Data Center Engineer (in Santa Clara, CA)

Key Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing new data center infrastructure, optimizing for performance and scalability, ensuring security, and planning for future growth
• Build, manage and maintain company’s infrastructure in global data centers
• Perform equipment installs – compute, network, storage, racks, PDUs, cabling, etc
• Closely monitor infrastructure to prevent failures and service degradation
• Maintain asset inventory in DCIM – for both production and lab environments
• Perform all shipping and receiving duties including RMA activities
• Maintain impeccable documentation around our datacenter configuration
• Set standards of excellence for all datacenter operations
• Performing regular maintenance tasks, such as cleaning, inspecting, and replacing components, to prevent problems and ensure the longevity of the equipment
• Update and work on tickets and tasks assigned in a timely manner
• Follow change management process and participate in off hours change windows
• Provide 24x7 support as needed
• Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, and root cause analysis for platform reliability issues
• Comfortable using command line interfaces
• Familiarity with Linux and other cli operating systems
• Familiar with server, storage, internet technologies

Requirements

• Strong technical knowledge of networking, servers, storage, and virtualization, experience with data center design and implementation, ability to analyze and optimize performance, and project management skills
• Minimum of 4 years hands on experience with Data Centre technologies – compute, network, storage, cabling, racks, PDUs, etc
• Great knowledge and experience with planning cooling, power and space resources
• Linux/Unix system administration, networking and SAN connectivity skills strongly desired
• Experience working with vendors (quote-purchase process, RMA processes, support interactions)
• Coding skills to automate repetitive tasks and gather reporting information
• Experience supporting 24x7 customer facing production environment
• Ability to troubleshoot and solve hardware problems independently
• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience