Director, R&D Data Center

Company: Regional Recreation Corporation of Wood Buffalo
Location: Wheat Ridge
Posted on: February 22, 2021

Job Description:

Careers - DDN - DataDirect Networks - Director, R&D Data Center in Wheatridge, Colorado - Careers at Office: Wheatridge Skip to Main Content Please Enable Cookies to Continue Please enable cookies in your browser to experience all the personalized features of this site, including the ability to apply for a job. Welcome page Welcome page Returning Candidate? Log back in! Director, R&D Data Center Job Locations US-CO-Wheatridge Posted Date 3 days ago (1/27/2021 4:23 PM) Job ID 2020-2762 Overview Based in Silicon Valley, Tintri by DDN, Inc, is a wholly owned subsidiary of DataDirect Networks (DDN), the data-at-scale powerhouse and world's largest privately held storage company. Tintri solutions serve the needs of enterprise datacenters with intelligent infrastructure. This portfolio offers a fresh choice and a new experience to elevate your user experiences through automation, analytic insight, and tight integration with application workflows for your enterprise applications, including mission-critical databases and business applications, virtualization, and flexible software defined solutions. Learn more about the Tintri portfolio of solutions at--https://www.tintri.com/products Job Description Director, R&D Datacenter Tintri is looking for a technically "hands on" Datacenter leader to provide direction and contribute alongside other technical team members in building and maintaining a highly effective and internal stakeholder focused Engineering Datacenter. This position reports to the VP of Engineering along with several dotted line stakeholders and is responsible for managing all aspects of datacenter operations primarily focused for engineering operations and cross functional teams such as sales, marketing and customer support Responsibilities

• Hands on lead and manage datacenter operations, infrastructure and services team. Detect and proactively address issues to enable 24x7 operations with 100% uptime. Monitor and report Operational status and measure against service level objectives
• Define and document datacenter processes and best practices. Ensure they are communicated and followed; including operational dashboards, KPI's and SLA performance metrics.
• Drive operational efficiency through automation and adoption of new technologies
• Accountable for developing, gaining stakeholder buy in, and executing within Development and Quality Engineering the vision for providing a world class Enterprise Datacenter
• Hands on manage and track workload and requests. Balance the resolution of urgent incidents with progress on longer term projects. Creating the appropriate technical tools and automation to support outputs.
• Own specification of Datacenter standards for selecting equipment and services. Negotiate with vendors and obtain optimal terms and maintain within budget
• Own resource allocation and project workflow for direct reports and contractor workforce. Drive design and engineering decisions to conclusion including managing internal and external resources, project teams, contractors, and vendors
• Accountable for the Data Center appearance and functionality. Present to internal stakeholders as a competitive advantage. Required Skills
  • Bachelor of Science in an engineering discipline from an accredited university or college, required.
  • 5+ years hands on technical experience relevant to datacenter activities. 8+ years of experience in a management role required, 10+ years preferred
  • Experience in computer networking, hyper-converged platforms (Compute & Storage), File & Block storage systems, Configuring NFS\SMB, iSCSI, FC storage networks, VMware & Hyper-V hypervisor platform, Cloud platforms (AWS\GCP\Azure), DevOps tools & processes
  • Driving the design & re-factoring of data center applications that are implemented in Python, Perl PHP & SQL. Designing & generating reports, data ingestion and making the customer data bundles available for engineering consumption
  • Experience in scaling the data center infrastructure to accommodate a rapidly growing engineering organization. Design & implementation of end to end automation of infrastructure availability for engineering development & testing purposes
  • Proven experience managing service expansion, datacenter moves, and extension to co-located operations. Hands-on experience with networking topology design & router\switch programming configurations
  • Experience in leading, staffing and building a strong, effective and customer-focused global team
  • Strong leadership, planning, decision making skills. Excellent communication skills to effectively work with present information to executive management, operations, sales engineering and finance Know someone who would be a great fit? Apply for this job online Apply Share Refer this job to a friend Refer Sorry the Share function is not working properly at this moment. Please refresh the page and try again later. Share on your newsfeed Loading... Application FAQs Software Powered by iCIMS
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