Datacenter Technician

Company Overview:

World Wide Technology is looking for Data Center Technician. This job is part of WWT’s Strategic Resourcing services. The candidate will be supporting a WWT customer and will be employed by one of WWT’s preferred partners.

World Wide Technology (WWT) is a global technology integrator and supply chain solutions provider. Through our culture of innovation we inspire, build and deliver business results, from idea to outcome.

Based in St. Louis, WWT works closely with industry leaders such as Cisco, HPE, Dell EMC, NetApp, VMware, Intel, AWS, Microsoft, and F5, focusing on three market segments: Fortune 500 companies, service providers and the public sector. WWT employs more than 5,400 people and operates in more than 2+ million square feet of state-of-the-art warehousing, distribution and integration space strategically located throughout the world. WWT is proud to announce that it has been named on the FORTUNE "100 Best Places to Work For®" list for the eighth consecutive year and was awarded for multiple categories on Glassdoor’s 2019 Employees' Choice Awards, honoring the Best Places to Work.

Job Description

Job Title: Data Center Technician

Location: Reno, NV

Contract Duration: 6 month to start – ongoing support past 6 months

Our client is working on their existing data center and they need technical help to make sure the servers are connected correctly and that they are pulling addresses as they should.

Qualifications include:

Experience in large scale data center environments and/or infrastructure (Power, Space, Cooling, Equipment) including rack and stack.

HPC server install

Managing daily operational duties such as error checking, inventory management, goods receiving, remote hands response and escorting of visitors.

Investigating and resolving hardware issues by replacement of end-user serviceable parts such as hard-drives, motherboard trays, RAM etc.

Managing the resolution of complex hardware issues through vendor support agreements.

Investigating, managing and resolving copper and fiber cabling issues.

Performing datacenter change activity such as installing or moving servers, network switches and associated cabling.

Copper and fiber cabling installation (loose, not structured), labeling and dressing for all datacenter hardware.

BIOS, console and basic Linux OS investigation or configuration.

Script deployment and asset audits.

Updating and maintaining capacity and configuration management data.

Responding to and performing workow tool assigned tasks.

Experience with: Supermicro, Dell, HPE Servers, Infiniband Fabric and Mellanox, Arista Hardware

Solid skills in UNIX (Ubuntu or RedHat) administration and knowledge of basic commands

A technical background and a logical approach to problem solving.

Extensive experience installing and trouble-shooting enterprise-level servers, storage and networking equipment.

A good understanding of datacenter infrastructure such as structured cabling, power distribution, cooling techniques and system resiliency.

Experience installing large volumes of data cabling to a high standard of presentation.

An ability to work independently and with others.

Basic Linux and networking knowledge.

Proficiency in MS Office suite, particularly Excel.

A strong desire to achieve and maintain high standards.

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