Data Center Capacity & Inventory Manager

. Own a single, accurate, always-current view of the organization's worldwide data center estate.

Posted 9/26/2026contractRemote • Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, ChileMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tools & technologies

Cloud

Key responsibilities & impact

Own a single, accurate, always-current view of the organization's worldwide data center estate.
Consolidate fragmented facility information into an authoritative source of truth.
Turn inventory data into capacity forecasts, utilization reporting, and move/migration analysis.
Define and enforce standards for recording and reporting power, cooling, rack, and space configurations.
Analyze space, power, and cooling requirements for data center moves, migrations, and consolidations.
Supply capacity and utilization data for resourcing and planning decisions.
Identify sites approaching power, cooling, or space limits and recommend mitigation.
Uphold resilience, safety, compliance, redundancy, and disaster-recovery standards.
Maintain global facility, space, power, cooling, rack, asset, contract, and commitment inventories.
Track utilization and headroom at rack, row, room, and site levels.
Forecast capacity and recommend expansion, consolidation, or reallocation.
Produce reporting and dashboards for leadership, finance, and planning.
Define data standards, naming conventions, and audit cadence.
Run physical audits and reconcile findings against recorded data.
Partner with infrastructure/IT leadership, networking, cloud, security, procurement, finance, facilities teams, providers, and business units.

What you’ll need

Proven experience managing data center infrastructure at multi-site or global scale, ideally across a mix of owned and colocation facilities.
Deep, practical understanding of data center power, cooling, and physical space — circuits, PDUs, UPS and generators, redundancy concepts (N, N+1, 2N), cooling systems, and containment.
A demonstrated track record of keeping accurate inventory and capacity data current across many sites.
Experience planning and executing data center moves, migrations, consolidations, or build-outs.
Colocation and vendor management experience — contracts, SLAs, capacity commitments, and cost control.
Strong data and reporting skills, advanced spreadsheet skills, and comfort using BI or reporting tools.
Experience coordinating work across multiple regions, time zones, and stakeholder groups.
Data center certifications such as Uptime Institute (ATD/ATS), BICSI DCDC, or EPI CDCP/CDCS/CDCE (preferred).
Familiarity with DCIM platforms such as Nlyte, Sunbird, Device42, or Hyperview (preferred).
Knowledge of Uptime Institute Tier topology, ANSI/TIA-942, and ASHRAE thermal guidelines (preferred).
Exposure to hybrid environments including on-premises, colocation, edge, and public cloud (preferred).
Awareness of data center sustainability and energy-efficiency practices, including PUE and power reporting (preferred).

Comp & perks