Data Center Hardware Engineer - PRI Technology
New York, NY 10022
About the Job
Contract
Orangeburg, NY/Totowa, NJ/Dayton, NJ
Job Shifts:
First shift (day), second shift (afternoon), third shift (night), along with weekend hours
Responsibilities
Orangeburg, NY/Totowa, NJ/Dayton, NJ
Job Shifts:
First shift (day), second shift (afternoon), third shift (night), along with weekend hours
Responsibilities
- Learn and understand the data center site in order to manage events that put our critical systems at risk
- Organize people, communication and knowledge to support problem follow-up and data center activity
- Perform activity impact and risk assessment along with service notification at the appropriate level of awareness
- Maintain accuracy of documentation and recorded details of physical assets and connections
- Detect, investigate, and drive operating system issues affecting production equipment availability
- Perform hardware level activity including investigation, maintenance and repair of server, network components and data cabling
- Develop familiarity with the critical systems at each data center in order to provide a high level response and escalation
- Linux/unix knowledge sufficient to identify and interrogate system hardware, review system logs, report on file systems, and manipulate files; Knowledge of Layer2 and 3 network concepts
- Ability to prioritize work including active data center service and projects in flight
- Desire to learn and take ownership of personal development
- The ability to communicate timely and concise information to various teams throughout Engineering at the appropriate level of detail
- The ability to perform physical activities including walking, lifting, and climbing a ladder
- Passion for educating others and improving our team capabilities
- Desire to lead people, projects and problem investigation
- Eagerness to remediate issues in the physical space including airflow, power alarms, equipment serviceability, and cabling
- Hands-on experience replacing server and network hardware
- Familiarity with reporting tools including Grafana and Splunk
- Awareness and some exposure to programming or scripting
- Networking experience with sound knowledge of Cisco IOS and JunOS
Source : PRI Technology