Data Center Lab Manager (Dallas)

Data Center Lab Operations Manager

Dallas, Texas

Contract

Job description

• Experience in data center operations
• People management
• Planning and tracking the upcoming qualifications
• Expert in Azure Devops powerBI and MS Excel
• Driving PM planning TRR meetings
• Coordinate with offshore and Onshore team
• Coordinate with PM and Lab techs for day to day operations
• Coordinate with MS qual leads about the progress update bugs qual report etc
• Creating documents based on the new learnings and sharing with the team
• Identify and suggest the areas of automation
• Work with Supply Chain and Capacity Planning teams on planning the qualifications of different components DIMMs HDD SATA SSD M 2 NVMe E1 L and E1 S
• Review priorities between production and spares to create allocation plans for constrained materials
• Coordinate with Logistics for packing and shipping the SKU to manufacturer
• Support lab shipping receiving logistics and manage inventory of equipment and materials
• Good Communication with Customer and internal teams
• Planning disaster recovery procedures
• Maintaining current knowledge and understanding of security and networking best practices to offer the best solutions and protection to company systems
• Manage lab as needed and maintain area in accordance with safety standards
• Manage and maintain test hardware test racks and test equipment in the lab
• Server Architecture and debugging the server components
• Ability to troubleshoot and diagnose servers and technical issues
• Handson experience with cabling power distribution rack mounting and other data center operations
• Installing and Configuring Windows Ubuntu and CentOS operating systems ISO VHD using WDSSCCM PXE server and USB
• Installing maintaining and supporting network equipment including VPN Firewalls routers proxy servers switches WAN accelerators SCCMPXE DNS and DHCP
• Setup and maintenance of small cluster of Virtual Machine hosts hosting 100 Virtual Machines
• Training sessions within the team
• Position is 100 in person during business hours Following customer holiday calendar
• Procuring network equipment and managing network installation
• Designing and implementing new network solutions andor improving the efficiency of current networks
• Configuring firewalls routers and switches to maximize network efficiency and security
• Maximizing network performance through ongoing monitoring and troubleshooting
• Arranging scheduled upgrades
• Investigating faults in the network
• Updating network equipment CISCO Arista Dell to the latest firmware releases
• Reporting network status to key stakeholders
• Implementing disaster recovery procedures
• PowerShell scripting