Data Center Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

On-Site Data Center Support: Perform physical installations, structured cabling, and hardware deployments per Data Center Architect's direction.

Delivery & Installation Management: Accept shipments, oversee rack/stack of Dell/Cisco hardware, and ensure proper power and network connections.

3rd Party Coordination: Arrange access for vendors, service providers, and carriers while ensuring compliance with security protocols.

Networking & Infrastructure: Assist with Cisco UCS, Nexus, ACI, Catalyst switches, and patching fiber/copper connections.

Hosting Partner & Carrier Liaison: Work with colocation providers and ISPs to troubleshoot connectivity and network provisioning.

Physical Layer Duties: Install and manage structured cabling (fiber/copper), power distribution, labeling, and equipment mounting.

Monitoring & Troubleshooting: Utilize SolarWinds, SNMP, and CLI tools to diagnose network/server issues.

Security & Compliance: Maintain compliance with ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and corporate security policies.

Flexibility & Availability: Support night and weekend deployments, maintenance windows, and emergency troubleshooting as needed.

Core Competencies:

Dell Technologies: PowerEdge Servers, VxRail, PowerStore, EMC Storage (Unity, VMAX, Isilon)

Cisco Networking: Nexus, UCS, ACI, Catalyst, ASR, ISR, Firewalls

Physical Layer Duties: Rack/stack, structured cabling, patching, labeling, power distribution

Data Center Operations: Accepting deliveries, coordinating 3rd parties, managing access

Hosting & Carrier Coordination: Working with hosting partners and telecom carriers

Virtualization & Cloud: VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, Azure, AWS

Monitoring & Troubleshooting: SolarWinds, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, SNMP

Security & Compliance: Firewall policies, VLAN segmentation, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001

Availability: Flexible for night and weekend work as required

GitHub, Ansible "AWX", Jenkins, and Terraform.

Certifications (Preferred):

Dell EMC Certified Specialist - PowerEdge/Storage

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) / CCNP Data Center

BICSI Certification (Preferred for cabling expertise) CompTIA Server+ / Network+

Oscar Associates Limited (US) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.