Data Centre Technical Operations Engineer

JR United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the UK seeks a Data Centre Technical Operations Engineer to join their Web Services Team in London. This role involves operating and maintaining critical data centre equipment, ensuring high uptime and safety standards. The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of experience in data centres and a strong background in electrical and mechanical operations.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years experience in data centres.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain mechanical and electrical equipment.
• Perform root cause analysis of equipment failures.
• Ensure all safety procedures are adhered to while performing work.

Skills

Electrical maintenance

Mechanical equipment operation

Troubleshooting

Root cause analysis

Job description

Role Title: Data Centre Technical Operations Engineer

Location: London, Onsite

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across the client's business to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. You’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Our client is seeking a collaborative electrical maintenance professional for their Web Services Team.

This engineering operations technician position serves as the on-site maintenance technician and operator for a 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 the client within its data centres. Data centre equipment that supports mission-critical servers must maintain better than 99.999% uptime. EOTs are also tasked with driving innovation while reducing operational costs in the facilities.

Key job responsibilities

1. Operate and maintain mechanical and electrical equipment
2. Troubleshoot facility and rack-level events within internal SLAs
3. Perform limited maintenance tasks including filter changes, HVAC preventive maintenance, rack power installs, rack PDU, and rack ATS replacements
4. Provide support to Data Centre Operations technicians
5. Perform root cause analysis of equipment failures
6. Ensure all safety procedures are adhered to while performing work
7. Take daily operational readings of all mechanical and electrical equipment through routine rounds/log taking (temperatures, voltages, currents, etc.)
8. Utilise internal CMMS to manage building workflows and spare part inventory
9. Supervise contractors who perform servicing or preventive maintenance
10. Respond to off-hour emergency calls per on-call rotation for any of the region’s sites
11. Fully comply with all physical security procedures and policies

Minimum 3 years experience in data centres.