Sr Data Center Operations Engineer - Dublin Site Lead

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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.

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.

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.

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