Job Description
Data Center Capacity Consultant
Ashburn, VA
Responsibilities
- Manage data center capacity and forecast modeling
- Work directly with Facilities Management teams to assess day-to-day and project deployment impact on Data Center Power, Space, and Cooling
- Perform/participate in data center space planning to develop rack elevations with potential power consumption
- Design, build, and event management for related White Space expansions
- Ensure operational procedures, processes, and Global Standards are adhered to in support of the Data Center Operations teams.
- Execute administrative and operational policies consistent with corporate and department goals, strategic planning, and BU growth objectives
- Perform/participate in security, access, and data center audits to ensure compliance with policies and standards
- Execute postmortem analysis to ensure issues that do impact operations are understood and corrective actions taken
- Proactively manage key Business units to ensure relationships and workloads are always on target
- Actively seek new information about changing products, markets, procedures, industry trends, developments and best practices
- Support the design, build, and maintenance of future data center solutions
Experience and Educational Requirements:
- Bachelor's or Associates degree
- Experience in the Financial Sector & Enterprise Data Centers
- 3-5 years of Capacity Management experience and Data Center Facilities
- Intermediate understanding of Mechanical & Electrical systems in an Enterprise Data Center Specifically at the rack level, PDU, and UPS
- Experience working with IT & Facilities engineering teams to asses cutting-edge technologies impact on Data Center environment, power, space, cooling.
- Working experience with data center operations, low & high voltage, and resiliency/redundancy standards to ensure system availability
- Monitoring of rack-level design and electrical thresholds/failover values
- Experience in communicating with all levels of Data Center Management and cross-divisional IT organizations
- Current on cabling Infrastructure industry standards
- Project management skills supporting Data Center Physical Layer projects
- Management supporting of Data Center Moves adds & changes
- Quality Assurance of Data Center inventory databases
- Change/risk management
- Skill in diagnosing and solving complex problems, providing tactical & strategic solutions
- Superior oral and written communication skills
- Superior computer skills including all common business applications with an emphasis on Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.
- AutoCAD is a plus
- Knowledge of industry standards and cutting-edge IT technologies
- Knowledge of Network Inventory databases a plus
Job Tags
Work experience placement, Work at office