An extraordinarily talented group of individuals work together every day to drive TNS' success, from both professional and personal perspectives. Come join the excellence!
The PDU Power Infrastructure Manager is the global owner and subject matter expert for the company's PDU infrastructure. This role is responsible for monitoring, alarming, firmware management, lifecycle planning, inventory strategy, and technology standardization across the global network footprint.
The role also partners closely with business units, engineering, procurement, and operations teams to forecast growth, develop capacity strategies, and ensure PDU infrastructure is aligned with current and future business needs.
The successful candidate will provide technical leadership for intelligent PDU platforms while developing long-term strategies that ensure a reliable, scalable, and supportable power infrastructure.
Serve as the primary technical owner for all deployed PDU platforms globally.
Maintain and manage approved PDU standards, product selections, and deployment guidelines.
Evaluate new PDU technologies and provide recommendations for adoption and standardization.
Manage monitoring, alerting, and reporting for the global PDU estate through Nlyte and other approved monitoring platforms.
Develop and maintain alarm thresholds, escalation procedures, and operational standards.
Coordinate firmware upgrades, security updates, and vulnerability remediation activities.
Develop and execute lifecycle management and replacement strategies for all PDU assets.
Track warranty, end-of-sale, end-of-support, and end-of-life milestones.
Maintain accurate asset inventory and support forecasting for refresh and expansion initiatives.
Work closely with business units to forecast growth and infrastructure demand, translating business requirements into PDU capacity plans, inventory forecasts, lifecycle replacement schedules, and budget recommendations.
Partner with Procurement and Logistics to ensure adequate inventory is available for growth and replacement activities.
Manage vendor relationships, product registrations, RMAs, and support escalations.
Monitor market trends, product roadmaps, and supply chain risks.
Support emergency replacements and major incident response involving PDU infrastructure.
Experience managing intelligent PDU infrastructure in enterprise, data center, or colocation environments.
Experience with PDU monitoring, alarm management, firmware administration, and remote management platforms.
Experience managing hardware lifecycle programs, inventory, and technology refresh initiatives.
Experience working directly with equipment vendors and support organizations.
Strong knowledge of intelligent PDUs and power distribution technologies.
Understanding of SNMP, infrastructure monitoring, and alerting platforms.
Knowledge of firmware management and vulnerability remediation processes.
Understanding of data center power concepts, including voltage, amperage, load balancing, and redundancy.
Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
Experience with APC/Schneider Electric, Vertiv, Geist, Raritan, or similar PDU platforms.
Experience with Nlyte or other DCIM tools.
Experience supporting global infrastructure deployments.
Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and asset lifecycle planning.
Power BI or data analytics experience.
Automation or scripting experience (PowerShell, Python, APIs).
Project management experience.
Vendor management and contract administration experience.
The ideal candidate has hands-on experience managing enterprise PDU environments and can assume responsibility for monitoring, alarm management, firmware governance, lifecycle planning, inventory strategy, and vendor engagement. This individual will serve as the organization's primary subject matter expert for PDU infrastructure.
For US candidates, we anticipate paying $90,000 - $105,000 annually. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided, considering each candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. TNS offers a competitive benefits package, including medical and dental coverage, life insurance, paid holidays and vacations, and a 401(k) plan with company match.
If you are passionate about technology, love personal growth and opportunity, come see what TNS is all about!
TNS is an equal opportunity employer. TNS evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.
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