Sr Data Center Engineer
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Summary
Senior data center engineer in Broomfield, CO who installs and maintains mission-critical infrastructure: white-space design for power, cooling and space, cabling and rack moves, asset lifecycle management in CMDB/DCIM, CAD planning for high-density deployments, and on-call rotation for connectivity, power and cooling issues.
Sr Data Center Engineer needs 5 years experience performing maintenance and installation of mission critical infrastructure systems in a Data Center.
Sr Data Center Engineer requires:
- Good collaboration skills with proven experience engaging with and partnering with peers and stakeholders. Experience providing IT technical customer support.
- Good written and oral communication skills.
- Knowledge of IT infrastructure hardware, including their designs, uses, repair and maintenance.
- Ability to use DCIM and CAD software to aid in data center white-space capacity planning.
- Solid Microsoft Office skills and experience using Collaboration software such as Microsoft Teams/SharePoint and Zoom.
- Capability to work in a physically demanding environment.
Sr Data Center Engineer duties:
- Design and prepare data center white space to ensure power, space, cooling (airflow/temperature), and infrastructure standards are met.
- Provide general IT Infrastructure skills with a systematic approach to troubleshooting equipment issues.
- Provide process execution for data center IT asset lifecycle management from installation to operational support, and ultimately asset retirement. Installation/de-installation of network cabling throughout data center and similar hardware; ensures PII data is handled within guidelines.
- Manages daily workload and after-hours support of on-site cable vendors. Consists of both physical project instructions as well as issuing operational work requests via Service Now.
- Move equipment, racks, and materials between physical locations in the same data center.
- Creates CAD templates and sets new design standards for High-Density deployments.
- Generates/distributes reports connected to the operation of a data center.
- Provide support to engineers to understand VLAN and network requirements for new IT infrastructure technologies.
- Perform Asset Management tasking in Configuration Management Database (CMDB) and maintain CAD and Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) elevation/floorplan data.
- Prepares electrical quotes and manages circuit installation, prepares cabinets with power distribution, and maintains PDU schedules.
- Acts as the first point of contact for connectivity, power, cooling anomalies and perform on-call roles on a rotational basis.