Data Center Facilities Technician: On-Site Ops Specialist

Logicalis Group; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Logicalis Group is seeking a Facilities Technician to ensure smooth operation of on-site Data Centre facilities, server rooms, boardrooms, and IS workspaces. You’ll work with the Facilities Manager to support HVAC, power redundancy, monitoring, fire detection, and access control, while coordinating with vendors for ongoing services and new deployments.

You will frequently travel to regional sites across Gauteng, Free State & Northwest, handling planning, installation, and commissioning of new

Qualifications

• Identify and action or escalate risks.
• Monitor and ensure the functioning of data centre and server room facilities.
• Ensure the proper planning, installation, and commissioning of new data centre services as needed.
• Liaise with vendors for the management of current services, and the planning and installation of new services.
• Decommissioning and storage or disposal of facilities that is no longer required by the client.
• Responsibilities are in the data centre infrastructure, and facilities function as a generalist or in a combination of disciplines.
• Extensive local travel to the regional sites across Gauteng, Free State & Northwest.
• Plans, direct and controls data centre and server room facilities on behalf of client.
• Experience in Video conferring and audio-visual infrastructure.
• Experience in fast paced ICT delivery environments with competing and changing priorities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to drive issues to resolution.
• Experience in HVAC (Cooling), power redundancy (UPS, inverter, generator), environmental monitoring, fire detection, access control.
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to build sound business relationships with stakeholders.
• Good written and spoken communications at all levels of business.
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Organised approach to work, managing own and others workload.
• Experienced at setting up meetings and keeping minutes.
• Experience in use of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Experience in a mining or industrial environment.

Responsibilities

• Identify and action or escalate risks.
• Monitor and ensure the functioning of data centre and server room facilities.
• Plan, install, and commission new data centre services as needed.
• Liaise with vendors for management of current services and installation of new services.
• Decommission facilities no longer required by the client.
• Travel to regional sites across Gauteng, Free State & Northwest to support client needs.
• Support data centre infrastructure and facilities across client sites.

Skills

HVAC cooling

Power redundancy UPS inverter gen

Environment monitoring

Fire detection

Access control

Audio-visual infrastructure

Video conferencing

Microsoft Office

Analytical thinking

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Stakeholder management

Travel readiness

Job description

Logicalis Group is seeking a Facilities Technician to ensure smooth operation of on-site Data Centre facilities, server rooms, boardrooms, and IS workspaces. You’ll work with the Facilities Manager to support HVAC, power redundancy, monitoring, fire detection, and access control, while coordinating with vendors for ongoing services and new deployments.

You will frequently travel to regional sites across Gauteng, Free State & Northwest, handling planning, installation, and commissioning of new