Senior Associate, Data Centre Engineer
Ares Management
In this role you will support enterprise data centre operations across global sites, ensuring highly available and secure infrastructure. You will perform hands-on hardware installation, cable management, and power and cooling coordination while coordinating with facilities, vendors and cross-functional teams. You’ll help maintain accurate documentation and contribute to capacity planning and infrastructure modernization. This position offers a path to impact scalable, reliable data center services within a growing environment.
Responsibilities- Operate day-to-day data center and remote office infrastructure support
- Perform rack and stack for servers, storage, network and devices
- Install, configure, relocate, decommission, and maintain physical hardware
- Manage power, cooling, cabling, and environmental monitoring requirements
- Coordinate with facilities, colocation providers, network, security, and vendors
- Maintain rack elevations, cabling diagrams, asset inventory, and operational records
- Support hardware lifecycle management including procurement, deployment, and retirement
- Troubleshoot hardware issues and coordinate break-fix with vendors
- Support server platforms such as HPE, Dell, Cisco UCS, Lenovo or equivalents
- Assist with data center capacity planning and modernization initiatives
- Participate in disaster recovery and business continuity readiness
- Maintain SOPs, runbooks, documentation and diagrams
- Provide on-call and off-hours support as needed
- Engage with ITSM processes and incident management
- Assist with security remediation and audit support
- 6-10 years’ experience in enterprise data center or physical IT infrastructure
- Hands-on rack and stack, structured cabling, server hardware installation
- Experience with HPE, Dell, Cisco UCS, Lenovo or equivalent platforms
- Experience working with data center facilities, colocation providers, MSPs and vendors
- Strong understanding of power distribution, PDUs, UPS, HVAC and monitoring
- Experience maintaining rack elevations, cabling diagrams, asset inventory, power mappings
- Hardware troubleshooting, firmware updates, vendor case management, break-fix coordination
- Experience with Windows Server, Linux, VMware, networking, storage and backup from a data center perspective
- Familiarity with ITSM tools (ServiceNow) for incident/change/asset management
- Monitoring tools and out-of-band management interfaces (iLO, iDRAC, IPMI)
- Understanding of change, incident, asset management and risk controls
- Preferred understanding of disaster recovery, business continuity testing and data center recovery documents
- Planned maintenance, off-hours support and incident response experience
- Silicone certifications such as CDCP, ITIL, CompTIA Server+, Network+ are preferred
- Experience with data center infrastructure management tools and asset management platforms
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work with cross-functional teams
- HPE, Dell, Cisco UCS, Lenovo hardware platforms
- Windows Server, Linux, VMware
- Networking and storage devices
Reference: WJ-747_30162761