Senior Data Center Engineer

Job Description

This is a day shift position from 6:30am-7:00PM , including weekends,  with the core responsibilities including the planning, installation, relocation and de-installation of Network, Open Systems hardware, Storage Arrays and cabling infrastructure within the Visa Data Centers.

Essential Functions

• Work with the hardware engineering and project management teams to gather requirements, plan and perform hardware installs, reconfigurations and de-installations of Mainframe hardware, Open Systems hardware, Storage Arrays and other peripherals in critical 7/24 Data Center environments.

• Manage vendors providing hardware support of Mainframe, Open Systems and SAN storage hardware.

• Provide 7/24-hour support for problem diagnosis of Mainframe, Open Systems and SAN Storage Hardware and Cabling Infrastructure.

• Manage vendors providing Cabling installation services.

• Utilize problem and change management ticketing systems to ensure all changes and problems are accurately tracked and resolved.

• Utilize configuration documentation to diagnose and resolve problems.

• Participate in planning meetings to communicate hardware and cabling infrastructure requirements and ensure implementations in the Data Center meet project requirements and timeline objectives.

• Provide updates of the physical layout of equipment and cabling infrastructure utilizing Data Center Information management tools (DCIM).

• Perform moves, adds and changes of hardware and cabling infrastructure in the Data Center environments.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
-2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications
-3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years
of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
-5+ years of experience working Open systems hardware, SAN Storage Arrays and
associated cabling infrastructure systems, network and Mainframe.
-Solid understanding of Open systems and SAN storage hardware topologies and
architecture.
-Experience working in large scale, critical 24/7 Data Center Environments.
-Experience with problem determination of cabling infrastructure and hardware
repair across multiple hardware platforms.