Data Center Support Services Technician
Key Responsibilities
Datacenter Services Operations-Break/Fix and Hardware Maintenance:
-Replaces server components, upgrades servers, and proactively maintains hardware to ensure efficient performance for its entire lifecycle, leveraging established protocols and guidelines.
-Installs power distribution units and/or replacement hardware, removing and troubleshooting hardware without disturbing critical infrastructure, as needed.
Datacenter Services Operations-Network Configuration, Installation, and Augmentation:
-Implements designed and defined network communications and solutions, including cabling and networking equipment environments.
-Validates cabling, checking network environment build and connectivity is established, verifying that devices are connected and error free, with limited supervision.
Technical Support and Trouble Shooting-Technical Support and Trouble Shooting:
-Monitors and responds in ticketing environment, guiding less experienced technicians or implementing technical solutions to enhance and/or troubleshoot the system within Service Level Agreements (SLAs) against assigned ticket, documenting steps or resolutions involved in maintaining the environments.
Safety and Compliance-Safety, Security, Compliance, and Documentation:
-Drives adherence to all established Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)/Maintenance Operation Protocols (MOPs) when performing tasks, ensuring all work stays in sync with site rules, colocation vendor rules, signs-off within a data center and/or customer site environments.
-Upholds required established security procedures, considering applicable local regulations -Ensures compliance with health and safety guidelines (including personal protection equipment, site access, or specific data site compliance) during on-site work at customer locations and at office, under some supervision.
Continuous Improvement:
-Helps facilitate training that aligns with corporate objectives and adheres to SOPs and MOPs for operational Data Center Change Control processes.
-Begins to identify repeating problems or trends, escalating issues to senior peers and operations team, and engaging global team about local issues.
-Begins to analyze issues for repeating problems or trends, escalating identified issues to external experts and operations team, and engaging global team about local issues.
Collaboration, Vendor Relations, and Leadership-Collaboration, Vendor Relations, and Leadership:
-Works with project teams/colocation partners to properly test and validate the installation, operation, and performance of electrical/mechanical systems and coordinate site utility requirements.
-Begins to act as a technical liaison for technical teams and provides subject matter expertise to identify and resolve resiliency, reliability, and availability risks.
-Ensures that contractors and vendors are delivering quality services and that all SLAs are being met.
-Begins to contribute to quality assurance through process creation and assists in the training of less experienced peers.
Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
-Completes moderately complex and/or ambiguous assigned tasks in accordance with project requirements. Shifts priorities and resources according to team needs, with some direction.
Collaboration & Partnership:
-Collaborates with team to deliver impactful work and provide support for team objectives. Leverages understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs to build partnerships within immediate and related teams.
Problem Solving:
-Follows procedures to identify and resolve moderately complex or non-routine issues, escalating as needed. Collects and reviews data and/or information to troubleshoot errors, and helps team address routine issues.
Continuous Learning:
-Actively seeks to build new knowledge and learn new skills and/or tools in one's area of specialization and relevant domains. Listens to, addresses, and seeks feedback, and role models proactively pursuing training to improve performance.
Continuous Improvement:
-Recommends ideas to increase efficiency and effectiveness of non-standard processes, protocols, and workflows.
Education and/or Experience:
3 years of experience in client-facing, direct customer support and service, data center, or related field experience
OR
High School Diploma, General Educational Development, or equivalent AND 2 years of experience in client-facing, direct customer support and service, data center, or related field experience
OR
Associate Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Center Operations or related field AND 1 years of experience in client-facing, direct customer support and service, data center, or related field experience.
Job Skills:
Customer Service: Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality customer service, resolving issues with professionalism.
Troubleshooting: Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues.
Network Support: Demonstrated ability to manage and troubleshoot network infrastructure and connectivity.
Hardware Support Demonstrated experience diagnosing and repairing hardware issues in support of IT operations.
IT Infrastructure/Server Trouble Shooting Experience:
2 years of experience in IT infrastructure, data center services, or server administration.
Preferred Job Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
4 years of experience in client-facing, direct customer support and service, data center, or related field experience
OR
High School Diploma, General Educational Development, or equivalent AND 3 years of experience in client-facing, direct customer support and service, data center, or related field experience
OR
Associate Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Center Operations or related field AND 2 years of experience in client-facing, direct customer support and service, data center, or related field experience.
Cloud Environment (Hyperscale) Experience :
1 year of experience in hyperscale cloud environments.