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Midrand: Data Centre Manager posted by Manpower Group

Midrand: Data Centre Manager posted by Manpower Group

Posted on 2025-06-05 00:00:00

Employer Manpower Group
Category Automotive Technician
Location Gauteng  / Midrand

Job Summary

OBJECTIVES 1.
MAIN FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB
Data Centre Management

  • Responsible for equipment maintenance tasks such as managing and installing custom upgrades for clients, replacing cables, components and accessories
  • Conduct working methods to ensure zero capacity incidents, and to maintain agreed PUE levels
  • Ensure that records, drawings and schematics of the data centre environment/s are maintained
  • Evaluate the best practices for design and maintenance
  • Supervise a team of technicians to ensure smooth operation of the facility
  • Manage working methods to ensure that all SLA and MSA’s are achieved
  • Ensure that planned and corrective maintenance is carried out according to predefined standards and schedules
  • Share knowledge and best practices across all Data Centres by building close relationship with other DC Managers and peers
  • Expected to improve current processes, and introduce automation with aim towards simplification
  • Manages escalated support cases and leads appropriate internal technical resources and/or 3rd party vendors to resolution
  • Management of data centre infrastructure to provide a concurrently maintainable, cost effective system supporting 99.999% electrical uptime and 99.99% mechanical uptime. This includes capacity management of assets under safe operating design parameters.
  • Management of data centre cabling infrastructure supporting 99.99% uptime
  • Active participation in new data centre builds or expansions
  • Monitoring and alerting of all critical components
  • Ensuring comprehensive Root Cause analysis are completed for all incidents/outages
  • White space capacity planning
  • Quick responses to potentially critical situations
  • 3rd party vendor management and service delivery
  • Active involvement in network, physical and cyber security matters

Compliance, Audit & Risk:

  • Ensure compliance is maintained incorporating industry best practices
  • Ensure data centre facilities best practices are enforced, maintained and improved
  • Ensure data Centre cleaning standards are enforced and maintained
  • Implement company and departmental policies, processes and work instructions as per the agreed quality and timeline/RFS
  • Risk identification and mitigation
  • Ensuring adherence to all relevant standards and policies
  • Active involvement in all audits
  • Strong adherence to process
  • Ensure that inter-departmental OLA’s (Operational Level Agreement) are met

Information Security:

  • Identify and manage risks with regards the companies information assets & systems. This includes risks in regards confidentiality, availability and integrity.

SKILLS REQUIREMENT:
Finance

  • Forecasting of future spend
  • Monitoring and managing of budgetary spend
  • Budgetary reporting

Leadership

  • Innovate and make decisions on your own, but also know how to take direction when it is given
  • People management
  • Active involvement with staff onboarding
  • Guide and develop staff by working with HR to ensure skills, training and performance requirements are met
  • Defining of personal development plans for direct reports
  • Defining of measurable KPI’s for direct reports
  • Develop and grow relationships with other business units
  • Support and adherence to BEE targets when onboarding new resources
  • Effective communication across all relevant platforms
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of clients, colleagues and staff
  • Interact with all levels of the organization in a professional, and tactful manner
  • Provide guidance and mentorship to direct and indirect reporting staff
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Administrative duties

  • Scheduling of employee shifts, standby and after hour rosters
  • Ensuring compliance with internal policies and regulations
  • Change and incident management
  • Ensure adherence to all established guidelines and management practices for employees
  • Occupational Health and Safety responsibilities
  • Reporting accurately, as per agreed format, quality and timelines
  • Outstanding organizational skills, ability to prioritize effectively, and experience with technical project management

Client satisfaction

  • Ensure client satisfaction by providing an optimal level of customer service, in line with company objectives
  • Client support responsibilities can include, but is not limited to, client relations, responding to client inquiries and coordinating with other organizations
  • Meeting of defined client survey and reporting targets
  • Ability to understand client urgency and sensitivity of problem / incident / request

General:

  • Open to provide after-hours support as needed for significant issues
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Excellent technical abilities
  • Proactive problem solving

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

  • Electrical and/or mechanical qualification preferable
  • Cabling qualification preferable
  • Minimum 5 years relevant data centre experience
  • +5 years’ experience, managing teams, including line management, appraisals, performance reviews, hiring new team members, participating in disciplinary matters, financial management, etc.
  • Extensive knowledge on Data Centre environments and critical infrastructure systems e.g. Cabling, Cooling, Power
  • Experience of Data Centre KPIs (incident ticket related matters, time to solve tickets, physical security, infrastructure metrics, staff, safety, overall operations)

SHEQ, INFORMATION SECURITY, LEGAL AND OTHER REQUIREMNTS AND OBLIGATIONS:

  • Employees to demonstrate commitment to the requirements of the Integrated Management System by:
  • Taking reasonable care for the health and safety of himself/herself, others and the workplace.
  • Obeying all stipulated company rules, policies and procedures in compliance to the Occupational Health and Safety Act 85 of 1993, the Health & Safety Management Program, ISO 27001:2022, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 50001:2018 Standards.
  • – Report all unsafe or unhealthy conditions and threats that come to his/her attention that may affect persons or the business.
  • Ensuring the preservation of confidentiality, integrity and accessibility of information for the company and our respective clients.
  • Committing to the implementation and maintenance of our Quality Management System.
  • All company employees are responsible for the quality of their work and the protection of company and client information.
  • Committing to the implementation and maintenance of our Environmental Management System, environmental statutory and regulatory compliance and performance.
  • Committing to the implementation and maintenance of our Energy Management System, energy related statutory and regulatory compliance and performance.
  • Committed to the protection of personal information and POPIA or other relevant statutory and regulatory compliance and performance

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. 

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