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Teraco is the first provider of resilient, vendor neutral data environments in South Africa. Clients benefit from the cost savings and improved resilience of securely housing their information systems and networking equipment in a colocation facility purpose-built and operated to global best practic… read moree by an expert organisation with an absolute focus on data centre technology and infrastructure. Founded in 2008, Teraco Data Environments has brought international best practice in vendor neutral data centre management to South Africa to give businesses a technically superior, physically safer and lower cost environment for their information systems. Teraco operates facilities in Rondebosch – Cape Town (CT1), Riverhorse Valley – Durban (DB1) and Isando – Johannesburg (JB1) . Teraco data centres are located on the fibre rings of the major licensed carriers in South Africa, including Telkom, Neotel, Broadband Infraco and Dark Fibre Africa all of which have fibre nodes within the facilities. Teraco Campus Isando Johannesburg
MAIN FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB
Collaborate with the data centre team to understand, develop and approve the data centre mechanical system designs for new data centre construction and system enhancement projects.
Designs will include DX Cooling systems, chilled water systems, direct and indirect free cooling systems.
Review and approve basis of design documents, capacity calculations and mechanical schematics.
Review and approve all Commissioning and system testing strategies for each project.
Constant enhancement of mechanical systems to ensure high level of efficiency.
Infrastructure design, implementation and testing to deliver a concurrently maintainable, cost effective solution supporting 99.999% electrical uptime and 99.99% mechanical uptime.
Conduct working methods to ensure all SLA and MSA’s are achieved.
Ensure all parts of the designs can be monitored and connected back to the BMS system for overall system monitoring and management.
Review, approve and provide all hand over documentation to the Data Centre operations team.
Data Centre Operations
Review and approve all mechanical maintenance procedures.
Create safe work procedures for all mechanical maintenance to be done on all systems.
Ensure applicable planned and corrective maintenance is managed in accordance to ensure customer MSA’s and SLA’s are achieved.
Ensure all maintenance and systems complies to local legislation and standards.
Provide training to the operational team on the design and operation principles of the mechanical systems.
Compliance
Maintain compliance in accordance to all relative policies and procedures
Support the HR department in achieving the organization developmental plan deliverables within agreed timelines
Meet agreed inter-departmental OLA (Operational Level Agreement)
H&S monitoring and corrective action to meet statutory compliance, SLAS and good business practice
Implement company and departmental policies, processes and work instructions as per the agreed quality and timeline/ RFS
Critical System Management
Conduct working methods to maintain agreed PUE levels
Task finalization and report accurately, as per agreed format, quality and within the agreed timelines
Provide national technical support to operational data centres
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Excellent technical design and calculation abilities.
Knowledge of mechanical, control, fire and BMS systems will be an advantage.
Effective communication skills, active listener ability to understand requirements
Proactive problem solver, perform rapid and accurate assessments
Ability to work independently, as well as being a positive team player
Self-motivated
Conducts self professionally, exhibits elevated levels of tolerance and patience Responsible for continued learning and self-development
Quick response to potentially critical situations
Trouble shoot systems and components to identify root causes of failures
Implement corrective actions promptly to mitigate the negative effects of system changes
Advance Microsoft Office skill
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