Data Centre Manager

R 70000 - R 80000 Monthly Basic Salary (Market related, Negotiable)

Our client based in Isando, Johannesburg is seeking a Data Centre Manager to join their team. The Data Centre Manager is the leader of data centre operations, responsible for 24x7 operations of the data centre facility, in accordance with industry best practice and company policies & standards.

The incumbent manages and supervises teams of employees within the Data Centre. The role is required to oversee equipment maintenance, inventory, customer service, contractor management and employee management.

Key Responsibilities :

• Responsible for equipment maintenance tasks such as managing and installing custom upgrades for clients, replacing cables, components and accessories
• Conduct working methods to ensure zero capacity incidents, and to maintain agreed PUE levels
• Ensure that records, drawings and schematics of the data centre environment / s are maintained
• Evaluate the best practices for design and maintenance
• Supervise a team of technicians to ensure smooth operation of the facility
• Manage working methods to ensure that all SLA and MSA’s are achieved
• Ensure that planned and corrective maintenance is carried out according to predefined standards and schedules
• Share knowledge and best practices across all Data Centres by building close relationship with other DC Managers and peers
• Expected to improve current processes, and introduce automation with aim towards simplification
• Manages escalated support cases and leads appropriate internal technical resources and / or 3rd party vendors to resolution
• Management of data centre infrastructure to provide a concurrently maintainable, cost effective system supporting 99.999% electrical uptime and 99.99% mechanical uptime.
• Management of data centre cabling infrastructure supporting 99.99% uptime
• Active participation in new data centre builds or expansions
• Monitoring and alerting of all critical components
• Ensuring comprehensive Root Cause analysis are completed for all incidents / outages
• White space capacity planning
• Quick responses to potentially critical situations
• 3rd party vendor management and service delivery
• Active involvement in network, physical and cyber security matters

Compliance, Audit & Risk :

Information Security :

SKILLS REQUIREMENT :

SHEQ, INFORMATION SECURITY, LEGAL AND OTHER REQUIREMNTS AND OBLIGATIONS :

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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