**Must have Bachelor's degree and be open to 100% travel (Monday through Friday)**
 **Can be located in most major US Cities**

Prestigious Profession Services firm is seeking someone who has come up through Data Center technologies (system and facilities) and has participated in the migration, relocation, consolidation of data centers. As well as had leadership, project lead, project management, or formal management over these areas. Prefer someone who has worked for another professional services firm as these people will have worked on multiple Data Center moves, but will look at super-polished candidates that have extensive Data Center experience and leadership skills. No contractors or job hoppers and must have excellent soft skills.

Job Description:

This position will focus on delivering projects in the field of platform technologies including data center rationalizing (DCR) studies/opportunity assessments, server/storage/data center consolidation business case and assessments. As a part of platform technology specialty, these individuals will possess skills in datacenter operational technologies ranging from technical skills such as operating systems and server/storage hardware to business effectiveness skills such as establishing total cost of ownership (TCO) models for datacenters and developing a business case for cost saving opportunities.

Key Responsibilities may include:

The position will require strong client facing skills and an acute understanding of consulting. The candidate will operate in both a functional Project manager capacity for existing/ongoing data center rationalization projects, and as sales/engineering support for newly identified opportunities. 100% travel requirement.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience with datacenter rationalization, consolidation, relocation, or migration
• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Skills:

• Experience planning and executing Datacenter consolidations, relocations, and migrations.
• Hands on experience designing and building new datacenters.
• Ability to preform infrastructure discovery and assessments and provide technical solutions.
  • Demonstrated holistic understanding of Datacenter Operations (i.e. Production operations, Server, Storage, Network, Data Base Mgt., Systems Mgt., Helpdesk, DR/Business recovery practices etc.).
  • Familiarity with functional operations of server, storage, and network functions.
  • General understanding of all data center functions (production operations, network, change control, DR/Business recovery, helpdesk, systems management, and facilities) with a focus on server, storage, and database technologies.
  • Holistic understanding of the interdependencies of data center functions and technologies.
  • Datacenter/Server Consolidation Project Experience.
  • Server Platform Technologies ( Unix/Wintel/MVS - HP/Sun/IBM etc.) skills.
  • Storage Platform Technologies (SAN/NAS) including Hardware & Software (EMC/NetApp/Sun/IBM/HP etc.).
  • Server/Datacenter Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
  • Datacenter/Server Operational Components (Monitoring, Management, etc.).
  • Asset Management (Experience with tools/process) Other Technologies (VMware, Virtualization, etc.).
  • Facilities Management (Power, HVAC, Hard Wire Topologies, etc.).
  • Sales/engineering support for technical proposals.

Professional Skill Requirements:

• Program/Project Management