Data Centre Management at ICT Authority

Data Centre Management Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for planning, designing, implementation and management of data centers as well as enforcing data centre policies
• Oversee management the data centre physical environment including access control, temperature, power management humidity and general housekeeping
• Ensure problems and queries pertaining to data centre equipment and services are effectively resolved
• Responsible for ensuring all data centre equipment is powered off/on in a controlled manner as per documented procedures during planned outages
• Liaise with project managers, engineers and team members to specify and implement physical changes to the data centre. This will involve liaising with application support and network teams who will be responsible for their areas
• Identify needs for external support on data centre projects and coordinate this work to agreed quality standards
• Assist with the creation and implementation (including testing) of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans for Government data centres
• Provide specialist advice and guidance on servers, storage and backup/redundancy in terms of policies, strategies and architectures to relevant stakeholders
• Provide specialist data centre advice on the selection and application of data centre equipment.
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned from time to time

Qualifications for the Data Centre Management Job

• A university degree in computer science or related field
• Seven years relevant experience working in a large data centre environment
• Experience within IT Technical Environment of Servers and common data centre infrastructure and tools
• Good written and oral communication skills; good interpersonal skills
• Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to effectively prioritize tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Strong customer service orientation
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment