Data Center Engineer

Job Description

Job title: Data Center Engineer

Duration: 10 Months

Locatio n: Lansing, MI

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Data Center Engineer to support a large-scale data center migration initiative. The selected candidate will serve as a customer-facing technical lead and coordinate migration activities across infrastructure, networking, application, and stakeholder teams.

This role requires a combination of strong technical expertise, project coordination, and excellent communication skills. The engineer will manage multiple concurrent migration efforts while ensuring systems are transitioned safely, efficiently, and with minimal disruption to business operations.

Key Responsibilities

Serve as a technical lead and primary point of contact for data center migration activities.

Coordinate migration efforts across infrastructure, networking, application, and stakeholder teams.

Develop, maintain, and execute detailed migration plans and schedules.

Track project dependencies, risks, issues, timelines, and deliverables.

Facilitate communication between customers, technical teams, and project stakeholders.

Support migration planning, execution, validation, and post-migration activities.

Coordinate pre-migration assessments and readiness activities.

Troubleshoot technical issues that arise before, during, and after migrations.

Validate systems and services following migration to ensure successful transitions.

Support rollback planning and risk mitigation activities when necessary.

Manage multiple concurrent migration projects in a complex IT environment.

Provide regular status updates and communicate risks or issues to relevant stakeholders.

Ensure migration activities are completed with minimal disruption to business operations.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Experience working as a Data Center Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Systems Engineer, or similar technical role.

Strong experience supporting data center migration projects.

Knowledge of IT infrastructure, servers, storage, networking, and related technologies.

Experience coordinating technical activities across multiple infrastructure and stakeholder teams.

Strong troubleshooting and technical problem-solving abilities.

Experience developing migration plans, tracking dependencies, risks, and timelines.

Excellent customer-facing and stakeholder communication skills.

Strong organizational and project coordination abilities.

Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and priorities.

Ability to work effectively in a complex and fast-paced IT environment.