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A brand new role has arisen with a global company in Tewkesbury as a Data Centre Operations Manager.

We are looking for an experienced Manager to run a high availability data centre located physically and in the cloud, providing an optimal secure environment for the hosted solutions that are supplied globally.

The successful Data Centre Manager will have a team of 4 highly technical engineers, it will be your responsibility to set up and manage a formal 24x7 operation. You will own the strategy for the department and make important decisions on how the team will operate moving forward.

As the Data Centre Operations Manager, you will also have responsibility for establishing change control. You will liaise with the Development team and agree when and how software will be deployed, as a result any experience with in a DevOps environment would be very beneficial.
You will need excellent communication skills as you will be engaging directly with customers global security teams, giving them the confidence that their data and business systems are secure.
REQUIREMENTS:

* Industry related Degree or equivalent experience.
* Significant experience in an IT operational data centre management/senior role.
* Experience working with in a high pressure environment with rapid response times.
* Enterprise scale commercial experience covering the full life-cycle (Microsoft Platforms and SQL Server).
* Demonstrable experience improving service, quality, and efficiency.
* Ability to build strong relationships across all levels of the organisation and with third party suppliers.
* Experience of operational change management with the ability to prioritise and manage workload.
* Knowledge of cloud technologies (Azure and AWS).

Big Red are recruiting for this role exclusively and interview dates are confirmed for the 26th February. For more information please send your CV or call the office for an informal conversation.

Data Centre Operations Manager
Tewkesbury - commutable from Cheltenham, Gloucester, Worcester, Evesham,
£60,000 - £75,000 plus a car allowance, pension, life assurance, corporate discounts and subsidised canteen (which is amazing!)

Key words: Data centre, high availability, operations manager, head of Infrastructure, data centre manager, product hosting services, continuous improvement, software release, deployment, jira, confluence, Linux, windows, docker, RabbitMQ, Redis, system monitoring, WhatsUp Gold, pingdom, SOC 2 compliance, SOC II, DevOps,


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