Data Centre Engineer Team Lead
Who are we?
At Technimove, we’re passionate about transforming the way the world’s leading IT service providers manage their data centres. As the market leader in Data Centre Transformations, we deliver high-quality Professional Services and Data Centre Migrations for global clients, from ambitious start-ups to some of the most recognisable names in tech.
Our secret weapon? Our people. Known as our TechniPeople, we’ve built a diverse, supportive, and ambitious team that thrives on collaboration, innovation, and passion. Some of our colleagues have been with us for over a decade, while many others are just starting their journey — but all share the same energy, drive, and love for what we do.
Location: Hayes
The Role:
We are seeking a Smart Hands Manager / Data Centre Engineer Team Lead to lead, manage, and deliver data centre smart-hands and physical engineering engagements to an exceptionally high standard.
Key Responsibilities:
• Provide operational and technical leadership to L1 and L2 engineers across a 24×7 shift-based environment, ensuring service continuity, quality, and operational readiness.
• Act as the senior technical escalation point for complex incidents, infrastructure failures, and customer-impacting issues.
• Collaborate with Consultancy and Project/Programme Management teams, and/or third parties, to plan, lead, and execute complex data centre installations, migrations, refreshes, and decommissioning activities.
• Lead and oversee advanced racking, stacking, structured cabling, patching, remediation, and infrastructure lifecycle activities.
• Own delivery and lifecycle management of high-density compute and AI infrastructure, including NVIDIA GPU platforms, Dell XE/XE9680, Lenovo ThinkSystem, Supermicro GPU systems, and Nokia AirFrame.
• Provide senior-level technical input and review of High-Level Designs (HLD), Low-Level Designs (LLD), runbooks, test plans, and Statements of Work (SoW).
• Support Sales and Pre-Sales teams by contributing technical insights, validations, and solution designs.
• Conduct and lead detailed site surveys to assess data centre readiness, capacity, risks, and operational constraints.
Experience:
Essential:
• Advanced experience and knowledge of data centre engineering and supporting infrastructure technologies.
• At least one industry certification such as: CompTIA Server+/Network+, CCNA/P, VMware VCP, Vendor hardware certifications (Dell, Lenovo, NVIDIA, Supermicro), Microsoft fundamentals in Azure and M365, ITIL Foundation.
Desirable:
• Cisco CCNP or Specialist certifications.
• VMware VCP-DCV.
• CNet CDCTP / CDCDP or BICSI certification.
• Advanced AI / HPC vendor certifications (NVIDIA, Dell, Lenovo, Supermicro).
• AWS, Azure, or GCP administrator or architect certifications.
Project management qualifications such as PRINCE2 or PMP.
If interested, please apply!