What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Center Technician position at Brilliant Infotech?
Job Title : Data Center Technician
Job Location : Plano, TX 75024
Duration : 06 - 12 Months (Extendable)
Assignment Type : Onsite
Need Locals Only Due to Work Requirements
Job Description :
Required qualifications would be :
- Experienced managing APC DCE / ITA or Vertiv Sitescan environments and servers
- Understanding of HVAC, UPS, ATS and Generators functions and alarming
- Background in incident ticketing and change management applications
- Good verbal and written communication skills utilizing Microsoft tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams)
- Continuously investigating new technologies to maintain industry leading edge
- Ability to inventory items in the data center and document them
- Pleasant professional demeanor, positive attitude, and ability to follow directions well using Toyotas 2 pillars of respect for others and continuous improvement
- Ability to work in a collaborative environment supporting immediate and cross-functional teams
- Able to utilize data center guidelines and best practices and identify deficiencies
- Approach everything with a TMNA IT first mindset
- Some desired (but not required) skills :
- Overseeing vendor implementation of electrical, environmental and mechanical equipment improvements
- Ensure that maintenance activities are performed (by vendors) within manufacturer recommended schedules or within industry standard time intervals
- Researching, recommending, planning, and overseeing vendor implementation of electrical, environmental, and mechanical equipment improvements.
- Ensure Request for Change procedures for data center facilities service, repairs and improvements are in place before any work is performed. This oversight validates change activity is planned reviewed, scheduled and scripted (critical operating equipment only) before any work is performed.
- Enforcing physical access, safety and security policies for restricted data center areas
- Proven working knowledge of Servers, Storage and Networking in a data center environment (e.g. Nutanix, HP, VMWare, Cisco Switches) is a huge plus
- Schedule :
- 40 Hours a week with some infrequent overtime
- Some evenings or weekends support required
- Occasional travel required to support data center critical facilities activities
