Manager; Datacenter Operations

Job Summary: As the Manager of our datacenter operations team you’ll contribute in the strategic planning of the design, operation, and maintenance of equipment within our Data Center. You’ll support mission-critical servers and must maintain better than 99.999% uptime. You’ll also be responsible for vendor selection and various contract negotiations.

Location/Hours: 

·       Onsite in our state-of-the-art datacenter located in Richardson, TX.

·       Due to the 24x7 operations of the facility, must be able to work a flexible work schedule, may include nights, weekends, and/or holidays,

Right To Work: This role will be supporitng US Government customers and requires US Citizenship.

• Responsible for monitoring and prioritizing an internal ticketing system to provide customer support
• Provide basic operating system storage troubleshooting, along with storage upgrades, hardware troubleshooting and Raid configuration changes
• Provide hardware support and upgrades for servers running Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Server, Ubuntu Linux or VMWare ESX Server
• Simple operating systems administration can include, setting up OS network IP’s, fresh OS installs (using PXE), Firmware updates and basic OS troubleshooting
• Installation or removal of fiber or copper cabling.  Along with Layer 1 network skills, that will include testing, as well as connectivity issues with previously deployed copper or fiber cabling
• Installation of network device hardware including switches, firewalls, load-balancers and security appliances
• Installation of hardware on storage devices including DAS and NAS arrays
• Complete customer maintenances requests that include hardware modification, operating system installation, mounting of the devices within cabinets and completion of all cabling needs to be required

• Manage a team of datacenter operation engineers.
• Responsible for monitoring and prioritizing an internal ticketing system to provide customer support.
• Provide basic operating system storage troubleshooting, along with storage upgrades, hardware troubleshooting and Raid configuration changes.
• Provide hardware support and upgrades for servers running Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Server, Ubuntu Linux or VMWare ESX Server.
• Simple operating systems administration can include, setting up OS network IP’s, fresh OS installs (using PXE), Firmware updates and basic OS troubleshooting.
• Installation or removal of fiber or copper cabling.  Along with Layer 1 network skills, that will include testing, as well as connectivity issues with previously deployed copper or fiber cabling.
• Installation of network device hardware including switches, firewalls, load-balancers and security appliances.
• Installation of hardware on storage devices including DAS and NAS arrays.
• Complete customer maintenances requests that include hardware modification, operating system installation, mounting of the devices within cabinets and completion of all cabling needs to be required.

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