Data Center Facilities Engineer

Role : Data Centre Facilities Engineer

Location: Liberty, NC

Duration: 12 Months

Job Description:

Description:

• Must have APC DCE & ITA admin programming skills or must have Vertiv SiteScan admin programming skills:
• We require more than just skill to monitor for these software programmes. We need administration skills. Someone that can configure, update software, add components, and alert configuring/monitoring. The skill is not just monitoring but also admin skills to build, program, and configure new items to be monitored, such as UPSs, power strips, cameras, etc.
• Manage licence counts for DCE & ITA, programme threshold holds set points for alerting and alarming, to name a few requirements…etc.
• Experienced managing APC DCE/ITA or environments and servers (Must Have)
• Understanding of HVAC, UPS, ATS and generator functions and alarming (Must Have)
• Strong exposure to mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering along with HVAC – heating, venting, and air conditioning.
• Basically, who can support the backend.
• If they have any data centre experience (environmental), it will be a huge plus but not a deal breaker.

What you’ll be doing

• This Data Center Critical Facilities Engineer is needed to support Data Center Managers to ensure all facility duties are run to meet data centre standards.
• A person who is familiar with data center design, IT floor space management, cabinet power and U-space management, electrical, environmental, and mechanical equipment supporting the data center (e.g., HVAC – Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, UPS, and Generators).
• This person will also need to build, manage, and maintain MEP monitoring tools utilising Vertiv Sitescan and/or APC Data Center Expert/IT Advisor for performance, availability, reliability, and security of IT resources. Support of data center staff to provide continuous business operations.
• Ensure business requirements are met by providing operational support of multiple complex IT production platforms to support the 99.99% data center uptime objective

Schedule:

• 40 Hours a week with some infrequent overtime
• Some evenings or weekends support required
• Occasional travel required to support data center critical facilities activities

Requirements:

• Qualifications/What you bring (Must Haves) – Highlight Top 3-5 skills
• Experienced managing APC DCE/ITA and Vertiv Sitescan environments and servers
• Understanding of HVAC, UPS, ATS and Generators functions and alarming
• Background in incident ticketing and change management applications
• Good verbal and written communication skills utilizing Microsoft tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams)
• Continuously investigating new technologies to maintain industry leading edge
• Ability to inventory items in the data center and document them
• Pleasant professional demeanor, positive attitude, and ability to follow directions well using 2 pillars of respect for others and continuous improvement
• Ability to work in a collaborative environment supporting immediate and cross-functional teams
• Able to utilize data center guidelines and best practices and identify deficiencies
• Approach everything with IT first mindset
• Atleast 3 or more years of experience with admin capabilities.