About the position
Are you a highly analytical, self-motivated Data Center Engineer with a passion for server hardware, meticulous cabling, and operational excellence? Our team is looking for a results-driven individual to join us in supporting servers at our customer's state-of-the-art data centers. If you balance strong technical diagnostics with superior attention-to-detail and thrive in both independent and team settings, we want to hear from you!
Responsibilities
- Hardware Lifecycle Management: Executing end-to-end hardware operations, including staging, setup, startups, and shutdowns (racks, hard drives, switches) using precise checklists and standard protocols.
- Diagnostics & Troubleshooting: Performing rapid diagnostics, quickly identifying root-causes, and replacing faulty components to ensure minimal business disruption.
- Quality & Compliance: Conducting rigorous post-execution quality checks, ensuring proper grounding, staging, labeling, and cabling alignment with safety protocols and Network Design Tasks (NDTs).
- Operational Excellence: Efficiently completing assigned tickets in alignment with KPIs and SLAs. You'll maintain a strong sense of accountability for service quality and facility ownership.
- Knowledge Contribution: Actively providing feedback, creating technical documentation (KB Articles, SOPs, lessons learned), and contributing to our central knowledge library.
- Safety & Teamwork: Participating in daily safety briefings, adhering strictly to safety procedures, and proactively collaborating within a local or geographically dispersed team.
Requirements & Qualifications
- 2+ years of experience as a Data Center Engineer.
- Exceptional server hardware knowledge with a deep understanding of component and system-type failures.
- Solid experience with IPMI utilization in diagnostics and administering software tools (diagnostics, FW updates).
- Experience with real-time issue resolution during new deployments.
- Proficiency in Windows Server OS & WinPE OS administration, with basic Linux and Windows scripting experience (PowerShell, Python, Bash preferred).
- Competence in Network troubleshooting across Layer-1, Layer-2, and Layer-3.
- Experience with Virtual Machine setup and environment configurations.
- Associate degree in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent experience.
- Certifications preferred: CompTIA A+, CompTIA Server+ (or equivalent), CCNA, and MCP/MSCE.
- Experience with Linux PXE services is a plus.
Desired Skills:
- PowerShell
- Python
- Bash preferred)
- linux
- data center
