Global Network Deployment Engineer & Automation Lead

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an experienced Data Center Operations engineer to build out and manage our global infrastructure. You will collaborate with Network Engineering, SRE and planning teams to deploy data center hardware, automate repetitive tasks with Python, and supervise remote contractors during installations.

You will be responsible for IPMI/BMC remote administration, server provisioning, firmware updates, and ensuring reliability across thousands of datacenter

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience in Data Center Operations, Site Reliability Engineering, Linux Systems Administration, Network Engineering, and/or DevOps experience.
• Experience with optical transport technologies such as CWDM/DWDM.
• Experience with remote "lights-out" and out-of-band access to data center resources (IPMI/BMC).
• Ability to write scripts for internal tools and automation workflows.

Responsibilities

• Provisioning, monitoring and maintaining hardware, software, and network in new the company data centers.
• Perform server administration tasks remotely using IPMI/BMC tools, including server provisioning, monitoring, troubleshooting and firmware updates.
• Perform network configuration tasks to network devices in greenfield deployment and brownfield migration activities.
• Manage remote contractors to complete datacenter installations and upgrades (rack and stack).
• Build automation to eliminate repetitive work using Python scripts, and Changie.
• Planning and implementing network and server installations, including facility power, cooling, security, rack layout and cable management.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to remote contractors and junior team members.
• Create and maintain documentation, SOPs, MOPs and runbooks.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure Engineering, Network Engineering and SRE on day-to-day operations and project planning.
• Coordinate installation of cross-connects globally in support of physical network expansion.
• Define and implement consistent processes and standardization across regions.

Skills

Data Center Operations

Linux Administration

Network Engineering

DevOps

Python

IPMI/BMC

Automation

BGP/Anycast

SRE

SQL/Excel

Education

Bachelor’s degree (plus) in CS/Engineering

Tools

Saltstack

Chef

Puppet

Ansible

DCIM tools

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an experienced Data Center Operations engineer to build out and manage our global infrastructure. You will collaborate with Network Engineering, SRE and planning teams to deploy data center hardware, automate repetitive tasks with Python, and supervise remote contractors during installations.

You will be responsible for IPMI/BMC remote administration, server provisioning, firmware updates, and ensuring reliability across thousands of datacenter