Sr Data Center Operations Engineer - Dublin Site Lead

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About the Team

The Data Center Operations team is primarily focused on delivering Workday SaaS services and internal systems to support our SaaS applications. As a Data Center Operations Engineer you will help maintain Workday’s Data Center presence as part of a world-wide team of Data Center Operations engineers. You will help implement new data center infrastructures, plan and execute consolidations and decommissions as well as make improvements and upgrades to the current environment.

Data Center Operations Engineers work as a technical resource providing the assistance necessary for day-to-day data center operation. The engineers ensures minimal downtime of data center equipment and plays an active role in maintaining its mission-critical data servers, network and physical infrastructure.

The engineer must make sure that the issues are escalated appropriately. They should work with high concentration and attention regarding security issues including access rights and privileges, confidentiality and many other threats.

About the Role

The Data Center Operations Engineer provides all necessary assistance in regard to IT & Critical infrastructure. They ensure that the data center environment is secure and operational for our customers.

• Primarily focused on day to day Data Center, Server & Network hardware break-fix & large scale infrastructure consolidations.
• Participate in Capacity Planning projects to optimise utilization and efficiency of current data centre facilities 
• Participate in projects to identify, gather and monitor key data centre infrastructure and performance metrics.
• Participate in automation projects to reduce need for human interaction with repetitive day to day tasks 
• Conduct impact analysis and risk assessments of proposed design solutions
• Conduct analysis to create performance benchmarks to evaluate success of future deployments 
• Ongoing monitoring, measurement and review of new design solutions 
• Possess good knowledge of internal ticketing systems to provide proper customer service.
• Must identify and resolve complex  server hardware and operating system failures to include the replacement of failed hardware components.
• Receive, track and deploy server and network hardware.
• On site spares stock control, tracking and monitoring.
• Produce detailed consolidation and decommissioning plans and roadmaps.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 6+ Years working within a high availability & high security Data Center environment.
• 6+ Years experience following and implementing large scale technical infrastructure rollouts within a Data Center environment.

Other Qualifications

• Demonstrable understanding of the 4x key data centre constraints: Power, Cooling, Space, IT Connectivity 
• Demonstrable understanding of data centre resiliency and redundancy strategies 
• Can use and explain in detail data centre operation tools: DCIM, Power & Energy monitoring / BMS 
• 6+ years Working with standard ticketing and change management systems and processes
• Demonstrable expertise and experience with data center physical layer, racking and hardware maintenance.
• Can demonstrate and explain industry standards for copper and fiber cabling within a data center environment.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement (For EU Locations Only)

Listed below is the base salary range applicable to this position. Workday pay ranges (and the precise pay offered to the successful candidate) are based on a number of objective criteria such as relevant experience and skills, and educational qualifications, level of responsibility, demands of the role, work location and business need. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants awarded by Workday Inc. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.

 

Primary Location Base Pay Range: €77,600 EUR - €116,400 EUR Ireland

 

 

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