Technical Program Manager, Datacenter Operations

Job Description

Job Title: Technical Program Manager, Datacenter Operations

Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Technical Program Manager, Datacenter Operations with our client located in Bluffdale, UT.

Job Description:

• This is a coordination role, not an engineering one.
• You do not need to build the infrastructure, but you do need to understand it well enough to hold a schedule together and ask the right questions.
• It is onsite and highly interactive — you will be in the building, in change windows, and on the floor.
  
  
  

Job Responsibilities:

• Maintain project schedules, track dependencies, and keep milestones visible to the teams that depend on them.
• Track action items and open issues out of standups and change reviews, and drive them to closure.
• Coordinate physical work with the datacenter operations team and vendors: rack-and-stack scheduling, RMA and repair flows, and asset tracking.
• Run the status cadence — standups, written updates, and the risk and issue log.
• Keep Jira and Confluence current, and maintain runbooks and infrastructure diagrams.
  
  
  

Job Qualifications:

• Datacenter environment experience. 2–3 years working in or directly alongside a production datacenter. Familiar with racks and elevations, cabling, change windows, and physical access procedures.
• Technical fluency. Enough working knowledge of servers, storage, and networking to follow technical discussions, read a rack elevation, and scope work accurately. Comfort with general systems administration concepts.
• Project coordination. Experience running technical project schedules and managing a high-volume ticket queue, ideally in Jira.
• Organization and follow-through. A reliable system for tracking commitments across many parallel threads, and the persistence to close them out.
• Communication and interpersonal skills. Writes clear, specific status updates and works easily with hardware technicians, remote engineering teams, and vendors.
  
  
  

Nice To Have:

• Prior time on a datacenter DevOps, infrastructure, or systems administration team.
• Familiarity with enterprise storage systems and storage networking
• Familiarity with fleet validation and return-to-production workflows.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Management, Data Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 2-3 years of experience in program management at data centers or similar operations.
• Experience supporting teams to deliver projects in a constantly evolving environment.
• Experience with process documentation, process mapping, and workflow improvements.
• Excellent problem-solving and advanced data analytics skills.
  
  
  

Job Details:

• Job Type: Contract
• Pay Rate: $45-$52/hr
• Location: Bluffdale, UT
  
  
  

Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO) and an administered 401k plan.

About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.