The Team Leader, Data Center Operations assures the security, reliability, and performance for the physical / virtual server and storage environments. He/she works to address issues by leading a team of Data Center professionals and leveraging his/her personal technical expertise. The Team Leader maintains responsibility for ensuring consistent, repeatable and sustainable practices, procedures, and documentation related to the Data Center operations.

  •  Develops and provides Data Center expertise, ensuring the maintenance of physical servers, virtual servers, operating system / application patching, messaging, backups, and monitoring
  •  Administrate in the duties to administer the cluster and hosts
  •  Provide guidance and technical expertise in Disaster Recovery planning and design
  •  Support the administration of SAN and SAN connectivity
  •  Administer backups and diagnose backup errors
  •  Manage client agents for server monitoring (SCOM) as well as agents for server management (SCCM)
  •  Provide guidance for automated processes within the Microsoft and Linux environment
  •  Ensures that effective practices and procedures are created for the configuration of storage for optimum performance.
  •  Provides daily operations support and maintenance for enterprise servers
  •  Performs technical support and administration of enterprise applications
  •  Manages and maintains Operating System and application patches in compliance with vendor recommendations and security best practices
  •  Maintains corporate infrastructure security standards for all systems; ensures data and database security at server level; employs security hardening techniques, especially for Internet facing systems
  •  Regularly reviews system logs and OS behavior to proactively monitor systems and address issues accordingly
  •  Creates and maintains technical and detailed design documentation
  • Works closely with application teams for day to day support issues, break/fix issues, and scheduled maintenance
  •  Manages Data Center vendor relationships, evaluating performance based on identified criteria
  •  Ensures practices and procedures are being followed by the Data Center Operations team
  •  Assigns and delegates tasks to team members as appropriate; defines roles and responsibilities for team members
  •  Coach and provide leadership, motivation and supervision of direct reports.
  •  Develop and grow IT team members–identify development needs, provide skill building opportunities for IT team.
  •  Works with team members to establish annual Performance Management Plan (PMP) goals and provides feedback throughout the performance cycle
  •  Encourages knowledge sharing, collaboration, and best practice sharing among team members
  •  Minimum of 5+ years' experience in a cross functional role in a mid to large sized corporate environment supporting the following technologies: Preference will be given to the candidate having experience in National level datacenter in Pakistan.
  •  Hands on experience with major Windows Server Operating Systems (2003, 2008, 2012, 2016) and Linux Operating system
  •  Virtualization concepts VMware, Huawei, Cloud etc.
  •  Enterprise Storage (SAN)
  •  Familiar with Enterprise Backup
  •  Leading a team with 5 or more technical professionals
  •  System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) – Windows OS patching, security and compliance
  •  Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity & Networking concepts
  •  Managing IT projects
  •  Demonstrated knowledge of Change Management frameworks such as ITIL
  •  Experience with defining and developing operational support standards for production systems and supported applications
  •  Demonstrated ability to automate business processes
  •  Ability to perform on call duties and afterhours work as necessary
  •  Experience with developing and implementing in-house training processes to help deliver knowledge transfer to more junior personnel
  •  Demonstrated experience with data center cooling, power and UPS, fire suppression, cabling and racking is preferable.
  •  Having Experience in National level datacenter in Pakistan will be preferred

Job Details

Industry:
Total Positions:
5 Posts
Job Shift:
First Shift (Day)
Job Type:
Job Location:
Gender:
No Preference
Minimum Education:
Bachelors
Degree Title:
BS/BE (Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, IT, Data Science, Telecom) or any equivalent degree
Career Level:
Experienced Professional
Experience:
5 Years - 5 Years
Apply Before:
May 06, 2021
Posting Date:
Apr 05, 2021

ALM HR

Education/Training · 11-50 employees - Islamabad

ALM Human Resources

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