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DC Ops Technician III - US

Richardson-dfw3, TXOnsiteFull Time$52,015–$76,251 /yrPosted 1 month ago

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Required skills

  • US Citizen
  • High School Diploma
  • 2-years’ experience
  • data center environment
  • build
  • repair
  • upgrade hardware components
  • storage RAID configurations
  • lift 50 lbs

Role summary

The Data Center Operations Technician III is responsible for maintaining IT infrastructure and customer server environments within the data center, ensuring security, operation, and 99.999% uptime. Key duties include monitoring a ticketing system, providing customer support, troubleshooting and upgrading server hardware, operating systems, and storage. The role also involves installation and testing of network cabling and hardware, including switches, firewalls, and load-balancers, as well as storage devices like DAS and NAS arrays. This position requires hands-on hardware modification, OS installation, and cabling completion for customer maintenance requests.

Job Summary: The Data Center Operations Technician owns the responsibility of all IT Infrastructure, including customer configurations, within the data center environment ensuring all customer server environments are secure, operational and maintain 99.999% uptime.

Work Location/Days/Hours:

  • Richardson, TX Onsite
  • Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon,
  • 11pm to 7:30am

Key Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for monitoring and prioritizing an internal ticketing system to provide customer support.
  • Provide basic operating system storage troubleshooting, along with storage upgrades, hardware troubleshooting and Raid configuration changes.
  • Provide hardware support and upgrades for servers running Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Server, Ubuntu Linux or VMWare ESX Server.
  • Simple operating systems administration can include, setting up OS network IP’s, fresh OS installs (using PXE), Firmware updates and basic OS troubleshooting.
  • Installation or removal of fiber or copper cabling. Along with Layer 1 network skills, that will include testing, as well as connectivity issues with previously deployed copper or fiber cabling.
  • Installation of network device hardware including switches, firewalls, load-balancers and security appliances.
  • Installation of hardware on storage devices including DAS and NAS arrays
  • Complete customer maintenances requests that include hardware modification, operating system installation, mounting of the devices within cabinets and completion of all cabling needs to be required.

Qualifications:

  • Must be a US Citizen.
  • High School Diploma or equivalent is required.
  • 2-years’ experience working in a data center environment.
  • Able to build, repair or upgrade hardware components.
  • Strong understanding of storage RAID configurations and requirements.
  • Must be able to lift 50 lbs. overhead

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