Datacenter Technician

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.