Data Center Critical Facilities Engineer

Title: Sr. Analyst - Data Center Critical Facilities Engineer
Location: Liberty, NC 27298 Onsite
Duration: 7 months Contract

Description:
Must have APC DCE & ITA admin programing skills or Must have Vertiv SiteScan admin programing skills :
We require more than just skill to monitor for these software programs. We need administration skills. Someone that can configure, update software, add components, and alert configuring/ monitoring. The skill is not just monitoring but Admin skills to build, program, and configure new items to be monitored such as UPSs, Power Strips, cameras and etc. Manage license counts for DCE & ITA, program thresh holds set points for alerting and alarming to name a few requirements....etc.

• Experienced managing APC DCE/ITA or Vertiv Sitescan environments and servers (Must Have )
• Understanding of HVAC, UPS, ATS and Generators functions and alarming (Must Have )
• Please source for candidates who have background of Electrical engineering, strong exposure to Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering along with HVAC - Heating Venting Air Conditioning.
• Basically who can support the backend.
• If they have any Data-center experience (Environmental) will be a huge plus but not a deal breaker.
• Over time would be 4-10hrs/week depending on the work requirement.
• Should have at least 3-5 years of relevant experience.
• The resource will also be required to travel around to other sites. May be some travel to Mexico and data centers inside the USA, international travel is likely not to happen this year.

Interview process -

60 minutes of STAR/video interview
Technical Interview (in depth) 45 minutes


JOB DESCRIPTION


What you’ll be doing
This Data Center Critical Facilities Engineer is needed to support Data Center Managers to ensure all facility duties are run to meet TMNA data center standards.
A person who is familiar with data center design, IT floor space management, cabinet power and U-space management, electrical, environmental, and mechanical equipment supporting the data center (e.g. HVAC - Heating Venting Air Conditioning, UPS, and Generators).
This person will also need to build, manage, and maintain MEP monitoring tools utilizing Vertiv Sitescan and/or APC Data Center Expert/IT Advisor for performance, availability, reliability and security of IT resources. Support of data center staff to provide continuous business operations.
Ensure business requirements are met by providing operational support of multiple complex IT production platforms to support the 99.99% data center uptime objective

Schedule:
40 Hours a week with some infrequent overtime
Some evenings or weekends support required
Occasional travel required to support data center critical facilities activities


Requirements:
Qualifications/ What you bring (Must Haves) – Highlight Top 3-5 skills
Experienced managing APC DCE/ITA and Vertiv Sitescan environments and servers
Understanding of HVAC, UPS, ATS and Generators functions and alarming
Background in incident ticketing and change management applications
Good verbal and written communication skills utilizing Microsoft tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams)
Continuously investigating new technologies to maintain industry leading edge
Ability to inventory items in the data center and document them
Pleasant professional demeanor, positive attitude, and ability to follow directions well using pillars of respect for others and continuous improvement
Ability to work in a collaborative environment supporting immediate and cross-functional teams
Able to utilize data center guidelines and best practices and identify deficiencies
Approach everything with a TMNA IT first mindset
Atleast 3 or more years of experience with admin capabilities.

Added bonus if you have (Preferred):
Overseeing vendor implementation of electrical, environmental and mechanical equipment improvements
Ensure that maintenance activities are performed (by vendors) within manufacturer recommended schedules or within industry standard time intervals
Researching, recommending, planning, and overseeing vendor implementation of electrical, environmental, and mechanical equipment improvements.
Ensure Request for Change procedures for data center facilities service, repairs and improvements are in place before any work is performed. This oversight validates change activity is planned reviewed, scheduled and scripted (critical operating equipment only) before any work is performed.
Enforcing physical access, safety and security policies for restricted data center areas
Proven working knowledge of Servers, Storage and Networking in a data center environment (e.g. Nutanix, HP, Client, Cisco Switches) is a huge plus
Bi-lingual (English/Spanish)