Lab Manager

Role: Lab ManagerLocation : Houston, TX & Tukwila WA

Experience in data center operationsPeople managementPlanning and tracking the upcoming qualificationsExpert in Azure Devops powerBI and MS ExcelDriving PM planning TRR meetingsCoordinate with offshore and Onshore teamCoordinate with PM and Lab techs for day to day operationsCoordinate with MS qual leads about the progress update bugs qual report etcCreating documents based on the new learnings and sharing with the teamIdentify and suggest the areas of automationWork with Supply Chain and Capacity Planning teams on planning the qualifications of different components DIMMs HDD SATA SSD M 2 NVMe E1 L and E1 SReview priorities between production and spares to create allocation plans for constrained materialsCoordinate with Logistics for packing and shipping the SKU to manufacturerSupport lab shipping receiving logistics and manage inventory of equipment and materialsGood Communication with Customer and internal teamsPlanning disaster recovery proceduresMaintaining current knowledge and understanding of security and networking best practices to offer the best solutions and protection to company systemsManage lab as needed and maintain area in accordance with safety standardsManage and maintain test hardware test racks and test equipment in the labServer Architecture and debugging the server componentsAbility to troubleshoot and diagnose servers and technical issuesHandson experience with cabling power distribution rack mounting and other data center operationsInstalling and Configuring Windows Ubuntu and CentOS operating systems ISO VHD using WDSSCCM PXE server and USBInstalling maintaining and supporting network equipment including VPN Firewalls routers proxy servers switches WAN accelerators SCCMPXE DNS and DHCPSetup and maintenance of small cluster of Virtual Machine hosts hosting 100 Virtual MachinesTraining sessions within the teamPosition is 100 in person during business hours Following customer holiday calendarProcuring network equipment and managing network installationDesigning and implementing new network solutions andor improving the efficiency of current networksConfiguring firewalls routers and switches to maximize network efficiency and securityMaximizing network performance through ongoing monitoring and troubleshootingArranging scheduled upgradesInvestigating faults in the networkUpdating network equipment CISCO Arista Dell to the latest firmware releasesReporting network status to key stakeholdersImplementing disaster recovery proceduresPowerShell scripting