Data Centre Shift Technician

Teraco – A Digital Realty Company; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 300,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

Teraco – A Digital Realty Company in Gauteng is seeking a Data Centre Technician to monitor and maintain all data centre critical infrastructure, ensuring uptime and safe operations.

You will perform planned, preventative, and predictive maintenance, troubleshoot system and network installations, and ensure compliance with SLAs/MSAs and health and safety standards. Daily walk arounds, wiring of control panels, and cross-department collaboration are expected to meet operational targets.

Responsibilities

• Monitoring and maintenance of all Data Centre critical infrastructure
• Performing planned / preventative / predictive maintenance of all infrastructure
• Fault detection of critical infrastructure
• Switching and isolation of MV and LV equipment
• Installing and commissioning of new plant
• Daily walk arounds and inspections of electrical and mechanical systems and equipment
• Wiring of electrical control panels
• Offering technical support at Data Centre by performing system/network installation, configuration, and troubleshooting in order to ensure optimum operations.
• Carrying out preventative maintenance of data center equipment and devices.
• Monitoring system processes to ensure smooth operations.
• Evaluating heating and cooling systems to ensure they are operational and can meet equipment temperature conditions.
• Comply to working methods ensuring that all client SLA and MSA’s are achieved
• Monitor customer network servers and storage systems to ensure uptime and efficient resolution of issues
• Compliance
• Maintain compliance in accordance to all relative policies and procedures
• Meet agreed inter-departmental OLA (Operational Level Agreement)
• Health & Safety monitoring and corrective action to meet statutory compliance and company’s objective of zero tolerance to unsafe work practices

Job description

• Monitoring and maintenance of all Data Centre critical infrastructure
• Performing planned / preventative / predictive maintenance of all infrastructure
• Fault detection of critical infrastructure
• Switching and isolation of MV and LV equipment
• Installing and commissioning of new plant
• Daily walk arounds and inspections of electrical and mechanical systems and equipment
• Wiring of electrical control panels
• Offering technical support at Data Centre by performing system/network installation, configuration, and troubleshooting in order to ensure optimum operations.
• Carrying out preventative maintenance of data center equipment and devices.
• Monitoring system processes to ensure smooth operations.
• Evaluating heating and cooling systems to ensure they are operational and can meet equipment temperature conditions.
• Comply to working methods ensuring that all client SLA and MSA’s are achieved
• Monitor customer network servers and storage systems to ensure uptime and efficient resolution of issues
• Compliance
• Maintain compliance in accordance to all relative policies and procedures
• Meet agreed inter-departmental OLA (Operational Level Agreement)
• Health & Safety monitoring and corrective action to meet statutory compliance and company’s objective of zero tolerance to unsafe work practices