Job Details
Randstad Digital is seeking a Data Center Technician for an exciting opportunity in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Managing and creating MOSI tickets when directed by team lead.
- Providing technical support to building occupants and addressing their maintenance requests.
- Participating in emergency response activities and coordinating with other departments to ensure the safety of building occupants during emergencies.
- Assisting IT engineers in installing IT infrastructure, including servers, networking equipment, and storage systems.
- Assist with tracking of power utilizations and plan for future power requirements via Enivronet and other tools.
- Maintain documentation of data center, including Visio drawings, power location, power utilization, cooling utilization, etc.
- Responsible for the FLIR report to manually double check the heating and cooling sensors.
- Responsible for helping to reduce waste in the data center by working with individual teams to verify excess components that can be removed from the data center.
- Learning safety requirements and regulations for proper data center operations as indicated by the agency and NIST.
- Keep track of standard preventative maintenance schedules for all equipment. And communicate and coordinate with effected teams.
- Participating in on-call rotation and responding to emergencies outside of normal business hours. On-call is considered to be a 24-hour shift agreed upon by the team in advance.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience. Five (5) or more years of experience in Facilities related roles. Understanding of power, cooling and other environmental systems in a data center. Technical ability to perform availability assessments of electrical distribution topologies and evaluate power/load demands.
- Experience with datacenter facilities such as HVAC, PDU, and UPS. Familiarity with information technology equipment architectures. Experience with power monitoring systems and software.
- Experience with Excel, Word, Outlook.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with Vertiv/Liebert products and software is a plus.
- Experience with Microsoft Visio and Microsoft Server a plus.