Director of Data Center Operations

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Director of Data Center Operations

at Pure Storage

Lehi, Utah

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What You Will Be Doing…

Pure Storage co-locations are a unique blend of development lab and production data datacenter under one roof. We are our own largest customer, and believe that proper utilization of our own products in both development and production capacities are key to our continued growth and success as a company.

In order to achieve success in your role as Datacenter Operations Director, you should expect to collaborate with and facilitate proper communication between multiple colocation stakeholders and datacenter operations teams on a regular basis. Stakeholders include representatives from various internal teams such as software engineering, hardware development, devops, and manufacturing. As such, you will ensure smooth operations of the facilities and its services to engineering. In order to achieve this, among other things, you should expect to collaborate with various employees and partners.

You will be responsible for leading an existing/growing team of 21 geographically distributed employees comprised of Datacenter Operations Technicians, Analysts and Supervisors in our Sunnyvale and Utah Data Centers. Guiding these teams through implementing standards, best practices, and overall vision will be critical to our operational success as we scale to keep up with company demands.

In this role, it is our hope that you will enjoy learning about and contributing to the process of developing leading edge/innovative storage technology from the ground up. We are committed to a culture of openness and transparency in both strategy and operations that in turn allows employees a deeper level of engagement in engineering and business decisions.

What You Bring To The Team…

Demonstrated understanding & experience of Data Center Management/Operations (i.e. Environmental Management, Power Management, Compute Deployment, Networking, and Space Management)

Ability to gather and communicate meaningful operational metrics (employee workload, system utilization, system uptime, deployment times, etc).

Some familiarity with DCIM, IPAM and other datacenter centric monitoring solutions (i.e. network monitoring, power monitoring, etc)

Understanding of industry security practices and compliance

Knowledge of colocation and internet service provider’s products and technologies

The ability to provide leadership, direction, team building, coaching, and decision-making with employees and peers

Minimum Requirements…

Proven success interacting with a variety of customers, employees, and partners on a regular basis

Experience with managing and facilitating proper communications among multiple geographically distributed teams.

Properly balancing priorities between multiple business units / customers, while identifying and resolving possible future conflicts between said stakeholders.

Managing multi-million dollar capex and opex budgets

Familiarity with proper root cause analysis and post mortem procedures regarding power, network or other datacenter related outages

Experience designing rack level systems and network architecture

Demonstrated knowledge of large scale IP networks.

Familiarity at least conceptually, if not first hand, with configuring enterprise grade storage appliances. NAS, Fiber Channel / iSCSI SAN, etc.

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Through our Pure Equality program, which supports a flourishing field of employee resource groups, we nourish the personal and professional lives of our team members. And our Pure Good Foundation gives back to local and global communities through volunteering and grants.

And because we understand the value of bringing your full and best self to work, we offer a variety of perks to manage a healthy balance, including flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events.

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Research shows that in order to apply for a job, women feel they need to meet 100% of the criteria while men usually apply after meeting about 60%. Regardless of how you identify, if you believe you can do the job and are a good match, we encourage you to apply.

Pure is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other characteristic legally protected by the laws of the jurisdiction in which you are being considered for hire.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at

TA-Ops@purestorage.com

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Company info

Pure Storage
Website : http://www.purestorage.com