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Are you looking for a career where professional development is embedded in your employer’s 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!\nWe 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.\nResponsibilities\nServe as the primary point of contact for day-to-day data center operations and coordination.\nMaintain accurate rack elevations, floor layouts, equipment placement records, and data center diagrams.\nCoordinate and assign rack space and equipment placement based on available space, power, cooling, connectivity, and operational requirements.\nCoordinate equipment installations, rack-and-stack activities, relocations, upgrades, and removals with responsible technical teams.\nMaintain an accurate inventory of equipment installed within each data center, including rack location, equipment placement, system or network association, equipment owner, and asset information.\nEnsure equipment is properly labeled, documented, installed, and physically secured in accordance with established standards.\nEstablish and maintain cable management and labeling standards for network, fiber, power, and other infrastructure cabling.\nConduct routine data center walkthroughs to identify cleanliness, cabling, labeling, equipment, safety, environmental, and documentation deficiencies.\nMaintain overall data center cleanliness and operational hygiene, including removal of abandoned equipment, unused cable, boxes, packaging materials, and unnecessary items.\nCoordinate cleanup and remediation activities with responsible technical teams and track identified deficiencies through completion.\nMonitor available rack space, power, cooling, and physical capacity and identify potential capacity limitations.\nCoordinate with technical teams prior to the installation, relocation, or removal of equipment.\nMaintain designated equipment staging areas and ensure equipment is not unnecessarily stored within operational data center spaces.\nCoordinate equipment receiving, delivery, staging, installation, relocation, removal, and disposition activities.\nEnsure rack elevations, inventory records, diagrams, and other applicable documentation are updated following physical changes within the data center.\nReview planned work for potential data center infrastructure impacts and ensure physical prerequisites are addressed prior to implementation.\nCoordinate authorized vendor, maintenance, and third-party activities occurring within data center spaces.\nSupport physical inventory and asset management validation efforts and assist with identifying and resolving discrepancies.\nDevelop and maintain data center standard operating procedures, standards, checklists, and operating documentation.\nSupport incident and outage response when physical inspection, equipment identification, cabling validation, power verification, or onsite coordination is required.\nMaintain awareness of upcoming deployments, technology refreshes, equipment decommissions, and projects that may affect data center capacity or operations.\nIdentify data center risks, deficiencies, and improvement opportunities and escalate significant issues to Operations leadership.\nProvide routine status reporting regarding data center capacity, equipment movements, upcoming installations, identified deficiencies, and corrective actions.\nCoordinate with technical teams while ensuring those teams retain responsibility for the configuration, administration, troubleshooting, and operation of their assigned systems.\nPerform other data center operational duties as required to maintain an organized, documented, secure, and operationally ready environment\nOther duties as assigned.\nQualifications\nBachelor’s 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.\n5+ years of experience supporting or coordinating day-to-day data center operations.\nActive Top Secret (TS) security clearance with eligibility for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access.\n\nKnowledge, Skills and Abilities:\nKnowledge of data center operations, infrastructure standards, rack configurations, equipment placement, power, cooling, cabling, and space utilization.\nKnowledge of data center best practices related to cleanliness, physical organization, equipment labeling, cable management, equipment staging, and operational hygiene.\nSkill in developing, maintaining, and reviewing rack elevations, floor layouts, equipment inventories, diagrams, and other data center documentation.\nSkill in coordinating equipment installations, relocations, removals, rack-and-stack activities, and other physical data center changes across multiple technical teams.\nAbility to effectively manage data center space and equipment placement while considering current requirements, available capacity, and future growth.\nAbility to conduct routine data center inspections, identify deficiencies, establish corrective actions, and coordinate resolution with responsible teams.\nAbility to establish and enforce consistent data center operational standards and procedures.\nAbility to identify potential data center capacity, organization, safety, or operational risks and appropriately escalate issues requiring leadership attention.\nAbility to work independently, exercise sound judgment, prioritize activities, and maintain accountability for the overall organization and operational readiness of assigned data center spaces.\nHow you’ll grow\nAt 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 there’s always room to learn.\nWe 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.\nBenefits\nAt Chenega MIOS, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our team members and offer them a broad range of benefits.\nLearn more about what working at Chenega MIOS can mean for you.\nChenega MIOS’s culture\nOur 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.\nCorporate citizenship\nChenega 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.\nLearn more about Chenega’s impact on the world.\nChenega MIOS News- https://chenegamios.com/news/\nTips from your Talent Acquisition Team\nWe want job seekers exploring opportunities at Chenega MIOS to feel prepared and confident. To help you with your research, we suggest you review the following links:\nChenega MIOS web site - www.chenegamios.com\nGlassdoor - https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Chenega-MIOS-EI_IE369514.11,23.htm\nLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/1472684/\nFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/chenegamios/\nEstimated Salary/Wage\nUSD $175,200.00/Yr. 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