Datacentre

Summary: The role of Datacentre Planner involves planning, coordinating, and forecasting datacentre capacity across multiple facilities. The position requires collaboration with IT and facilities teams to manage hardware deployment and optimize datacentre resources. The planner will also be responsible for maintaining datacentre layouts, managing inventory, and ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory standards. This is a 12-month contract position based in a hybrid working environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan, coordinate, and forecast datacentre capacity (power, cooling, space, network) across one or more facilities.
• Collaborate with IT and facilities teams to define and manage hardware deployment roadmaps.
• Develop and maintain datacentre layout designs, rack elevations, and physical hardware placements.
• Monitor utilization of datacentre resources to identify potential constraints and drive infrastructure optimization.
• Manage the datacentre inventory lifecycle, including tracking of assets from procurement to decommission.
• Ensure datacentre plans comply with safety, security, and regulatory standards.
• Create documentation and reports for management regarding datacentre capacity, asset tracking, and planning initiatives.
• Support project management for infrastructure expansions, migrations, and hardware refreshes.
• Utilize DCIM (Datacenter Infrastructure Management) tools to maintain accurate records and visualizations.
• Evaluate new technologies and practices to improve datacentre efficiency.
• Maintain and support enterprise Wintel environments (Windows Server 2016/2019/2022) and RHEL infrastructure.
• Monitor and manage storage infrastructure (SAN/NAS), including provisioning, tiering, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Support backup, recovery, and high-availability strategies across platforms.

Key Skills:

• Experience in datacentre capacity planning and management.
• Knowledge of DCIM tools and infrastructure optimization techniques.
• Familiarity with enterprise Wintel environments and RHEL infrastructure.
• Strong project management skills.
• Ability to create documentation and reports for management.
• Understanding of safety, security, and regulatory standards in datacentres.
• Experience with storage infrastructure management (SAN/NAS).
• Proficient in backup, recovery, and high-availability strategies.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Havant

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT