Datacenter Operations Technician ONSITE
Listed on 2026-09-21
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IT/Tech
Systems Administrator, IT Infrastructure, Disaster Recovery IT
Benefits
- 401(k)
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
The Datacenter Operations Technician provides advanced support for datacenter infrastructure, including Hyper-V and VMware virtualization, enterprise networking, and SAN storage such as OSNexus Quanta Stor. The role leads troubleshooting, lifecycle management, capacity planning, documentation, and mentoring to maintain secure, reliable, highly available services for internal and client environments.
Skills- Advanced administration and troubleshooting of Microsoft Hyper-V, failover clustering, live migration, cluster shared volumes, and Windows Server virtualization environments
- Advanced administration and troubleshooting of VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter Server, snapshots, templates, virtual networking, high availability, and distributed resource scheduling
- Strong enterprise networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, VLANs, routing, switching, link aggregation, firewalls, VPNs, DNS, DHCP, SNMP, and network performance analysis
- Hands-on experience with SAN and shared-storage technologies, including OSNexus Quanta Stor, iSCSI, Fibre Channel concepts, multipathing, RAID, snapshots, replication, storage pools, and capacity management
- Strong knowledge of Windows Server and working knowledge of Linux administration, Active Directory, group policy, Power Shell, patching, and infrastructure monitoring
- Experience with server hardware, firmware, racks, cabling, power distribution, environmental monitoring, and datacenter change-control practices
- Ability to lead complex incident response, root cause analysis, vendor escalation, maintenance activities, and infrastructure projects
- Strong documentation, client communication, prioritization, mentoring, and professional writing skills
Must be able to lift 50 pounds, install or remove equipment in standard datacenter racks, work in confined equipment areas, use ladders or step stools when required, and remain seated or standing for extended periods. Must be able to wear company-provided safety equipment and a headset as needed.
CertificationsVMware VCP, Microsoft Windows Server or Azure, OSNexus Quanta Stor or equivalent SAN/storage, Cisco CCNA or equivalent networking certification, CompTIA Network+ or Server+, and ITIL Foundation
Role and Responsibilities Datacenter Operations- Provide senior-level operational support for physical and virtual datacenter infrastructure, including compute, storage, networking, power, environmental systems, and supporting management platforms
- Monitor infrastructure health, availability, capacity, performance, security alerts, and respond in accordance with established service-level and escalation requirements
- Lead diagnosis and resolution of complex hardware, operating system, virtualization, networking and storage incidents, including coordination with manufacturers, carriers, and third-party vendors
- Plan and perform installation, configuration, maintenance, upgrades, migrations, moves, additions, changes, and decommissioning of datacenter equipment
- Execute preventive maintenance, firmware updates, operating system patching, hardware lifecycle replacements, and configuration reviews in accordance with change-management procedures
- Participate in scheduled after-hours maintenance and an on-call rotation as required to support business continuity and customer commitments
- Maintain accurate rack elevations, asset records, warranty information, cabling documentation, inventories, and equipment disposition records
- Administer and optimize Microsoft Hyper-V clusters and VMware vSphere environments including hosts, clusters, virtual machines, templates, virtual switches, storage connectivity, and management services
- Perform virtual machine provisioning, migrations, resource allocation, snapshot management, backup coordination, replication support, and recovery testing
- Troubleshoot cluster, host, guest, storage-path, and virtual-networking issues while minimizing service disruption
- Review CPU, memory, storage, and licensing utilization and provide recommendations for consolidation, expansion, refresh, and standardization
- Validate backup, restore, high-availability, and disaster-recovery capabilities in coordination with security, backup, and operations teams
- Configure and troubleshoot datacenter switching, VLANs, trunks, routing, port channels, network interface teaming, firewall connectivity, VPNs, DNS, DHCP, and out-of-band management networks
- Analyze latency, packet loss, throughput,…
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