
• Demonstrated ability to assess operational risk, work independently, and provide technical guidance to others.
• Strong communication, documentation, and coordination skills.
• Ability to safely install and move data center equipment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior onsite technical lead for Engineering Technical Operations activities in Norman.
• Perform hands-on installation, rack-and-stack, cabling, relocation, troubleshooting, repair, and decommissioning of enterprise infrastructure.
• Lead onsite execution of data center migrations, deployments, lab expansions, hardware relocations, and consolidation activities.
• Coordinate work across onsite engineers, vendors, facilities personnel, and remote technical teams.
• Provide technical direction and mentoring to other onsite infrastructure personnel.
• Troubleshoot server, storage, network, power, cabling, optics, firmware, and hardware connectivity issues.
• Review implementation plans and validate rack space, power, connectivity cabling, and deployment readiness.
• Maintain accurate rack elevations, asset records, equipment locations, cabling information, and operational documentation.
• Execute and support approved incidents, service requests, and change activities within established ITSM processes.
• Partner with Network, Systems, Storage, Product Services, Engineering, Facilities, and global technical teams.
• Develop and maintain operational procedures, implementation plans, runbooks, and infrastructure standards.
• Support capacity planning, vendor activity, inventory, shipping, receiving, and hardware lifecycle processes.
• Participate in planned maintenance and occasional after-hours activities as required.

Skills

Data center infrastructure

Hands-on engineering

Troubleshooting hardware & network

Leadership / mentoring

Onsite coordination

Communication & documentation

Onsite in Norman, OK

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Jira Software

Jira Service Management

Confluence

ServiceNow

Microsoft Office

Visio

Job description

Hitachi Vantara in Norman, Oklahoma is seeking a senior Data Center Infrastructure Engineer to lead Engineering Technical Operations onsite. This is a hands-on role, installing, rack‑and‑stacking, cabling, troubleshooting, and decommissioning enterprise infrastructure while coordinating with vendors, facilities teams, and remote engineers.

You will mentor staff, drive data center migrations and deployments, review plans, maintain asset records, and ensure deployment readiness.