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** We will NOT accept 3rd Party (C2C) Contractors **
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Position:Data Center Facilities Engineer
JOB REF#:
Duration:12 Months (Contract)
Location:HYBRID - Plano, TX 75024
Pay Rate:$50.00 per hour (W2 Only)
**LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY**
HYBRID: Work schedule will be provided by the Manager and the resource will be required to work on at least 1-2 weekends or more under 2 months. Mon - Thu Onsite from Sept 2025.
This Data Center Facilities Engineer is needed to support Data Center Managers to ensure all facility duties are run to meet data center standards. A person who is familiar with data center design, IT floor space management, cabinet power and U-space management, electrical, environmental, and mechanical equipment supporting the data center (e.g. HVAC - Heating Venting Air Conditioning, UPS, and Generators). This person will also need to build, manage, and maintain MEP monitoring tools utilizing Vertiv Sitescan and/or APC Data Center Expert/IT Advisor for performance, availability, reliability and security of IT resources. Support of data center staff to provide continuous business operations. Ensure business requirements are met by providing operational support of multiple complex IT production platforms to support the 99.99% data center uptime objective
Ideal candidates will possess the following skills:
Must have APC DCE & ITA admin programming skills or Must have Vertiv SiteScan admin programming skills, We require more than just skill to monitor for these software programs. We need administration skills.
Experience configuring, updating software, add components, and alert configuring/ monitoring. (This is a monitoring but Admin skills to build, program, and configure new items to be monitored such as UPSs, Power Strips, cameras and etc.
Manage license counts for DCE & ITA, program thresh holds set points for alerting and alarming to name a few requirements .etc.
Experienced managing APC DCE/ITA or Vertiv Sitescan environments and servers (Must Have )
Understanding of HVAC, UPS, ATS and Generators functions and alarming (Must Have )
Candidates should have background of Electrical engineering, strong exposure to Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering along with HVAC - Heating Venting Air Conditioning.
Basically who can support the backend.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
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 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
OTHER REQUIREMENTS:
Able to TRAVEL 4-5 trips in 12 months. May be some travel to Mexico and data centers inside the USA: Quarterly travel or twice a year.
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
DESIRED SKILLS:
Data-center experience (Environmental)
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
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Calance Consultant Benefits Offerings:
- EPO/PPO Medical Plan
- HMO/PPO Dental programs
- Vision - VSP (Vision Plan Summary)
- 401K Retirement vesting program
- Paid Bi-Weekly/Direct Deposit
- Flex Spending Plan
- Voluntary Life, AD&D, STD or LTD plans
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** We will NOT accept 3rd Party (C2C) Contractors **
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Position:Data Center Facilities Engineer
JOB REF#:
Duration:12 Months (Contract)
Location:HYBRID - Plano, TX 75024
Pay Rate:$50.00 per hour (W2 Only)
**LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY**
HYBRID: Work schedule will be provided by the Manager and the resource will be required to work on at least 1-2 weekends or more under 2 months. Mon - Thu Onsite from Sept 2025.
This Data Center Facilities Engineer is needed to support Data Center Managers to ensure all facility duties are run to meet data center standards. A person who is familiar with data center design, IT floor space management, cabinet power and U-space management, electrical, environmental, and mechanical equipment supporting the data center (e.g. HVAC - Heating Venting Air Conditioning, UPS, and Generators). This person will also need to build, manage, and maintain MEP monitoring tools utilizing Vertiv Sitescan and/or APC Data Center Expert/IT Advisor for performance, availability, reliability and security of IT resources. Support of data center staff to provide continuous business operations. Ensure business requirements are met by providing operational support of multiple complex IT production platforms to support the 99.99% data center uptime objective
Ideal candidates will possess the following skills:
Must have APC DCE & ITA admin programming skills or Must have Vertiv SiteScan admin programming skills, We require more than just skill to monitor for these software programs. We need administration skills.
Experience configuring, updating software, add components, and alert configuring/ monitoring. (This is a monitoring but Admin skills to build, program, and configure new items to be monitored such as UPSs, Power Strips, cameras and etc.
Manage license counts for DCE & ITA, program thresh holds set points for alerting and alarming to name a few requirements .etc.
Experienced managing APC DCE/ITA or Vertiv Sitescan environments and servers (Must Have )
Understanding of HVAC, UPS, ATS and Generators functions and alarming (Must Have )
Candidates should have background of Electrical engineering, strong exposure to Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering along with HVAC - Heating Venting Air Conditioning.
Basically who can support the backend.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
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 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
OTHER REQUIREMENTS:
Able to TRAVEL 4-5 trips in 12 months. May be some travel to Mexico and data centers inside the USA: Quarterly travel or twice a year.
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
DESIRED SKILLS:
Data-center experience (Environmental)
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
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Calance Consultant Benefits Offerings:
- EPO/PPO Medical Plan
- HMO/PPO Dental programs
- Vision - VSP (Vision Plan Summary)
- 401K Retirement vesting program
- Paid Bi-Weekly/Direct Deposit
- Flex Spending Plan
- Voluntary Life, AD&D, STD or LTD plans
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