Second Shift Data Center Operations Technician IV

Webhosting; Buffalo, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 68,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Rackspace Technology in Buffalo, NY is hiring a Second Shift Data Center Operations Technician IV to own IT infrastructure and ensure 99.999% uptime for customer servers. The role requires on-site work, monitoring, hardware upgrades, and OS installations across Windows, Linux, and VMware environments.

Key tasks include triaging tickets, performing storage configurations, network cabling, and mounting devices in cabinets, with compensation tied to geographic market and experience.

Qualifications

• Experience in data center operations and hardware troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Server, Ubuntu Linux or VMware ESX.
• Ability to perform OS installs via PXE and basic network configuration.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and triage tickets to provide customer-focused data center support.
• Perform hardware updates, RAID configuration changes, and OS installs.
• Install and maintain storage and network hardware including switches and firewalls.
• Ensure cabling, racking, and device mounting within cabinets is completed.

Skills

Data center operations

Hardware troubleshooting

Network cabling

OS and server administration

Tools

PXE

VMware ESX

Windows Server

Red Hat / Ubuntu

Job description

Second Shift Data Center Operations Technician IV

Rackspace ·United States, Buffalo - NY

On-site Full-time Not specified Infrastructure

Job Description

Job Summary:The Data Center Operations Technician owns the responsibility of all IT Infrastructure, including customer configurations, within the data center environment ensuring all customer server environments are secure, operational and maintain 99.999% uptime.

Work Location/Shift:

• Shift: 2nd

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for monitoring and prioritizing an internal ticketing system to provide customer support.
• Provide basic operating system storage troubleshooting, along with storage upgrades, hardware troubleshooting and Raid configuration changes.
• Provide hardware support and upgrades for servers running Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Server, Ubuntu Linux or VMWare ESX Server.
• Simple operating systems administration can include, setting up OS network IP’s, fresh OS installs (using PXE), Firmware updates and basic OS troubleshooting.
• Installation or removal of fiber or copper cabling. Along with Layer 1 network skills, that will include testing, as well as connectivity issues with previously deployed copper or fiber cabling.
• Installation of network device hardware including switches, firewalls, load-balancers and security appliances.
• Installation of hardware on storage devices including DAS and NAS arrays
• Complete customer maintenances requests that include hardware modification, operating system installation, mounting of the devices within cabinets and completion of all cabling needs to be required.

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The compensation range for this position ranges from $67,568.00/year in our lowest geographic market up to $90,125.00/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Learn more about benefits at Rackspace.

About Rackspace Technology

We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies – across applications, data and security – to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.

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