Datacenter Engineer dcTrack

Project overview

Job Title: Datacenter Engineer dcTrack

Reference: 26-04-6801-003

Responsibilities

Training:

Primary Skills:

Important Skills:

• Perform inventories and field surveys; ensure the reliability of equipment, their locations, and connections in dcTrack before and after each migration.
• Prepare target layouts and verify the availability of locations, power supplies, and ports, with network teams and technical facility managers.
• Create and track change requests and Work Orders in dcTrack; prepare intervention files and obtain required validations before execution.
• Plan and coordinate external providers: specify tasks and deliverables, confirm resources and access, monitor commitments, and address discrepancies.
• Organize site surveys, labeling, dismantling, transport, reassembly, and recabling, with the relevant teams and providers.
• Prepare migration procedures, validation criteria, and rollback plans; coordinate decision points with authorized managers.
• Coordinate the execution of interventions and technical tests with system, network, and application teams; monitor incidents and trigger necessary escalations.
• Verify the conformity of work, track reservations, and formalize the acceptance of services with the relevant managers.
• Produce reports and dashboards: progress, schedule deviations, risks, actions, and expected decisions.
• Close Work Orders, update operational files, and capitalize on lessons learned after each migration wave.
• dcTrack training.
• VMware VCF training.
• At least five years of experience in operational datacenter management, including concrete participation in a migration or infrastructure relocation in production.
• Proven operational mastery of Sunbird dcTrack: inventory, modeling of rooms and racks, equipment placement, network and electrical connections, change requests, and work orders.
• Experience in ensuring the reliability of dcTrack data: field surveys, imports and exports, consistency checks, traceability, and post-intervention updates.
• Mastery of planning external provider interventions: workloads, resources, dependencies, maintenance windows, deadline monitoring, and service control.
• Good knowledge of physical infrastructures: racks, servers, storage, networks, copper and fiber cabling, PDUs, and A/B power redundancy.
• Ability to prepare migrations: prerequisites, sequencing, risk analysis, intervention and rollback procedures.
• Good command of spoken and written French and ability to work with technical documentation in English.
• Management of physical capacities (rack space, electrical power, and connectivity), in coordination with technical facility managers.
• Practice with change management processes and planning, ticketing, and documentation tools.
• Knowledge of x86 server and VMware environments and their availability constraints.

Nice to have

Required Qualities:

• Integration of DCIM with a CMDB or ITSM tool, automation of checks and data exchange via API or scripts.
• Knowledge of Power IQ, energy monitoring, and multi-site datacenter environments.
• Rigor, organizational skills, and reliability in tracking data and interventions.
• Ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders and ensure commitments are met.
• Clear communication, teamwork, service orientation, and risk anticipation.

Project details

Geneva

Desired Start Date: 01.02.2027

100%

Compensation: from 125,000 CHF / year

Job Description and Context:

We are seeking a datacenter engineer with expertise in the dcTrack tool for a client, a public administration in Geneva, to strengthen their team responsible for x86 virtualization and Windows servers.

The successful candidate will prepare and coordinate infrastructure migrations between the organization's datacenters. They will ensure the reliability of the DCIM repository, plan operations, and monitor external providers, in coordination with internal teams. Long-term mission (up to 5 years).

• Start: flexible
• Location: Geneva, Geneva, CH
• Languages: French