Regional Data Centre Manager

As our Regional Data Centre Services Manager, you'll be responsible for managing the Data Centre (DC) facilities infrastructure across iomart DC sites in the North region, which includes 3 sites in Manchester, 1 in York, 1 in North Wales, 1 in Nottingham, and 1 in Leicester. This role is based in Manchester and will require travel to the other DC sites. Additional responsibilities include:

• Managing the North DC infrastructure's availability, performance, resilience, and cost-efficient delivery to support iomart's service and product delivery to our clients.
• Maintaining asset management for the North DC sites.
• Overseeing all North DC M&E and HVAC systems.
• Managing both North DC infrastructure teams and partners who provide specialist vendor support and maintenance.
• Driving operational excellence consistent with good industry practices for the North DC sites.
• Building capital investment plans for asset replacement or capacity expansion in the North DC.
• Maintaining North DC infrastructure Business Continuity Plans (BCP) and participating in Disaster Recovery (DR) exercises.
Success will be measured through Operational Excellence KPIs, including the number of Major Incidents, Mean Time to Failure, M&E Planned Preventive Maintenance (PPM), Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), Customer Satisfaction (CSAT)/Net Promoter Score (NPS), Employee Satisfaction (ESAT), Change Execution Success, and Infrastructure Asset Accuracy & Supportability.


• Have an excellent technical understanding of DC infrastructure and tooling including latest tools, techniques, and innovation to improve environmental sustainability.
• Have knowledge with managing Data Centre space & power utilisation including understanding Data Centre HVAC, Power Distribution, Data Centre UPS, Cable Plant Layout and Environmental monitoring systems
• Have an M&E technical background and qualifications in IT DC Management (CDCMP and/or CDCDP)
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills
  
  iomart is the UK's leading Secure Cloud Managed Services Provider. We are passionate about delivering Hybrid Cloud, Data Protection, Cyber Security and Secure Connectivity to over 9,000 organisations in the UK and globally.
• We have over 25 years expertise in data centre and cloud services
• Over 500 skilled professionals and turnover over £127m
• Our HQ is in Glasgow and offices across the UK.
• We provide critical services across all public and private sectors.
  
  Salary: Competitive + excellent benefits
• Holiday Trading Scheme - buy or sell part of your annual leave allowance
• Flexible and Hybrid working
• Day off on your birthday
• Enhanced paternity, maternity and adoption leave
• Access to our excellent flexible benefits scheme