Senior Lab Admin
On-siteSanta Clara, California, United States
Job Summary
Own day-to-day operations and operational readiness for assigned onsite and offsite lab or data center spaces, including coordinating hardware deployments, equipment moves, and bring-up activities with engineering and operations stakeholders. Manage the physical infrastructure lifecycle for assigned lab areas, covering equipment, cabling, power, connectivity, and environmental readiness while maintaining inventory, rack elevations, and operational procedures. Identify operational risks and readiness gaps, drive issues to closure, and partner with engineering, IT, logistics, facilities, operations, and vendors to deliver reliable lab support and infrastructure services. Establish and improve standards for lab safety, organization, access, cabling, inventory control, documentation, and change management. Provide day-to-day guidance and informal mentoring to junior lab administrators to promote consistent operational practices.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years of experience in lab operations, data center support for on-premise and colocation centers, IT infrastructure, hardware operations, or a related hands-on technical environment
- Demonstrated ability to independently manage lab operations, deployments, or infrastructure projects involving multiple stakeholders
- Hands-on experience with rack-and-stack activities, hardware installation, power connections, and structured copper and fiber cabling
- Experience creating or maintaining rack elevations and topology diagrams
- Experience with fiber optic handling and cable management, maintaining neat, well-organized cabling and consistently applying industry best practices for routing, labeling, bend-radius control, and fiber protection
- Ability to troubleshoot physical readiness, connectivity, cabling, and hardware deployment issues methodically and safely
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail in a fast-moving environment with shared equipment and competing priorities
- Ability to coordinate work across engineering, IT, logistics, facilities, operations, and external vendors
- Ability to improve processes, establish repeatable standards, and communicate operational expectations to others
- Comfortable lifting and moving lab equipment and working in physical infrastructure environments for extended periods as needed
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Associate or bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
Desired Qualifications
- Understanding of networking principles and technologies, including TCP/IP, VLANs, routing, and switching
- Experience supporting high-performance computing, networking, optics, silicon, or AI infrastructure labs
- Familiarity with lab automation, asset-management, ticketing, monitoring, or infrastructure documentation tools
- Basic scripting experience with Python, Bash, or similar languages
- Experience mentoring junior team members or coordinating work across a small operations team
- Experience supporting maintenance windows, change management, access controls, security requirements, or vendor service visits
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