Data Center Engineering Lead
Overview
The purpose of a Data Centre Engineering Lead is to design, implement and optimise data centre infrastructure solutions across leased environments by ensuring high availability, resilience, cost efficiency, and alignment to business and technical requirements, while supporting lifecycle management, vendor engagement, and infrastructure performance.
Requirements
- A Qualification in Information Technology, Engineering or in a related field
- +5 years’ experience in data centre infrastructure engineering, operations or similar
- Experience with virtualisation, storage, Unix/Linux and backup technologies
- Certifications in VMware VCP, SAN or Storage Certifications (Brocade / IBM Storage)
- ITSM Experience
Responsibilities
- Analyse infrastructure environments across compute, storage, virtualisation, and Unix platforms to ensure performance and resilience
- Review architecture designs and recommend improvements aligned to business and technical requirements
- Monitor platform health, capacity, and utilisation to support scalability and efficiency
- Document standards, configurations, and engineering practices to ensure consistency
- Monitor team activities and support prioritisation to ensure timely delivery of work
- Diagnose operational issues and support resolution across engineering domains
- Review workloads and recommend improvements to resource utilisation and efficiency
- Analyse backup and recovery environments to ensure data protection and reliability
- Monitor recovery objectives and test disaster recovery processes to validate readiness
- Analyse business and application requirements to support infrastructure solution design
- Recommend scalable and supportable infrastructure configurations
- Monitor vendor performance and support service delivery against agreed standards
- Support cost optimisation initiatives through infrastructure and service reviews
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