Data Center Infrastructure Platform Manager

Pacific Life

Remote Actively hiring
Remote, USA · Charlotte, NC Posted 25 days ago $138,150–$168,850 / year
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TL;DR

The Data Center Infrastructure Platform Manager role at Pacific Life in Charlotte, North Carolina involves overseeing the day-to-day operations of a critical data center and computing platform team within a larger division of 29 professionals. This senior-level position requires leading a team to ensure high availability, efficiency, and security while aligning with strategic goals set by executive leadership. Key responsibilities include executing operational roadmaps, capacity planning, implementing best practices for compliance and security, managing vendor relationships, and supporting disaster recovery plans. The ideal candidate has over eight years of experience in data center management, IT infrastructure, and people leadership, along with expertise in virtualization platforms like VMware and Nutanix, storage systems, and cloud technologies. They should also be familiar with compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001 and HIPAA, possess strong communication skills, and have hands-on experience with automation tools for optimizing data center performance.

Skills

VMware Nutanix ISO 27001 SOC 2 HIPAA GDPR Disaster Recovery Planning Incident Management Automation Tools Public Cloud Providers Container Platforms Infrastructure as Code Automated Configuration Management Terraform AWS Azure

What you'll do

  • Execute the operational roadmap for data center operations to align with business and IT objectives.
  • Lead a team of infrastructure professionals, ensuring high availability, efficiency, and security.
  • Oversee capacity planning to ensure scalability and optimal resource utilization.
  • Implement industry best practices for security, compliance, and operational efficiency.
  • Manage vendor relationships and support contract negotiations for facility management and hardware procurement.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience in data center management or related fields with people leadership.
  • Strong understanding of networking, server infrastructure, cloud technologies, and hybrid environments.
  • Expertise in virtualization platforms (VMware, Nutanix), storage, backup, disaster recovery.
  • Familiarity with compliance frameworks like ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR.
  • Ability to build and lead high-performance teams, manage budgets, optimize costs.
  • Experience with automation tools for data center performance optimization.

Market check

Salary context

This $138,150–$168,850 range sits above 37% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$130,450–$224,200

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$142,400–$223,175

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Pacific Life

Pacific Life is a life insurance company offering a wide range of life insurance, annuity, and investment products and services to individuals, businesses, and pension plans. Industry: Life Insurance & Annuities

Pacific Life currently has 26 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $137,610–$168,190 across 26 roles with salary data.

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