Data Centre Engineering Operations Technician

ZipRecruiter; Hemel Hempstead; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Data Centre Engineering Operations Technician for a 6-month contract in Hemel Hempstead. This role involves operating and maintaining critical mechanical and electrical systems within an AWS data centre, ensuring optimal uptime and safety. You will troubleshoot equipment issues, perform essential maintenance tasks, and support a team of technicians. If you have a passion for engineering and a commitment to excellence, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge technology operations.

Qualifications

• Experience in operating and maintaining electrical and mechanical equipment.
• Ability to perform troubleshooting and root cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain mechanical and electrical equipment in a data centre.
• Perform maintenance tasks and ensure safety procedures are followed.

Skills

Mechanical Equipment Maintenance

Electrical Equipment Maintenance

Troubleshooting Skills

Root Cause Analysis

Safety Procedures Compliance

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Job Description

Data Centre Engineering Operations Technician

6 month contract

£200 per day

Onsite: Hemel Hempstead

Key Skills: Operate and maintain mechanical and electrical equipment

This engineering operations technician position serves as the on-site maintenance technician and operator for an AWS data centre.

The Data Centre Engineering Operations Technician (EOT) is responsible for operating and maintaining all electrical, mechanical, emergency generator, and fire/life safety equipment within the data centre. The EOT serves as a technical resource to support within its data centres. Data centre equipment that supports mission-critical servers must maintain better than 99.999% uptime. EOT’s are also tasked with driving innovation while reducing operational costs in the facilities.

Key job responsibilities

Responsibilities:

- Operate and maintain mechanical and electrical equipment

- Troubleshooting of facility and rack-level events within internal SLAs

- Perform limited maintenance tasks to include: filter changes, HVAC PMs, rack power installs, rack PDU, and rack ATS replacements

- Provide support to Data Centre Operations technicians

- Perform root cause analysis of equipment failures

- Ensure all safety procedures are adhered to while performing work

- Take daily operational readings of all mechanical and electrical equipment through routine rounds/log taking (temperatures, voltages, currents, etc.)

- Utilise internal CMMS to manage building workflows and spare part inventory

- Supervise contractors who perform servicing or preventive maintenance

- Respond to off hour emergency calls per on call rotation for any one of the region’s sites

- Fully comply with all physical security procedures and policies

If you are interested please apply or send your CV to [e-mail]