Data center engineer consultant - contractor Job at Next Step Systems, Aurora, IL

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  • Next Step Systems
  • Aurora, IL

Job Description

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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  • Position Id: 8504960

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