NineTech
Datacenter Manager
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Data Centre Manager
Pay: £580 P/D
Contract: 6 MONTH
Location: 3 DAYS LEEDS
We are seeking an experienced Data Centre Manager to lead the day-to-day operations of a mission-critical data centre environment. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring high availability, operational excellence, infrastructure reliability, and the effective management of technical teams. This role requires strong experience with VMware technologies and hands-on laboratory/testing environments to support infrastructure validation, proof of concepts, and operational readiness.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the daily operations of enterprise data centre facilities.
- Ensure maximum uptime and availability of compute, storage, network, and virtual infrastructure.
- Lead infrastructure projects including upgrades, migrations, capacity planning, and technology refreshes.
- Manage VMware virtualisation platforms including installation, configuration, optimisation, and troubleshooting.
- Maintain and manage lab environments for testing infrastructure changes, firmware updates, disaster recovery procedures, and proof-of-concept deployments.
- Develop and maintain operational procedures, standards, and documentation.
- Monitor infrastructure performance and implement proactive improvements.
- Manage relationships with hardware, software, and service vendors.
- Lead incident, problem, and change management activities.
- Ensure compliance with security, audit, and operational policies.
- Support disaster recovery planning and regular recovery testing.
- Manage budgets, contracts, asset lifecycle, and capacity planning.
- Mentor and develop technical engineers and operational staff.
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Required Experience
- 5+ years' experience managing enterprise data centre operations.
- Extensive experience administering VMware vSphere environments.
- Strong experience with:
- VMware ESXi
- VMware vCenter
- VMware vMotion
- VMware HA & DRS
- VMware Lifecycle Manager
- VMware vSAN (preferred)
- Experience building and maintaining technical lab environments for infrastructure testing and validation.
- Experience managing physical server infrastructure from vendors such as Dell, HPE, Cisco, or Lenovo.
- Experience with SAN/NAS storage technologies.
- Knowledge of enterprise networking including switching, routing, VLANs, and firewalls.
- Experience with backup and disaster recovery solutions.
- Strong understanding of Windows Server and Linux environments.
- Experience with monitoring platforms and infrastructure automation tools.
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Technical Skills
- VMware vSphere
- ESXi
- vCenter
- vSAN
- PowerCLI
- Windows Server
- Linux
- Active Directory
- DNS/DHCP
- SAN Storage
- Fibre Channel
- iSCSI
- Cisco Networking
- Dell PowerEdge / HPE ProLiant
- Backup technologies
- Monitoring tools (PRTG, SolarWinds, Nagios, Zabbix)
- PowerShell scripting
Desirable Skills
- VMware VCF
- VMware NSX
- VMware Aria Suite
- Kubernetes or Tanzu
- Azure or AWS infrastructure
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
- ITIL certification
- VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
- Microsoft certifications
Leadership Experience
- Managing technical infrastructure teams.
- Vendor and supplier management.
- Budget responsibility.
- Capacity planning.
- Project delivery.
- Operational reporting.
- Continuous service improvement.
- Stakeholder management.
Qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
- VMware VCP certification preferred.
- ITIL Foundation or higher desirable.
Preferred Industry Experience
Experience within enterprise IT, managed services, financial services, healthcare, government, telecommunications, or other 24x7 mission-critical environments is highly desirable.
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