Senior Data Center Operations Engineer

Job Description

Manages operations for a moderately complex data center, monitoring key metrics, addressing routine issues like capacity and cooling, and recommending improvements aligned with industry best practices. Provides support for escalated technical problems, optimizes automation and monitoring tools, documents processes and incident responses, and contributes to continuous improvement projects. Supports new region builds and expansions, collaborates with project teams, and oversees installations, repairs, inventory, and logistics-leading component upgrades and advising on data center purchases and deployments.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities
Data Center Site Portfolio Management:

-Typically one data center of moderate complexity.

Performance Monitoring and Analysis:
-Independently monitors and analyzes data center operations, providing insights and recommendations based on metrics.
-Analyzes and resolves routine issues (e.g., physical capacity, power capacity, cooling capacity).
-Partners across functions and regions to identify, measure, and improve processes in alignment with industry best practices (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma), contribute to improvement projects, and support alignment with strategic objectives.

Issue Management and Automation:
-Provides support for escalated complex technical issues.
-Triages and/or escalates issues and optimizes the use of automation, scheduling, and monitoring tools to proactively mitigate potential problems.
-Identifies, documents, and reviews issues, processes, and solutions, ensuring the data center knowledge base is continually updated.
-Executes incident or crisis management protocols in alignment with business continuity plans.
-Performs Root Cause Analysis (RCA) following crises or incidents, and updates documentation to capture process improvements.

Data Center Expansion Support:
-Independently supports new region builds and expansion activities, both onsite and remotely.
-Acts as a liaison with project teams and data center engineering, supporting timelines and capacity needs are proactively managed for expansion projects and site builds.
-Collaborates closely with project teams on significant aspects of expansion projects and site builds to deliver high standards.

Installation and Maintenance:
-Oversees installations, repairs, inventory management, and logistics tasks for data centers.
-Leads efforts to replace and upgrade components.
-Evaluates and recommends purchases or upgrades for data centers.
-Plans and oversees rack deployments, installation.

Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
-Independently manages work, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure projects or initiatives stay on track and meet requirements. Proactively prioritizes work and adapts to resource or timeline shifts, suggesting adjustments to maintain project efficiency.
Collaboration & Partnership:
-Collaborates across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives. Builds and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs to build and support effective partnerships. Actively listens to diverse perspectives and asks questions to ensure understanding of others.
Problem Solving:
-Independently identifies and addresses standard and non-standard issues in accordance with standard practices, escalating more complex issues as appropriate. Analyzes data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors. Contributes to knowledge sharing and best practices.
Continuous Learning:
-Embraces continuous learning by actively seeking to build knowledge and new skills and/or tools and staying current with industry trends and best practices. Seeks out and leverages feedback and training to improve skills. Contributes to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing with team members.
Continuous Improvement:
-Develops ideas and recommends updates to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team. Seeks input from team members on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $74,100 to $148,300 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - IC3

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