DC ENGINEER

Qualifications

• 7+ years' experience with physical data center infrastructure
• Strong organizational skills, work prioritization, effective communication, and the ability to react quickly
• Experience working with ServiceNow
• Experience with change management
• Ability to lift, carry, and move up to 50 pounds when needed
• Maintain a positive work environment, encourage healthy organizational morale, and promote adherence to all policies and procedures
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment with tight timelines and changing priorities

• Understanding of core network design and topology
• Data center infrastructure utilization such as back-up power, generator technology,
• Experience managing a team
• Strong, interpersonal, written, and communication skills
• Ability to work weekends/off-hours and be on-call for emergencies
• Expert knowledge of structured cabling, fiber and copper
• Expert knowledge of data center power and cooling design
• Experience working with high and low voltage cabling vendors
• Experience with vendor management
• Experience with data center migrations
• Experience with DCIM tools (i.e. Nlyte, Device42, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Troubleshooting of cabling, power, and cooling of devices within an enterprise data center
• Create and follow documentation and processes that are used in preparation, installation and cabling of systems
• Validate successful installations
• Interface with vendors and contractors directly and via ticketing systems
• Pack/unpack servers, hardware, and other related equipment
• Attend and host team and vendor meetings to plan and schedule maintenance and repair work
• Innovate solutions to help streamline current processes
• Work with relevant groups to ensure all equipment is received and documented in a timely manner
• Manage and execute on projects independently
• Be part of an on-call schedule, and act as an initial escalation point
• Oversee weekend work regularly
• Ability to be flexible with schedule for unpanned off-hour incidents, emergency changes
• Perform capacity management
• Track spend against budget
• Build bill of materials, work with vendors and procurement to purchase hardware
• Design and execute solutions for data center hardware and systems
• Coordinate with facility management on maintenance of critical systems (UPS, generator, cooling, etc.)
• Provide various reporting to management (i.e. budget/spend, ticketing metrics, data KPI's, etc.)
• Work with internal towers for projects
• Conduct and attend engineering meetings
• Act as site lead driving day-to-day activities as well as driving the entire lifecycle of projects
• Coordinate with data center management on high level strategy
• All work to be conducted on-site