Lead Data Center Engineering EEMEA Director, Specialist Sales – Send

  • Full Time
  • Gauteng

Website Mastercard

For 50 years, we've been using our technology and expertise to make payments safer, simpler and smarter. Innovation is at the heart of Mastercard’s 50-year history. We take an innovative, value-driven approach to the solutions we create and services we offer, making transactions faster, easier, an… read mored more convenient and secure. One of the many ways in which we innovate is through our culture and people. We hire talented, inventive employees. We also encourage all employees to participate in efforts that cultivate innovation in local communities such as STEM programs. In addition, we showcase innovation through products such as MasterpassTM and tokenization to deliver value to consumers, merchants and banks alike. And, through outreach to developers and entrepreneurs, we are helping to facilitate improvements across the payments ecosystem that will generate future innovations. By underpinning innovation in everything we do, we are transforming the way people pay and get paid, helping businesses grow, improving the shopping experience and advancing financial inclusion around the world. 2nd Floor, 23 Melrose Boulevard Melrose Arch, Melrose North 2196 Johannesburg South Africa

About The Role

Serve as the technical authority for assigned data centers, ensuring infrastructure designs and implementations align with global standards and best practice
Deploy and maintain IT infrastructure within colocation data center facilities.
Manage relationships and daily operations with colocation providers and vendors.
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to senior and junior data center engineer
Interface with sourcing, vendors, and colocation providers during RFPs, contract renewals, and technical evaluations
Coordinate engineering activities across multiple data center projects, ensuring dependencies, risks, and timelines are actively managed
Coordinate and oversee third-party integrators during installations and maintenance.
Handle contract reviews, renewals, and compliance with colocation service agreements.
Provide hands-on support during operational outages, including occasional on-call duties
Maintain accurate documentation of hardware assets, cabling, and network layouts.
Collaborate with internal teams to support infrastructure scaling and capacity planning.
Coordinate with colocation vendor to collect required documents for internal/external audit and site assessment
Demonstrate drive and curiosity by continuously learning and teaching yourself new skills.
Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, demonstrating your technical prowess and contributing to the overall success of the projects.

To excel in this role, you should have:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Understanding of networking protocols, hardware, and data center infrastructure.
Experience with cabling, racking, and equipment installation in a colocation environment.
Proficiency in data center technologies (power, cooling, etc.)
Understanding of physical and network security standards in data centers.
Hands-on experience with server, storage, and virtualization platforms.
Ability to perform cabling diagnostics and troubleshooting independently.
Strong documentation, communication, and coordination skills for client and team interaction

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