Datacenter Technician
united states
Randstad Digital is seeking a Data Center Technician for an exciting opportunity in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Managing and creating MOSI tickets when directed by team lead.
Providing technical support to building occupants and addressing their maintenance requests.
Participating in emergency response activities and coordinating with other departments to ensure the safety of building occupants during emergencies.
Assisting IT engineers in installing IT infrastructure, including servers, networking equipment, and storage systems.
Assist with tracking of power utilizations and plan for future power requirements via Enivronet and other tools.
Maintain documentation of data center, including Visio drawings, power location, power utilization, cooling utilization, etc.
Responsible for the FLIR report to manually double check the heating and cooling sensors.
Responsible for helping to reduce waste in the data center by working with individual teams to verify excess components that can be removed from the data center.
Learning safety requirements and regulations for proper data center operations as indicated by the agency and NIST.
Keep track of standard preventative maintenance schedules for all equipment. And communicate and coordinate with effected teams.
Participating in on-call rotation and responding to emergencies outside of normal business hours. On-call is considered to be a 24-hour shift agreed upon by the team in advance.
Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience. • Five (5) or more years of experience in Facilities related roles. • Understanding of power, cooling and other environmental systems in a data center. • Technical ability to perform availability assessments of electrical distribution topologies and evaluate power/load demands.
• Experience with datacenter facilities such as HVAC, PDU, and UPS. • Familiarity with information technology equipment architectures. • Experience with power monitoring systems and software.
• Experience with Excel, Word, Outlook.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with Vertiv/Liebert products and software is a plus.
• Experience with Microsoft Visio and Microsoft Server a plus.