Datacentre Technician

JR United Kingdom; Corsham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Datacentre Technician for a rotating shift role. The position involves working on a 24/7 basis, providing support for server hardware, and ensuring compliance with safety processes. This role offers a great opportunity for career progression in the hyperscale cloud context.

Qualifications

• Basic knowledge of data center design and airflow management.
• Strong structured cabling skills on fibre & copper.

Responsibilities

• Participate in installation, maintenance, and support of production server hardware.
• Provide technical solutions to internal customer problems.
• Adhere to Health & Safety processes.

Skills

Data Center experience

Structured cabling skills

Networking fundamentals

Tools

Linux

Windows Servers

Job description

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This is a shift role, rotating weekly from early (7am-3pm) to late (3pm-11pm)

Oracle is a global leader in cloud technology, providing cutting-edge solutions to help businesses transform and innovate. Our Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team is dedicated to building secure, scalable, and highly performant cloud services.

This is a great opportunity for a Datacentre Technician to progress in their career in the hyperscale cloud context.

Responsibilities:

Working on 24/7 shift basis, act HW as support expert liaison to other technical teams & non-technical teams (e.g.: networking, compute, compliance, business operations)

• Understand internal customer problem and provide technical solution in timely manner
• Participate in the installation, monitoring, maintenance, support, and optimization of all production server hardware
• System board level repair and fault diagnosis to SLAs
• Planning and commissioning new rack positions
• Involvement with the design and commissioning of new whitespaces
• Structured cabling installation is a significant part of this position
• Keep up with the latest technologies and apply them appropriately
• Adherence to defined Health & Safety processes at all times
• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team without friction
• Additional on premise work at customer locations may be required

Preferred Skills:

• Required Data Center experience:
• Basic knowledge of data center design, including electrical and cooling plant & operation thereof
• Basic knowledge of airflow management (hot aisle, cold aisle, containment etc.)
• Rack, stack equipment including commissioning of new racks
• Strong structured cabling skills on fibre & copper (e.g. looming, term & test)
• Required systems & hardware expertise:
• Systems administration (Linux and/or Windows Servers)
• Hardware repair, diagnosis & break / fix
• Networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, basic troubleshooting)
• IT Hardware Concepts (RAID, SAN, x86 architecture, SCSI, FC, ethernet, iLO)
• Base Operating System Installs and configuration
• Core OS Services: SSH, Telnet, RDP, FTP, NFS, DNS, DHCP etc

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, and protected veteran status.