Cloud Server Operations Engineer – Data Center & Automation

Centific Global Solutions, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Centific Global Solutions, Inc. is seeking a data center operations specialist in the United States to plan server racks, install OS, perform daily maintenance, and troubleshoot hardware and network issues. The role includes on-call rotation and ownership of asset data and lifecycle management.

Candidates should have a Bachelor's in CS or EE, strong Linux skills, experience with PXE, IPMI/NCSI, and automation tools like Ansible. Excellent English communication and teamwork are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer science, Electrical engineering or any other relevant fields.
• Knowledge of the interdependencies of data center functions and technologies.
• Experience with massive remote OS installation such as PXE boot.
• Familiar with automation tools, such as Ansible; can understand and run Shell or Python scripts.
• Familiar with Linux, able to locate hardware faults; strong analytical and problem solving.
• TCP/IP concepts – Subnetting, VLANs, DNS, IPv6; ability to perform general troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of out-of-band/lights-out server communication methods, such as IPMI and NCSI.
• Strong documentation skills and habits.
• Strong ability to work under pressure; strong learning ability, broad technical interest; strong sense of responsibility.
• Good communication skills in English, Mandarin is preferred, good teamwork spirit; ability to work independently.

Responsibilities

• Plan the server or rack, install server operating system, daily server maintenance & troubleshooting, network troubleshooting, repair and follow-up break-fix of the server and other hardware, solve hardware batch failures and problems.
• Maintain data on internal systems including asset management, ticketing & rack elevations, collect and check online asset data, server lifecycle management
• On-call on duty (regular day working hour & weekend working hour rotation), responsible for dealing with the problems raised by the business owner side

Skills

Linux troubleshooting

Shell scripting

Python scripting

TCP/IP

Ansible

Problem solving

Documentation

English communication

Teamwork

Independence

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer science, Electrical engineering or any other relevant fields

Tools

PXE boot

IPMI

NCSI

Job description

Centific Global Solutions, Inc. is seeking a data center operations specialist in the United States to plan server racks, install OS, perform daily maintenance, and troubleshoot hardware and network issues. The role includes on-call rotation and ownership of asset data and lifecycle management.

Candidates should have a Bachelor's in CS or EE, strong Linux skills, experience with PXE, IPMI/NCSI, and automation tools like Ansible. Excellent English communication and teamwork are essential.