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Responsibilities
Primary focus in Managing IT Allocation at the Campus/Metro level by collaborating with key stakeholders and ensuring that demands are properly allocated across the IT infrastructure.
Familiarize with the Data Center design and manage the IT resources by performing virtual failure analysis and develop a master allocation plan to drive the operationalization of the customer capacity.
Ensure compliance with data center business units and service-level policies.
Engage with appropriate teams and resources to execute tasks or projects.
Manage programs associated with the area of responsibility.
Demonstrate conscientiousness on cost adheres to budget requirements; keep costs reasonable and contribute to staying within budget.
Follow and adhere to safety and security policies and procedures. Report immediately any safety or security issues or concerns.
Participate in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) process as appropriate.
Raise risks to the IT capacity allocation and planning. Identify power stranding and contractual inconsistencies (leased spaces).
Ensure that the critical environment information is properly entered and maintained (tooling).
Lead programs and projects through leadership forums aligning scope, schedule, and cost that align to our OKRs.
Service Delivery
Manage the assigned projects or programs to meet service delivery objectives and escalate to appropriate stakeholders to remove obstacles.
Recognize potential customer impact of other events and issues (e.g., customer lockdown), communicate potential impact, and plan for impact accordingly.
Proactively review schedules and avoid conflicts when possible. Identify, coordinate, manage expectations, and offer alternatives when defining customer solutions.
Manage relationships with vendors and suppliers to ensure that all expectations are clarified, understood, documented, and met.
Data Center Work Environment
Share best practices; assist others in learning role, process, procedures.
Collaborate and engage with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across CO+I and engineering groups to gain program / project insights.
Leverage and synthesize these insights to develop and operationalize solutions that mitigate our customer gaps.
Provide mentorship across data centers for specific expertise.
Seek training opportunities that meet the interest of the business as well as own career goals and objectives.
Suggest ways of reducing risk of performing maintenance; work with others to accommodate scheduling needs.
Suggest improvements in implementation based on depth of understanding.
Contribute to a positive team environment by learning and adopting best practices.
Contribute constructively during team meetings and in cross-discipline collaborations within the service team.
Recognize priority of team success over individual achievement.
Collaborate and negotiate effectively with others and seek guidance from management to identify delegates to deliver results.
Ownership
In alignment with management priorities, hold self-accountable for the end-to-end service quality, completeness, and resulting customer experience (including but not limited to availability, safety, security, customer service). Support escalation of issues to appropriate owner.
Other · Embody our Microsoft One culture and values.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Bachelores in Electrical Engineering or equivalent AND 3+ years’ experience supporting critical service infrastructure operation, maintenance, projects in large-scale OR equivalent experience.
Fluency in English language skills.
While not required, we also look for the following Preferred Qualifications:
Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
5+ years’ experience in Critical Environment infrastructure (e.g., UPS, PDUs, Generators, AHU/CFM, ability to read and interpret electrical one-line diagrams and working with IT infrastructure modifications (e.g., Cable trays, Fiber Runners, HACs and IT equipment).
1+ years’ experience working within a Datacenter environment, focusing on Capacity and Planning or Energy Resource
1+ years’ experience in IT Critical Space and understanding of IT Allocation (e.g., Diverse Cluster density, quanta, patterns)
Background Check Requirements
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
