Lab Manager

Role: Lab Manager
Mode: Contract
Location: Houston, TX(Onsite)

·       Experience in data center operations
·       Planning and tracking the upcoming qualifications
·       Expert in Azure Devops powerBI and MS Excel
·       Coordinate with PM and Lab techs for day to day operations
·       Coordinate with MS qual leads about the progress update bugs qual report etc
·       Creating documents based on the new learnings and sharing with the team
·       Identify and suggest the areas of automation
·       Work 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 S
·       Review priorities between production and spares to create allocation plans for constrained materials
·       Coordinate with Logistics for packing and shipping the SKU to manufacturer
·       Support lab shipping receiving logistics and manage inventory of equipment and materials
·       Planning disaster recovery procedures
·       Maintaining current knowledge and understanding of security and networking best practices to offer the best solutions and protection to company systems
·       Manage lab as needed and maintain area in accordance with safety standards
·       Manage and maintain test hardware test racks and test equipment in the lab
·       Server Architecture and debugging the server components
·       Ability to troubleshoot and diagnose servers and technical issues
·       Handson experience with cabling power distribution rack mounting and other data center operations
·       Installing and Configuring Windows Ubuntu and CentOS operating systems ISO VHD using WDSSCCM PXE server and USB
·       Installing maintaining and supporting network equipment including VPN Firewalls routers proxy servers switches WAN accelerators SCCMPXE DNS and DHCP
·       Setup and maintenance of small cluster of Virtual Machine hosts hosting 100 Virtual Machines
·       Procuring network equipment and managing network installation
·       Designing and implementing new network solutions and or improving the efficiency of current networks
·       Configuring firewalls routers and switches to maximize network efficiency and security
·       Maximizing network performance through ongoing monitoring and troubleshooting
·       Arranging scheduled upgrades
·       Investigating faults in the network
·       Updating network equipment CISCO Arista Dell to the latest firmware releases
·       Reporting network status to key stakeholders
·       Implementing disaster recovery procedures
·       PowerShell scripting