Senior Labs Project Manager

Senior Labs Project Manager

  

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Job Description:

   

We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Labs Project Manager to join our Data Center Operations team. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with hardware, including clustered servers, blade systems, and storage solutions. This role focuses on the virtual and physical environments, working with existing lab personnel, ordering, updating, and maintaining these environments for the Private Cloud Control Plane Development and Quality Engineering organizations.

Periodic work in Ft. Collins Data Center to manage issues that cannot be fixed remotely.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with development teams to develop capacity models and forecasts based on business growth, usage trends, and emerging technologies,
• Maintain an inventory of existing hardware and assess opportunities for reuse before new purchases.
• Develop hardware redeployment, upgrades, and refurbishment strategies to extend asset life.
• Collaborate with finance teams to create budget estimates for hardware procurement and infrastructure expansion, identifying cost-saving opportunities by leveraging lifecycle management and existing resources.
• Communicate technical requirements and capacity planning strategies in business terms to non-technical stakeholders.
• Plan and allocate physical space within data centers to support hardware deployments.
• Work with facilities teams to ensure proper power and cooling requirements are met.
• Develop standardized capacity planning methodologies and best practices.
• Maintain documentation on forecasting models, infrastructure plans, and approval workflows.
• Setting up virtual environments for development and quality engineering teams. This includes understanding the environment, and the hardware requirements for cabling and switching.

About You

• Bachelor’s degree in: Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in capacity planning, infrastructure management, or IT resource forecasting.
• Expertise in designing and implementing physical labs and environments, including port mapping.
• Expertise in hardware, networking, and data center operations.
• Experience with budgeting, procurement, and financial planning in an IT environment.
• Proficiency in data analysis tools and capacity planning software.
• Experience working with cloud and hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) frameworks such as ITIL.
• Familiarity with automation and monitoring tools for capacity planning.
• Experience with industry leading operational tools.
• Experience with Linux, KVM, VMWare, IP Address Management (IPAM).

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job:

Engineering

Job Level:

TCP_04

    

"The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.
– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 111,000 - 211,000 in Colorado
The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered."

Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html

The estimated job application period closure is July 1 2026; this timeline is provided for transparency and internal planning purposes.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.

   

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