DC Ops Technician III - US

Rackspace Technology•Elk Grove, CA

11d•Onsite

About The Position

The Data Center Operations Technician owns the responsibility of all IT Infrastructure, including customer configurations, within the data center environment ensuring all customer server environments are secure, operational and maintain 99.999% uptime.

Requirements

Must be a US Citizen.
High School Diploma or equivalent is required.
2-years’ experience working in a data center environment.
Able to build, repair or upgrade hardware components.
Strong understanding of storage RAID configurations and requirements.
Must be able to lift 50 lbs. overhead.

Responsibilities

Monitoring and prioritizing an internal ticketing system to provide customer support.
Provide basic operating system storage troubleshooting, along with storage upgrades, hardware troubleshooting and Raid configuration changes.
Provide hardware support and upgrades for servers running Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Server, Ubuntu Linux or VMWare ESX Server.
Simple operating systems administration can include, setting up OS network IP’s, fresh OS installs (using PXE), Firmware updates and basic OS troubleshooting.
Installation or removal of fiber or copper cabling.
Layer 1 network skills, that will include testing, as well as connectivity issues with previously deployed copper or fiber cabling.
Installation of network device hardware including switches, firewalls, load-balancers and security appliances.
Installation of hardware on storage devices including DAS and NAS arrays.
Complete customer maintenances requests that include hardware modification, operating system installation, mounting of the devices within cabinets and completion of all cabling needs to be required.