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Data Centre Manager
Job in
Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa
Listed on 2026-01-21
Listing for:
Manpower SA (Pty) Ltd
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-01-21
Job specializations:
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Management
Operations Manager, Program / Project Manager
Job Description & How to Apply Below
manages and supervises teams of employees within the Data Centre. The role is required to oversee equipment maintenance, inventory, customer service, contractor management and employee management.
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
- 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
- Identify and manage risks with regards the companies information assets & systems. This includes risks in regards confidentiality, availability and integrity.
Finance
- Forecasting of future spend
- Monitoring and managing of budgetary spend
- Budgetary reporting
- 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
- 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…
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