Facilities Technician

Logicalis SA (Pty) Ltd; Harmony; On-site; ZAR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Logicalis SA (Pty) Ltd is seeking an on-site Data Centre Technician to oversee the smooth operation of customer data centres, server rooms, and IS workspaces. You will work closely with the Facilities Manager to support HVAC, power redundancy, environmental monitoring, fire detection, and access control.

The role requires extensive regional travel across Gauteng, Free State, and Northwest. Applicants should have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, experience with data centre

Qualifications

• Experience with data centre infrastructure including HVAC, power redundancy systems (UPS, inverter, generator), environmental monitoring, fire detection, access control.

Responsibilities

• Oversee on-site data centre facilities, server rooms and IS workspaces in coordination with Facilities Manager.
• Ensure proper planning, installation and commissioning of data centre services as needed.
• Travel to regional sites across Gauteng, Free State & Northwest to support client requirements.

Job description

Why choose Logicalis? It's not just IT solutions, It's IT global know-how! Logicalis is an international multi-skilled solution provider providing digital enablement services to help customers harness digital technology and innovative services to deliver powerful business outcomes. Our customers span industries and geographical regions; and our focus is to engage in the dynamics of our customers’ vertical markets; including financial services, TMT (telecommunications, media and technology), education, healthcare, retail, government, manufacturing and professional services, and apply the skills of our 4,500 employees in modernising key digital pillars; data centre and cloud services, security and network infrastructure, workspace communications and collaboration, data and information strategies, and IT operation modernisation. We are the advocates for our customers for some of the world’s leading technology companies including Cisco, HPE, IBM, CA Technologies, NetApp, Microsoft, Oracle, VMware and ServiceNow Logicalis employees are innovative, smart, entrepreneurial and customer centric, with a shared ambition of making Logicalis the worlds leading IT Solutions provider! We offer speedy decision-making, opportunities for personal development, and a supportive, inclusive environment that celebrates our diversity. Join us and become a part of something epic!

Function Description:

The role is responsible for the smooth running of the customer’s on-site Data Centre's, Server Rooms, Boardrooms and IS Workspaces. The technician will work very closely with the Facilities Manager to support environments where infrastructure includes, but is not limited to, HVAC(Cooling), power redundancy (UPS, Inverter, Generator), Environment monitoring, fire detection, access control and audio visual.

Career Type Description:

The role supports the customer though the resolution of data centre and VC incidents and outages, identification and actioning data centre risk, improvements to current data centre environments and, monitoring of data centre facilities.

Profile Description:

Identify and action or elevate risks. Monitor and ensure the functioning of data centre and sever 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.

Logicalis is an international solutions provider of digital services currently accelerating the digital transformation of its 10,000 customers around the world. Through a globally connected network of specialist hubs, sector-leading experts (in education, financial services, government, healthcare, manufacturing, professional services, retail and telecommunications) and strategic partnerships (including Cisco, Microsoft, HPE, IBM, NetApp, Oracle, ServiceNow, and VMware), Logicalis has more than 6,500 employees focused on understanding customer priorities and enhancing their experience.

As Architects of ChangeTM, Logicalis' focus is to design, support, and execute customers' digital transformation by bringing together their vision with its technological expertise and industry insights.

The company, through its deep knowledge in key IT industry drivers such as Security, Cloud, Data Management and IoT, can address customer priorities such as revenue and business growth, operational efficiency, innovation, risk and compliance, data governance and sustainability.

Logicalis Group, with annual revenues of $ 1.5 billion annually, maintains operations in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific and Africa and is part of Datatec Group, which is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE:DTC), with revenues of more than $ 4.1 Billion.