Data Center Manager

Location: Naperville, Illinois, United States; regular on-site presence across assigned data center locations is required. The role includes after-hours maintenance windows, weekend changes, incident response, and critical infrastructure events.

Salary: $114,500–$194,700 USD base pay annually, plus a discretionary bonus program that may include equity.

Company

hirify.global provides wealth management, asset servicing, asset management, and banking services to individuals, families, corporations, and institutions.

What you will do

• Lead day-to-day operational readiness and physical infrastructure support across assigned enterprise data center locations.
• Oversee adds, moves, changes, decommissions, rack deployments, cabling, power coordination, hardware lifecycle work, migrations, and cutovers.
• Lead and develop site-based staff, contractors, vendors, skilled labor, and project-support resources.
• Govern workload intake, change documentation, Methods of Procedure, implementation plans, risk reviews, and execution readiness.
• Maintain audit-ready processes, accurate physical inventory, controlled documentation, workflow standards, and operational metrics.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, facilities, security, audit, procurement, vendors, and leadership teams while supporting evolving data center and colocation models.

Requirements

• 10 or more years of progressive experience in enterprise data center engineering, infrastructure deployment, site operations, or mission-critical technology operations.
• Experience leading physical infrastructure lifecycle work, hardware deployments, migrations, decommissions, cabling, power coordination, and live production support.
• Strong understanding of compute, storage, network, private cloud, hyperconverged, high-availability, and mainframe-class environments.
• Knowledge of structured cabling, single-mode fiber, copper cabling, high-density optical connectivity, labeling, and documentation standards.
• Working knowledge of data center power, cooling, UPS, generator-backed infrastructure, and environmental considerations.
• Experience with IT service management, change management, DCIM, asset management, inventory-control, or workflow-management platforms, plus strong stakeholder communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in financial services or other regulated, mission-critical technology environments.
• Experience supporting multiple data center locations, remote infrastructure, colocation models, migrations, modernization, or high-density deployments.
• Experience improving operational processes, intake models, change governance, documentation standards, and audit-ready workflows.
• Vendor management, purchasing, contract support, supplier coordination, and material or labor planning experience.
• Experience mentoring technical staff and building sustainable operating models.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible and collaborative work culture with accessible senior leadership and opportunities for internal movement.
• Retirement benefits including a 401(k) and pension.
• Medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, disability, life, and accident insurance.
• Paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, and other voluntary and well-being benefits.
• Inclusive workplace with reasonable accommodations available throughout the employment process.