Data Center Technician
Maintains and expands data centers supporting AI/ML infrastructure by installing, troubleshooting, and repairing servers, networks, and hardware. Requires 3-5 years data center experience, Linux knowledge, physical lifting ability, and on-call availability.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Install and upgrade data center equipment racks, including switches, routers, monitoring systems and other large scale networking gear
- Monitor, audit, and perform ongoing diagnostics, maintenance, and/or decommissioning on existing and new data center servers and network infrastructure
- Maintain integration and deployment tooling
- Participate in on-call rotation and root cause analysis as needed to respond to server, network, and hardware issues
- Maintain an inventory and event logs of data center processes
- Complete assigned tickets to uphold tight SLAs and respond to requests in a timely manner
- Report actual or suspected security and/or policy violations/breaches to an appropriate authority
Requirements
- Associate’s Degree or equivalent practical experience and knowledge of various Linux Distros
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience in data center environments, operations, IT, or related fields
- Ability to work long and/or on-call shifts that may include evenings/nighttimes, weekends, and/or holidays
- Ability to physically lift equipment at least 50 pounds
- Exceptional attention to detail and ability to troubleshoot intricate terminal systems, swap out failed components, and repair servers (discrete/rack-based)
- Knowledge of the installation of software and firmware updates, OS, PXE
- Familiarity with RAID, SAN, x86 architecture, Command Line Interface, Boot Processes, GRUB/LILO, File Systems, network device and protocol configuration
- RMA processing and coordination with the Logistics Team
- Handle storage media/Data Bearing Device (DBD) Reconcile/Physical Audits
- Flexibility to travel to various data centers as needed
Preferred Qualifications
- Applicable certifications: CompTIA (Server+, Network+) or CCNP
- Networking: TCP/IP, ICMP, SSH, DNS, HTTP, SSL/TLS, Storage systems, RAID, distributed file systems, NFS/iSCSI/CIFS
- Core OS Services: SSH, telnet, FTP, NFS, DNS, DHCP, LDAP
- Experience with NVIDIA GPU linux software stack
- Configuration Management - Chef
- Version Control - GitHub
- Containerization - Docker
- Container Orchestrators - Mesosphere/Kubernetes
- Virtualization - QEMU/KVM
- Network hardware - Arista/Cisco/Fortinet
Skills
Linux, Raid, San, X86 Architecture, Command Line Interface, Pxe, Nvidia Gpu, Docker, Kubernetes, Chef, GitHub, Cisco, Arista, Nfs, Ssh
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