Data Center Manager

Full-time - Manager

New York, NY

Real Estate

About the position

We are seeking a talented and experienced Data Center Manager to lead our Data Center Engineering and Operations teams in New York. Our team is responsible for the design and build of data halls, cages, and Exchange collocated infrastructure worldwide in support of the firm's on-premise network, server, storage, exchange, and counter-party connectivity. This is a hands-on management role and the ideal candidate must be a subject matter expert in data centers features and architecture, power, cooling, cabinet layout design, cabling technologies, smart rack PDU's, hot and cold aisle containments, capacity management, hardware acquisition and deployment models, and infrastructure monitoring, and metrics.

Responsibilities

• Managing teams of Data Center Engineering and Operations staff in the US, with matrix management of teams in Europe and Asia Pacific.
• Building and provisioning small to multi MegaWatt data halls and cages worldwide, including cabinet layouts, cabling, PDU's, environmental sensors, etc.
• Developing and maintaining data center power, space, and environmental monitoring, metrics, and dashboards.
• Data center space and power capacity, growth, and migration management.
• Server hardware acquisition including efficient and agile growth and lifecycle management.
• Development of server hardware and peripheral supply management globally.
• Work with remote hands and partner teams globally to affect the timely and correct installation of server hardware, network devices, and cross-connects to exchanges and counter-parties.
• Understanding enough of server, storage, network, and cloud connectivity to influence designs and hardware choices for the optimal integration with data center infrastructure.
• Partner with platform and application engineering teams to influence best practices across the organization to ensure data center capabilities and locations are used in an optimized way.
• Development of automated tools to assist Data Center operations teams with enhanced visibility and manageability.
• Office infrastructure buildouts (IDF and MDF's) including structured cabling and network kit installations and resiliency and recoverability planning.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical or related field.
• 2+ years of team and people management experience.
• 5+ years of experience in the Data Center design, operations, and hardware lifecycle management.
• Excellent vendor management and engagement expertise. Sharp commercial awareness.
• Carrier and telecom knowledge.
• Data center management, monitoring, metrics, and dashboards experience using SNMP, Python, Prometheus, or a commercial data center management tool like Nlyte or Sunbird.

Benefits

• Base salary range of $175,000 to $250,000.
• Discretionary performance bonus.
• Comprehensive benefits package.