Datacenter Facility Lead

Cognizant

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Work type: On-site
Location: Elk Grove Village, ILWayzata, MN
Salary: $79,000–$90,000 / yr
Posted: 7 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.

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TL;DR · Datacenter Facility Lead

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The Datacenter Facility Lead joins the Cloud Infrastructure and Security team to manage day-to-day data center facility operations and site execution activities. The role involves coordinating work orders, maintenance windows, and technician assignments while performing rack-and-stack, device installation, basic cabling, labeling, and connectivity tasks. Responsibilities include leading hardware decommissioning, providing smart-hands support for remote engineering teams, monitoring equipment conditions, and maintaining detailed work logs and asset records. The successful candidate must possess experience in enterprise data center operations, infrastructure deployment, and physical security controls. Key skills include troubleshooting, stakeholder management, and familiarity with ITIL-based service delivery, incident management, and change governance. This position solves operational challenges related to infrastructure refresh, migration, and deployment projects within a regulated data center environment.

Skills

Data Center Operations Rack-and-Stack Hardware Installation Structured Cabling Hardware Decommissioning Smart-hands Support Asset Lifecycle Management Inventory Controls ITIL Incident Management Change Management Work Order Management Physical Security Infrastructure Deployment Migration Monitoring Reporting

What you'll do

Coordinate daily site work, work orders, technician assignments, and maintenance windows.
Perform rack-and-stack, device installation, basic cabling, and labeling tasks.
Lead hardware decommissioning including verification, removal, and records updates.
Provide smart-hands support for remote engineering and operations teams.
Monitor local facility conditions and route alerts to resolver teams.
Maintain work logs, installation records, asset updates, and status reports.
Enforce site safety, physical security, change governance, and quality standards.

What we're looking for

5+ years of experience supporting enterprise data center operations, facility management, or infrastructure deployment environments.
Strong experience with rack-and-stack activities, hardware installation, basic cabling, and hardware decommissioning.
Experience providing smart-hands support for server, network, storage, and infrastructure teams.
Experience with monitoring, reporting, asset tracking, work order management, and operational documentation.
Understanding of data center operational procedures, physical security controls, and change management processes.
Strong communication, documentation, analytical, troubleshooting, and stakeholder management skills.
Familiarity with ITIL-based service delivery, incident management, and operational support models.
Ability to lift up to 40lbs. of hardware as required.

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