Datacenter Operations Manager
Fortinet · Chicago, IL · Facilities/Data Centre
About this role
Fortinet is hiring a manager-level IT Manager in the operations function based in Chicago, IL. The posting calls out experience with Bash, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker. Compensation is listed at $90,000–$125,000 per year.
- Role
- IT Manager
- Function
- operations
- Level
- manager
- Track
- Management
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Chicago, IL
- Department
- Facilities/Data Centre
- Posted
- May 19, 2026
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Job description
from Fortinet careersThe Datacenter Operations Manager is responsible for the operational management of data center infrastructure located in Fortinet’s Chicago office. This equipment supports the FortiMonitor and FortiSASE products, both fast-growing product lines with ever-increasing capacity needs. The Chicago office houses both production FortiSASE hardware as well as development, QA, and testing hardware for FortiMonitor.
A successful Datacenter Operations Manager will:
- Effectively manage network and server equipment, including setup, configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair, as needed on a day-to-day basis.
- Understand the relationships between datacenter equipment and hard facility services, including lighting, plumbing, HVAC, fire safety systems, UPS, etc.
- Work with the larger Fortinet MIS team on larger datacenter planning, operations and compliance processes.
- Configure and manage monitoring and alerting systems to provide effective systems oversight and the ability to respond rapidly to incidents
- Oversee well-defined compliance processes covering SOC2 and ISO9001/27001/27017/27018, including user access reviews, permissions reviews, physical infrastructure reviews and cleanup, and evidence collection for audit cycles
Qualifications - Must have Kubernetes experience.
- 5+ years experience with physical datacenter infrastructure management, including servers, network firewalls, switches and routers, UPS and power backup equipment.
- Excellent organizational and collaboration skills as well as an ability to perform under pressure
- Ability to speak clearly & confidently about technology and internet concepts and interact with other technical parties