A leading technology company is seeking a skilled hardware technician in San Angelo, Texas, to oversee installations and support in a data center environment. The ideal candidate will have 3 years of hardware experience and work in a 24/7 support structure. Responsibilities include planning site installations, managing vendor activities, and troubleshooting issues efficiently. This role offers a great career opportunity with benefits such as medical coverage, paid vacation, and paid training.
Qualifications
3 years of hardware experience in a data center environment.
Experience working in a 24X7 support environment.
Responsibilities
Perform physical site planning for computer equipment installations.
Coordinate power requirements with facilities.
Install and maintain data center hardware.
Support hardware break/fix activities and troubleshooting.
Mentor and train hardware services associates.
Skills
Hardware experience
Troubleshooting
Vendor management
Data center operations
24/7 support
Job description
Job Description
7x24x365 Support
Perform physical site planning for all computer equipment to be installed or de-installed at the ITO Data Center.
Coordinate floor space and electrical power requirements between the SBU and facilities department
Review, finalize, and signoff on hardware components to be acquired to fulfill IMACs
Receive and inventory equipment to be installed in the data center and arrange for shipping of equipment out of the data center
Perform mainframe and midrange computer processor, tape, network, and disk hardware installs/de-installs, moves, adds, changes (IMACS)
Provide connectivity to installed mainframe and midrange computer processor, tape, network, and disk hardware as required
Maintain CMDB and perform audits
Coordinate vendor hardware and circuit installations
Support/perform hardware break/fix activities
Assist vendors with hardware problem determination
Vendor management escalation and escort when applicable
Provide off hours facility engineering support
Provide internal and external audit support
Attend internal and client meetings to provide support for hardware related inquiries
Support all physical transitions including organic and new business
Maybe be asked to assist in loading of images or configurations on certain equipment during the install process
Primary duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Installing hardware in the data center
Maintaining hardware related output queues (incident, service request, change)
Basic and in depth troubleshooting (incident management) of hardware related problems
Assist in maintaining CMDB and hardware inventory for site services
Provide shipping and receiving support and assist other team members
Vendor management at the site – escalations, escort, assistance in troubleshooting
Escalation of incidents and problems to management
Assists in the overall hardware planning at the site level
Mentors and trains other hardware services associates
Assist in the development/maintaining of best practices and procedures for the team
Help develop detailed plan for hardware installation
Assist engineering support with configuration of hardware
Assists in procurement, pricing, ordering of hardware related supplies
Insure proper 24/7 coverage is maintained
Develops data center best practices processes and procedures
Qualifications
3 years of hardware experience in a data center environment