Supervisor, Data Center Customer Operations

Who are we?

Joining our operations team means being at the center of everything – maintaining and evolving critical infrastructure that powers the digital world and delivers real impact for our customers, communities and society. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you—because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work.

Job Summary

Provides immediate supervision to a unit or group of employees. Assigns tasks and monitors work at frequent intervals. Maintains schedules and workflow of the team. 

Responsibilities

Leadership

• Provides immediate supervision to a unit or group of employees

• Assigns, instructs, and supervises the team

• Plans core duties for the team to complete

• Ability to manage and supervise a project team

• Manages personnel compared to workload (could include support from other Data Center’s

• Ensures staff are fully trained on current functional operational procedures, ticketing system operational procedures, and safety; ensures full compliance with quality assurance program.

• Strong operational discipline with the ability to enforce processes and standards

• Coach team members on communication quality, standards, and execution

Systems Support

• Troubleshooting and fault resolution of reported/detected faults by investigating the issue, identifying the cause and implementing the required fix

• Summarizes the findings during the troubleshooting and produces Incident Reports for the customer

• Performs troubleshooting and supports customers

• Report and tracking Monthly, quarterly and Annually KPIs.

Installation

• Understands customer cabling requirements, performs site surveys, provides cost estimates to Sales and installation of new cables

• Performs testing of cables before handing to customer

Vendor Management

• Manages, briefs, and instructs vendors for installation, testing, and labeling 

Maintenance

• Performs preventive maintenance to IBX equipment to prevent faults from occurring

Project Management

• Handles multiple projects and assists in designating work to team

Technical Expertise

• Extensive knowledge in network and equipment platforms, systems, and circuits

Qualifications

Typical Degree & Years of Experience

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree in engineering, Electronic Engineer, System Engineer, Telecommunication Engineer or equivalent experience

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, fluent Spanish, High English level (C1) and Portugues good to have

• · Data Center or high availability infrastructure operations experience preferred

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This posting is for a backfill position, meaning it is to fill an existing vacancy within our organization.