Job Description
The purpose of a Data Centre Engineering Lease Engineer is to design, implement and optimise data centre infrastructure solutions across leased environments by ensuring high availability, resilience, cost efficiency, and alignment to business and technical requirements, while supporting lifecycle management, vendor engagement, and infrastructure performance.
Job Objectives:
- Data Centre Engineering & Architecture • Analyse infrastructure environments across compute, storage, virtualisation, and Unix platforms to ensure performance and resilience
- Review architecture designs and recommend improvements aligned to business and technical requirements
- Monitor platform health, capacity, and utilisation to support scalability and efficiency
- Document standards, configurations, and engineering practices to ensure consistency
- Improve lifecycle management practices through continuous review and optimisation
- Leadership & Operational Support • Monitor team activities and support prioritisation to ensure timely delivery of work
- Diagnose operational issues and support resolution across engineering domains
- Review workloads and recommend improvements to resource utilisation and efficiency
- Support escalation handling by investigating complex incidents and recommending solutions
- Document processes and improve operational practices to enhance stability and performance
- Backup, Recovery & Continuity • Analyse backup and recovery environments to ensure data protection and reliability
- Monitor recovery objectives and test disaster recovery processes to validate readiness
- Diagnose recovery failures and resolve issues to improve resilience
- Review continuity processes and recommend improvements aligned to business needs
- Document recovery procedures and support ongoing optimisation
- Business Engagement & Solution Delivery • Analyse business and application requirements to support infrastructure solution design
- Recommend scalable and supportable infrastructure configurations
- Support delivery of projects, migrations, and infrastructure initiatives
- Review solution performance and improve alignment to business expectations
- Work collaboratively to support integrated, cross-functional solution delivery
- Vendor & Cost Optimisation • Monitor vendor performance and support service delivery against agreed standards
- Analyse vendor solutions and recommend improvements or alternatives
- Support cost optimisation initiatives through infrastructure and service reviews
- Review procurement inputs and document recommendations for decision-making
- Improve vendor engagement practices to enhance service quality and efficiency
Qualifications:
A relevant IT Qualification
Experience:
- +5 years’ experience in data centre infrastructure engineering, operations or similar - (essential)
- Experience with virtualisation, storage, Unix/Linux and backup technologies with the necessary Qualifications - (essential)
- Experience working with vendors and managed service providers - (beneficial)
- 2 year leadership experience (beneficial)
Knowledge and Skills:
- Exposure to leased data centre environments and infrastructure optimisation - (beneficial)
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