Data Center Operations Engineer

PLEASE NOTE:

This is a Data Center Operations Engineer role
- NOT DATA ENGINEER

Hybrid Roles in Rancho Cordova, CA

Duration:12+ months with possibility of longer term extensions

Pay rate: $52/hr on W2

If interested, please email me your resume at grace.

* Must be located/authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship or transfer now or in the future. No C2C inquiries, please

We are seeking a highly skilled Data Center Operations Engineer for maintaining, troubleshooting, and optimizing the physical and logical infrastructure in our co-located data centers and campus locations, ensuring maximum availability, performance, and safety. This is a mission-critical, 247 role requiring both hands-on technical ability and strong coordination skills with vendors and IT teams.

Perform preventative, corrective, and predictive maintenance on data center systems including UPS, generators, PDUs, cooling/HVAC, CRAC/CRAH units, chillers, and backup systems. Monitor performance and health of mechanical and electrical systems via various monitoring tools. Follows procedures to immediately communicate, report, and elevate data center technical or safety related incidents to management.

Assist or lead hardware installations (racks, servers, network equipment, cabling) and commissioning of new systems. Directly perform decommissions, simple changes (e.g., memory upgrades, cabling, Firmware/OS rebuilds) and refresh of infrastructure cabling, network, storage, and server equipment, following standard procedures. Validate and test new infrastructure components prior to production integration, ensuring grounding, staging, labeling, and cabling to align with all safety protocols, deployment standards, and planned designs and specifications.

Coordinate third party vendors, contractors, and service providers for maintenance, repairs, and deployment of new systems. Ensure vendor work complies with safety, quality, and standard operating procedures.

Identify and propose improvements (automation, monitoring enhancements, energy efficiency, redundancy) to increase reliability and reduce operational costs. Participate in audits, compliance reviews, and safety inspections. Monitor, analyze, and report metrics to senior leadership.

Work closely with IT, network, security, and application teams to support their infrastructure dependencies. Participate in on call rotation and respond to off hours emergencies. Track budget and capital/operational expenditures.

Create and maintain SOPs, runbooks, configuration records, architecture diagrams, asset inventories, and change logs. Generate periodic reports on metrics such as uptime, capacity, and maintenance.

Perform risk assessments, root cause analysis, and corrective actions for failures or incidents. Plan and execute change activities ensuring minimal disruption. Maintain clear escalation paths and communication during incidents.

Normal color vision for electrical work, defined via standard medical terms and applicable criteria.

This role has a travel requirement of up to 20%, which means you may be required to travel, from time to time, as part of this role.

• 5+ years of experience in data center and/or critical facility operations
• Strong knowledge of power systems, cooling systems, and electrical distribution
• Familiarity with DCIM/BMS systems
• Hands‑on experience with hardware/server/networking installation & troubleshooting
• Strong problem-solving and crisis management skills
• Vendor and project coordination experience
• Excellent documentation and communication skills
• Ability to work in shifts / on‑call rotation
• Desirable certifications: CDCP, Uptime Institute, or equivalent