Data Center Technician 3

Job summary

The Data Center Technician III is responsible for managing trouble tickets, performing hardware installations, and ensuring the physical security and cleanliness of the data center facility. They also act as a point of escalation for local technicians and maintain effective relationships with customers through professional communication.

Job details

DataBank Holdings Ltd. is a leading provider of enterprise-class data center, cloud, and interconnection services, offering customers 100% uptime availability of data, applications, and infrastructure. DataBank’s managed data center services are anchored in world-class facilities. Our customized technology solutions are designed to help customers effectively manage risk, improve technology performance, and allow focus on core business objectives. DataBank is headquartered in the historic former Federal Reserve Bank Building, in downtown Dallas, TX. DataBank is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our work culture at DataBank does not discriminate based on actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veterans' status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. The Data Center Technician III provides an overall focus on positive proactive end-user customer service through phone, email, face-to-face, and our internal case management systems. Maintains accurate chain-of-custody logs of incoming and outgoing customer packages and ensures facility cleanliness. As a member of the Operations Team, the Data Center Technician III is expected to handle trouble tickets and remote hands requests from inception through resolution. Data Center Technician III are tasked with the installation of a variety of circuits, including Ethernet, Sonet and Dark Fiber. Data Center Technicians monitor all business-critical systems (BMS, Security) escalating issues accordingly and drive both internal and customer compliance to the company’s security standards. Responsibilities * Create and maintain effective customer relationships, with customer satisfaction as the ultimate goal. Answering customer phone calls and emails within a timely and professional manner. * Responsible for ensuring installs, capacity checks, testing and close out of Customer orders are completed in a timely manner while meeting predefined installation intervals * Responsible for ensuring all Tickets/Cases are resolved timely and in a professional manner. * Responsible for Cost efficiency, Outage management, Change management and Compliance within Data Center * Supervision of all Vendor Maintenance Activities within Data Center * Perform physical security walkthroughs, administration of security sign-in procedures for all colocation customers, visitors, third parties and escorting them to designated work location while adhering and enforcing established company security standards. * Accurately capture time invested on tasks and tickets/cases (customer installs, site expansions, outages, remote hands, etc) including capturing Cap Labor on the timesheet and ensuring timesheets are completed and submitted timely. * Responsible for monthly recording and furnishing Customer Metered Power, in a timely manner to meet invoicing. * Participate in the Market’s on-call rotation, based on Market needs. * Monitor and Resolve technical issues and alarms with DataBank Infrastructure, ensuring issue resolution. * Comfortable with following ERP and Escalating to on-call staff or engineering support staff as necessary in a fast-paced data center environment. * Maintain and Ensure facility cleanliness at all times and maintaining site “Tour Readiness” at all times * Maintain working knowledge of all products, processes and systems, with an emphasis on PR/CSP submittal processes to ensure payment to Vendors occurs timely. * First point of escalation for local Data Center Technicians - Assisting with training, answering questions related to process/procedures. * Enforcement of and Adherence to DataBank Cabling Standards * Support customer and/or auditor tours as needed. * Responsible for Power Monitoring and Reporting * Maintain accurate inventory of work tools, test equipment, and devices * Other duties as assigned Qualifications * High school diploma required. * Previous NOC/SOC/IOC experience and/or data center experience preferred. * College degree in related discipline preferred. * 3-5 years of experience or demonstrated ability to meet these responsibilities/qualifications. * Responsibility and dependability are a must. * Candidates must have reliable transportation. * Trustworthy and ability to work honestly with little or no supervision, if necessary. * Strong written and verbal communication skills. * Ability to learn quickly and apply new knowledge and skills immediately. * Ability to assess situations and escalate properly, following internal procedures. * Knowledge of Windows operating systems both pc and server side. * Familiarity with basic hardware troubleshooting tasks, replacing hard drives, memory and motherboards a plus. * Must be able to lift a minimum of 50 lbs. * Familiarity with DS1, DS3, Ethernet and fiber circuits are a plus. * Must have ability to install and neatly manage copper, coaxial, CAT 5/6, fiber and other network cable/connector types. * Basic knowledge of switches, firewalls and managed storage are a plus. Benefits * Health, Dental, Vision packages * Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance * Life Insurance * 401k with company match * Paid Time Off and Holidays

What you’ll do

The Data Center Technician III is responsible for managing trouble tickets, performing hardware installations, and ensuring the physical security and cleanliness of the data center facility. They also act as a point of escalation for local technicians and maintain effective relationships with customers through professional communication.

Requirements

Candidates must have a high school diploma, with a college degree and 3-5 years of relevant data center or NOC/SOC experience preferred. Strong technical skills in hardware troubleshooting, cabling, and network infrastructure are required, along with the ability to lift 50 lbs.

Benefits

• Health insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Short-term disability insurance • Long-term disability insurance • Life insurance • 401k with company match • Paid time off • Holidays

Listed skills

• Customer service · Preferred
• Inventory management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Data center operations
• Trouble ticket management
• Hardware troubleshooting
• Cabling standards
• Fiber optics
• Ethernet
• Customer service
• Security monitoring
• Vendor management
• Windows operating systems
• Inventory management
• Power monitoring
• Technical escalation
• Physical security
• Network cabling
• Capacity planning
• Hardware Troubleshooting
• Technical Issues
• Dark Fiber
• Professionalism
• Business Objectives
• Lifting Ability
• Time Off Management
• Technology Solutions
• Quick Learning
• Chain Of Custody
• Auditing
• Synchronous Optical Networking
• Building Management System
• Category 5 Cabling
• Change Management
• Cleanliness
• Customer Service
• Digital Signal 1
• Engineering Support
• Hard Disk Drives
• Federal Reserve System
• Firewall
• Invoicing
• Operations
• Outage Management Systems
• Physical Security
• Server-Side
• Verbal Communication Skills
• Network Switches
• Test Equipment
• Trustworthiness
• Colocation
• Honesty

Job areas

• Technology
• Customer Service & Support
• Engineering
• Security & Safety
• Data & Analytics
• Data Center Technician
• Data Center Technician / Engineer
• Database Designers and Administrators
• Computer Occupations, All Other