Senior Data Center Engineer

Appealing Points:

• Shape Critical Data Center Infrastructure: Lead both day-to-day operations and strategic data center build, migration, and decommissioning projects, ensuring reliable and scalable IT infrastructure.
• End-to-End Infrastructure Project Exposure: Gain hands-on experience in infrastructure design, capacity planning, vendor management, change management, and collaboration with data center operators and telecommunications providers.
• Opportunity to Drive Strategic Improvements: Contribute to operational excellence, cost optimization, business planning, and large-scale infrastructure initiatives while working with cross-functional teams in a mission-critical environment.

Annual salary: 7 Million yen and Above.

Job Responsibilities:

In this role, you will be responsible for both day-to-day operations and strategic data center build/decommissioning projects:

• Daily Operations: Service monitoring, incident management, maintenance coordination, change management, capacity planning, and vendor management.
• Build & Decommissioning: Designing and procuring data center infrastructure across Japan, ensuring delivery aligns with project timelines and requirements.
• Strategic Initiatives: Depending on your experience, you will contribute to operational improvements, cost management, project support, and business planning.
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless infrastructure integration.

Job Qualifications:

• Basic knowledge of data center facilities (e.g., racks, power, cooling, optical cabling, patch panels).
• Experience using multiple data centers as a tenant, including access control and hands-on work within data halls.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to coordinate and negotiate effectively with stakeholders such as data center operators and telecommunications providers.
• Proven experience working as a team member on IT infrastructure-related projects.
• Approximately 5+ years of relevant professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working as a technician or in facility management at a data center operator.
• Experience in infrastructure operations based on the ITIL framework.
• Experience in IT workload capacity planning and management.
• Hands-on experience in data center-related IT infrastructure projects, including build, migration, and decommissioning.
• Experience in budget planning and cost control.
• Relevant certifications such as ITIL, PMP, CDCP, DCPRO, or BICSI.

Language Requirements: Professional proficiency in Japanese (JLPT N2 or above) and business-level English.

About Company:

The largest eCommerce company in Japan, and the third-largest eCommerce marketplace company worldwide. The organization provides a variety of consumer and business-focused services including e-commerce, e-reading, travel, banking, securities, credit card, e-money, portal and media, online marketing, and professional sports. The company is expanding globally and currently has operations throughout Asia, Western Europe, and the Americas.

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. Skillset Required: Data Center Operations, Data Center Build, Data Center Migration, Data Center Decommissioning, Infrastructure Design, Capacity Planning, Vendor Management, Change Management, Data Center Infrastructure Procurement, Service Monitoring, Incident Management, Maintenance Coordination, Operational Excellence, Cost Optimization, Cost Management, Cost Control, Business Planning, Cross-Functional Collaboration, IT Infrastructure Integration, Data Center Facilities Knowledge, Racks, Power, Cooling, Optical Cabling, Patch Panels, Access Control, Data Hall Hands-On Work, Communication, Stakeholder Coordination, Stakeholder Negotiation, Data Center Operator Collaboration, Telecommunications Provider Collaboration, IT Infrastructure Project Management, Project Timeline Management, Project Support, Data Center Technician Experience, Facility Management, ITIL Framework, IT Workload Capacity Planning, IT Workload Management, Budget Planning, Large-Scale Infrastructure Initiatives, Operational Improvements