Data Center Engineer Consultant - Part-Time Contractor
We are seeking a talented and self-motivated Data Center Engineer to join our growing IT team. We are open to someone consulting on a part-time basis. In addition, we could foresee this role being a consult-to-hire role. The Data Center Engineer should be able to travel to local data centers on a regular basis. Individuals must live in or commute daily to Aurora, IL.
Hours for this position are as follows but may fluctuate from time to time:
- Monday Thursday the candidate can expect to work around 2 hours per day, typically 3:30 pm 5:30 pm CST.
- Occasional meetings prior to 3:30 pm CST Monday Friday with flexibility on the times and hours of the meetings.
- Occasional Friday evening work as needed.
- Occasional Saturday morning work as needed.
- Hours may fluctuate from time to time.
Data Center Engineer Consultant Responsibilities:
- Be responsible for logistics coordination, installation, documentation and troubleshooting of physical equipment at colocation facilities.
- Coordinate with existing IT team to validate equipment installation and troubleshoot technical issues.
- Pre-plan data center design and execution by utilizing mock equipment.
- Leverage and extend existing data center best practices and documentation.
- Manage data center inventory, domestic and foreign equipment orders, returns and shipments.
- Project management of datacenter related projects.
- Proactively suggest enhancements to existing configurations, technologies or procedures.
- Able to travel to global data centers for occasional project work.
- Able to work flexible hours when required, including night and weekends.
- Organized, self-starter that is passionate about technology.
- Able to lift 65 pounds.
Data Center Engineer Consultant Qualifications:
- Bachelor s Degree from a 4-year university or comparable work experience.
- 1-3 years of experience of data center management.
- Familiar with Cisco IOS and knowledge of Ethernet networks (VLAN, spanning tree, MAC addressing, etc.).
- Experience with bug/ticket tracking systems like JIRA a plus.
- Comfortable working in a Linux-based environment.
- Comfortable with basic network connectivity concepts.
- Experience with physically installing fiber optic duplex and simplex cables.
- Experience utilizing tools to validate, clean and test fiber optic cables.
- Experience making and running patch cables.
- Previous financial industry experience a plus.
Benefits include medical insurance, retirement plan, PTO, etc.
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