Data Center Design & Operations Engineer

Comcast Technology Solutions; Northlake, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 68,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & Dental

401(k) Savings Plan

Generous paid time off

Life Milestones

Job summary

Comcast is seeking an Engineer 2, Data Center Engineering to support deployment and day-to-day operations in a Northlake, IL data center. You will install, decommission, migrate equipment, manage cables, handle on-call rotations, and coordinate with vendors to ensure safe, efficient operations.

The role requires 2–5+ years in data center hardware, solid networking and power knowledge, and strong documentation. On-site with potential weekend on-call; competitive pay and benefits.

Qualifications

• 2–5+ years of experience installing and supporting switches, routers, servers, and rack-mounted equipment in a data center or critical facility.
• Experience supporting high-speed data, voice, IP, and network infrastructure.
• Understanding of data center power and HVAC environments.

Responsibilities

• Manage rack, stack, power, cabling, deployment, decommissioning, and migration of equipment within the critical facility.
• Troubleshoot operational issues, support outage response activities, and engage appropriate resources to drive issues to closure.
• Coordinate change activities, maintenance work, technical project execution, resource planning, and implementation schedules.
• Maintain and troubleshoot structured cabling infrastructure and support day-to-day capacity and operational requirements.
• Develop, maintain, and execute MOPs, technical procedures, and validation steps to ensure work is completed safely and with minimal impact.
• Participate in the on-call rotation, respond to after-hours incidents and urgent operational issues, and coordinate escalation or recovery actions as needed.
• Document incident details, actions taken, and follow-up requirements to support effective handoff, root cause review, and continuous improvement.
• Interface with vendors and internal stakeholders to install, maintain, troubleshoot, and support data center infrastructure and related services.

Skills

Data center ops

Rack & cabling

Power systems

Troubleshooting

On-call support

Vendor coordination

Documentation

DCIM tools

Networking basics

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

PDUs

UPS

ATS

Job description

Comcast is seeking an Engineer 2, Data Center Engineering to support deployment and day-to-day operations in a Northlake, IL data center. You will install, decommission, migrate equipment, manage cables, handle on-call rotations, and coordinate with vendors to ensure safe, efficient operations.

The role requires 2–5+ years in data center hardware, solid networking and power knowledge, and strong documentation. On-site with potential weekend on-call; competitive pay and benefits.