Data Center Engineer Consultant, Aurora, IL

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 or full-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 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm CT
– Monday – Thursday 8:00 am – 3:00 pm CT (occasionally)
– Friday 4:00 pm – 9:00 pm CT (occasionally)
– Saturday 8:00 am – 12:00 pm (occasionally)

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.

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