Data Center Manager

Performive LLC•Marietta, GA

2d•$95,000 - $100,000•Onsite

About The Position

CloudFirst is seeking a Data Center Manager to work from our location in Marietta, GA. This is an on-site position with two direct reports. CloudFirst is a leading managed cloud, cybersecurity, and infrastructure services provider focused on helping midsize enterprises modernize operations, improve resiliency, and accelerate business growth. CloudFirst also offers a comprehensive health benefits package, including a 4% 401(k) company match with immediate vesting and a Flexible Time Off (FTO) program. The Data Center Manager owns CloudFirst’s physical data-center footprint and multisite facilities operations, keeping every environment stable, secure, and audit-ready while running facilities as a cost-accountable function. This role leads the on-site data-center operations team, manages colocation and vendor relationships, and is accountable for facility capacity, cost, and compliance across CloudFirst’s data centers.

Requirements

Proven experience managing data-center facilities or operations, including leading an on-site team.
Budget or P&L accountability for a facility, department, or site.
Multisite or colocation operations experience, including managing remote sites through contractors and smart-hands.
Working knowledge of physical data-center infrastructure: power, cooling, rack and cabling, power density, and shipping and receiving of hardware.
Cost discipline and vendor management: negotiates, tracks, and allocates spend, and holds providers to their commitments.
Strong documentation habit: builds guides, runbooks, and asset records that let others carry the work.
Clear written and verbal communication, and the ability to coordinate geographically distributed teams and partners.
Leadership of a small on-site team, with attention to detail and strong organizational and time-management skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience producing and maintaining physical-security and environmental compliance evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001, or PCI DSS audits.
Data-center facilities certification (for example Uptime Institute or a recognized DC operations program).
Familiarity with enterprise and IBM Power hardware and with colocation providers.

Responsibilities

Own day-to-day operations of CloudFirst’s data-center facilities, including the Atlanta data center and partner and colocation sites, and manage the on-site data-center operations staff.
Manage colocation and vendor relationships (colo providers, smart-hands and contractors at remote sites), and own the associated contracts, service levels, and costs.
Carry facility cost and P&L accountability: build and manage the facilities budget, track and allocate deployment and facility costs to projects and clients, and drive cost efficiency across sites.
Maintain physical-controls compliance evidence for ISO 27001, SOC 2, and PCI DSS, including data-center access logs, CCTV, badging, and environmental monitoring, and support internal and external audits.
Own the hardware and asset lifecycle: inventory and asset tracking across the fleet, stock thresholds and availability, shipping and receiving, deployment, and decommissioning.
Manage capacity and planning: power density, rack layout, cooling, and growth planning across the footprint.
Lead facility build-outs, consolidations, and closures with cost discipline, including site transitions and decommissions.
Maintain facilities documentation: installation guides, runbooks, and site templates, so operations are repeatable and transferable.
Build coverage depth: cross-train and document so critical facility functions have more than one trained, access-provisioned owner.
Take full ownership of the Atlanta data-center operations and the colocation-provider relationship, and complete the knowledge transfer from the outgoing owner.
Produce a facilities cost and capacity baseline across the footprint (spend, power, rack, and growth headroom).
Confirm the physical-controls audit evidence is current and owned, with no gaps ahead of the next audit cycle.
Deliver a coverage plan so no critical facility function depends on one person.