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Reporting to the Director of Operations, this role is responsible for the smooth running of a number of Data Centers throughout Europe, ensuring they're well organized and staffed, meet departmental goals and abide by the standards set by IBM Cloud. The Senior Operations Manager works closely together with fellow Senior Managers with a number of Site Managers reporting to him/her.
Responsibilities:
- Manage upwards of 5 datacenters, observing site performance, and serving as an escalation point for issues requiring escalations
- Oversee regional datacenter operations to drive efficiency improvements to support operational integrity
- Manage regional assets by enforcing established policy and procedures and fulfilling audits to assure proper handling, sufficient inventory thresholds, and loss prevention
- Manage scheduling to cover 24/7 operations and including interviewing and hiring Site Managers
- Manage frontline and direct report performance and create/ implement training, coaching, and overall technical development
- Assist in the dissemination of information to employees via team meetings by actively contributing an agenda of items and effectively conveying that agenda, to meeting participants
- Work closely with local facility engineering staff to ensure all infrastructure systems are operating within established tolerances, proactively maintained, and adequately serviced when necessary
- Manage multiple projects relating to datacenter operations from planning to execution
- Foster functional inter-departmental relationships
Key areas of responsibility:
- Provide ongoing support to client deployments and incident management
- Ensure effective and efficient deployment of IBM Cloud’s infrastructure platform
- Operate and improve Disaster Recovery and contingency plans, policies, and procedures, as well as overseeing testing of those procedures
- Asset Management
- Calculate metrics to analyze the performance of the Site Managers
- 3-5 years of experience managing data centers and network infrastructure
- Proven knowledge of hardware concepts and component installation
- Understanding of facility management and datacenter infrastructure
- Customer focused attitude with previous customer service experience
- Technical knowledge of Linux/Unix, Windows, Servers, Virtual Machines (VMs), Firewalls, Switches, Routers, web hosting control panels (Ensim, cPanel/WebHost Manager (WHM), Plesk, and Helm)
- Proven communication and leadership skills
- Proven analytics skills to drive measurements and improvements
- Creativity and intellectual curiosity to constantly improve the data center operations
- Certifications a plus: Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT), Linux+, Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), etc
- Be able to motivate and lead a team
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience