Kenya
Job Description
Description
Reporting to the Data Center & Operations Lead, the Data Center Operations Engineer ensures uninterrupted operations of data center infrastructure, including power, cooling, and security systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Data center uptime (99.999%).
- Reduction in energy consumption & operational costs.
- Number of preventive maintenance incidents successfully mitigated.
- Compliance with security and regulatory frameworks
- Oversee power, cooling, security, and access control in the data center.
- Schedule and execute proactive maintenance of critical assets.
- Ensure redundancy, failover systems, and recovery protocols are in place.
- Adhere to ISO 27001, Uptime Institute, and regulatory standards.
- Deepen team connection to our customers and communities.
- Foster authentic relationships with customers and partners that build trust.
- Explicitly take customer-centric decisions and take personal ownership to achieve results. drive strategy and performance.
- Show ambition and courage, empowering others to go beyond the plan.
- Bold and challenge teams to reimagine how things are done.
- Create psychological safety so everyone can have an impact.
- Identify innovative opportunities and key constraints for business development, diversification, and growth.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, IT, or equivalent.
- Certifications: CDCEP, Accredited Operations Specialist,
- Experience with HVAC, UPS, DCIM, and power distribution systems.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Data center uptime (99.999%).
- Reduction in energy consumption & operational costs.
- Number of preventive maintenance incidents successfully mitigated.
- Compliance with security and regulatory frameworks
- Oversee power, cooling, security, and access control in the data center.
- Schedule and execute proactive maintenance of critical assets.
- Ensure redundancy, failover systems, and recovery protocols are in place.
- Adhere to ISO 27001, Uptime Institute, and regulatory standards.
- Deepen team connection to our customers and communities.
- Foster authentic relationships with customers and partners that build trust.
- Explicitly take customer-centric decisions and take personal ownership to achieve results. drive strategy and performance.
- Show ambition and courage, empowering others to go beyond the plan.
- Bold and challenge teams to reimagine how things are done.
- Create psychological safety so everyone can have an impact.
- Identify innovative opportunities and key constraints for business development, diversification, and growth.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, IT, or equivalent.
- Certifications: CDCEP, Accredited Operations Specialist,
- Experience with HVAC, UPS, DCIM, and power distribution systems.
About Us
We are the leading telecommunication company in East Africa. Our purpose is to transform lives by connecting people to people, people to opportunities and people to information. We keep over 42 million customers connected and play a critical role in the society, supporting over one million jobs both directly and indirectly while our total economic value was estimated at KES 362 Billion ($ 3.2 billion) for the 12 months through March 2021. We are listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) and with annual revenues of close to KES 298 Billion ($2.5 billion) as at March 2022. We were founded in 1997 as a fully owned subsidiary of Telkom Kenya before a 40 percent acquisition by Vodafone Group PLC in May 2000, and a public offering of 25 percent shares through the NSE in 2008. Under the management of Vodafone Group PLC, we welcomed Michael Joseph, as our first CEO, a few months later in July of 2000. He led the company’s growth to accommodate 16.71 million subscribers from the previous 20,000, largely owing to innovative products like M-PESA in 2007.
About the Team
We are the leading provider of converged communication solutions in Kenya. In addition to providing a broad range of first-class products and services for Telephony, Broadband Internet and Financial services, Safaricom seeks to uplift the welfare of Kenyans through value-added services and support for community projects. To achieve all this, we are ever-reliant on our competent and dependable staff who make it possible for us to achieve greater heights for our customers.
