Lead Data Center Support Services Technician
On-siteRed Oak, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Lead complex data center hardware support services to ensure resilience, reliability, and availability at scale. Design, govern, and sign off on advanced change activities and site augmentations while driving standardization of SOPs/MOPs across regions. Serve as the highest operational escalation point for incidents, leading cross-functional triage, root-cause analysis, and long-term corrective actions. Partner with engineering, capacity, networking, and security teams to anticipate risks, implement architectural improvements, and automate repeatable workflows. Mentor teammates, uplift best practices, and influence policy and process changes that improve performance across the group and organization. Requires a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent, 2-5 years of data center experience, and ability to lift 25-50lbs. Full-time role with no visa sponsorship available.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, OR equivalent work experience
- Prefer 2-5 years of data center experience
- Experience working in a mission-critical operations environment
- The position has a physical component requiring the ability to lift to 25Kg and may require working in cramped spaces or elevated locations
- Thorough understanding of data center design, including electrical and cooling plant & and operation thereof
- Airflow management (hot aisle, cold aisle, containment etc.)
- Rack, and stack equipment including commissioning of new racks
- Strong structured cabling skills on fiber & and copper (e.g looming, term & test)
- Fully competent in own area of expertise-anticipates problems and develops contingency plans
- Leadership experience is a must (minimum 10 plus people in a quickly changing environment)
- Able to carry out directive without supervision
- Able to resolve issues on their own and apply stop gaps for damage control
- Able to address not just technicians, but management as well
- Able to coordinate with peer level IC's and formulate solutions to a multitude of problems
- Able to guide junior technicians and instruct them on proper etiquette and protocol
- Able to lift 50lbs
- Able to climb a 9 ft. ladder
- Ability to stand for up to 12 hours
- Systems administration (Linux and/or Windows Servers - especially command line based)
- Hardware repair, diagnosis & break/fix
- Networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP)
- IT Hardware Concepts (RAID, SAN, x86 architecture, SCSI, FC, ethernet, iLO)
- Base Operating System Installs and Configuration
- Core OS Services: SSH, Telnet, RDP, FTP, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Serial communication etc
Desired Qualifications
- Recent graduates are encouraged to apply if they can demonstrate interest and knowledge in the position and a willingness to learn on the job – gap year students also considered
- 4 years for development preferred
- Systems administration (Linux and/or Windows Servers - especially command line based) (preferred)
Additional Requirements
- No visa sponsorship available for this role
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