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Job description
Data Center Operations Lead
Arlington, VA
Are you ready to enhance your skills and build your career in a rapidly evolving business climate? Are you looking for a career where professional development is embedded in your employers core culture? If so, Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) could be the place for you! Join our team of professionals who support large-scale government operations by leveraging cutting-edge technology and take your career to the next level!
We deliver essential technology services to our customers in support of their missions to sustain the national security and economic interest of our nation. SecuriGence is seeking a talented Data Center Operations Lead to help contribute to our success. Come help us solve problems with Innovation through Intelligence.
Responsibilities
Serve as the primary point of contact for day-to-day data center operations and coordination.
Maintain accurate rack elevations, floor layouts, equipment placement records, and data center diagrams.
Coordinate and assign rack space and equipment placement based on available space, power, cooling, connectivity, and operational requirements.
Coordinate equipment installations, rack-and-stack activities, relocations, upgrades, and removals with responsible technical teams.
Maintain an accurate inventory of equipment installed within each data center, including rack location, equipment placement, system or network association, equipment owner, and asset information.
Ensure equipment is properly labeled, documented, installed, and physically secured in accordance with established standards.
Establish and maintain cable management and labeling standards for network, fiber, power, and other infrastructure cabling.
Conduct routine data center walkthroughs to identify cleanliness, cabling, labeling, equipment, safety, environmental, and documentation deficiencies.
Maintain overall data center cleanliness and operational hygiene, including removal of abandoned equipment, unused cable, boxes, packaging materials, and unnecessary items.
Coordinate cleanup and remediation activities with responsible technical teams and track identified deficiencies through completion.
Monitor available rack space, power, cooling, and physical capacity and identify potential capacity limitations.
Coordinate with technical teams prior to the installation, relocation, or removal of equipment.
Maintain designated equipment staging areas and ensure equipment is not unnecessarily stored within operational data center spaces.
Coordinate equipment receiving, delivery, staging, installation, relocation, removal, and disposition activities.
Ensure rack elevations, inventory records, diagrams, and other applicable documentation are updated following physical changes within the data center.
Review planned work for potential data center infrastructure impacts and ensure physical prerequisites are addressed prior to implementation.
Coordinate authorized vendor, maintenance, and third-party activities occurring within data center spaces.
Support physical inventory and asset management validation efforts and assist with identifying and resolving discrepancies.
Develop and maintain data center standard operating procedures, standards, checklists, and operating documentation.
Support incident and outage response when physical inspection, equipment identification, cabling validation, power verification, or onsite coordination is required.
Maintain awareness of upcoming deployments, technology refreshes, equipment decommissions, and projects that may affect data center capacity or operations.
Identify data center risks, deficiencies, and improvement opportunities and elevate significant issues to Operations leadership.
Provide routine status reporting regarding data center capacity, equipment movements, upcoming installations, identified deficiencies, and corrective actions.
Coordinate with technical teams while ensuring those teams retain responsibility for the configuration, administration, troubleshooting, and operation of their assigned systems.
Perform other data center operational duties as required to maintain an organized, documented, secure, and operationally ready environment
Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Bachelors degree in information technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field. Additional relevant data center experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
5+ years of experience supporting or coordinating day-to-day data center operations.
Active Top Secret (TS) security clearance with eligibility for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Knowledge of data center operations, infrastructure standards, rack configurations, equipment placement, power, cooling, cabling, and space utilization.
Knowledge of data center best practices related to cleanliness, physical organization, equipment labeling, cable management, equipment staging, and operational hygiene.
Skill in developing, maintaining, and reviewing rack elevations, floor layouts, equipment inventories, diagrams, and other data center documentation.
Skill in coordinating equipment installations, relocations, removals, rack-and-stack activities, and other physical data center changes across multiple technical teams.
Ability to effectively manage data center space and equipment placement while considering current requirements, available capacity, and future growth.
Ability to conduct routine data center inspections, identify deficiencies, establish corrective actions, and coordinate resolution with responsible teams.
Ability to establish and enforce consistent data center operational standards and procedures.
Ability to identify potential data center capacity, organization, safety, or operational risks and appropriately escalation issues requiring leadership attention.
Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, prioritize activities, and maintain accountability for the overall organization and operational readiness of assigned data center spaces.
How youll grow
At Chenega MIOS, our professional development plan focuses on helping our team members at every level of their careers to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe theres always room to learn.
We offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their careers.
Benefits
At Chenega MIOS, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our team members and offer them a broad range of benefits.
Learn more about what working at Chenega MIOS can mean for you.
Chenega MIOSs culture
Our positive and supportive culture encourages our team members to do their best work every day. We celebrate individuals by recognizing their uniqueness and offering them the flexibility to make daily choices that can help them be healthy, centered, confident, and aware. We offer well-being programs and continuously look for new ways to maintain a culture where we excel and lead healthy, happy lives.
Corporate citizenship
Chenega MIOS is led by a purpose to make an impact that matters. This purpose defines who we are and extends to relationships with our clients, our team members, and our communities. We believe that business has the power to inspire and transform. We focus on education, giving, skill-based volunteerism, and leadership to help drive positive social impact in our communities.
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Estimated Salary/Wage
USD $175,200.00/Yr. Up to USD $180,000.00/Yr.
Chenega Corporation and family of companies is an EOE.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Native preference under PL 93-638.
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Worksite address
arlington, VA, 22201, US
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