Data Center Technician

*W2 ONLY - UNABLE TO UTILIZE C2C RESOURCES*
Description
Responsible for participating in projects related to deployments, decommission, and migrations of critical facility network, server, storage, backup, and security devices. Support new product implementations, assisting with existing products and services, and the overall management of devices and relationships of syndication data centers. Provides solutions architecture of projects and works directly with vendors, suppliers, project managers, critical facilities, and cross functional team leaders. Provides support to product teams during hardware deployments and identifies probable root cause; provides trouble isolation, advanced troubleshooting, and RMA activities. Candidate will need to be located within reasonable proximity to the Potomac Data Center in the Denver Tech Center.
Specific Responsibilities:
1. Serves as team member in a specific job function and collaborates with other leads to facilitate a deployment team to effectively & efficiently deploy, decommission and migrate hardware.
2. Drive or assists in the coordination and technical project management of team workload, including change control, resolution of stakeholder issues, resources, schedules and timelines to ensure that implementation is on track for overall project success and reporting.
3. Escalation point of contact for layer one leadership, technical assistance, and hardware deployment support.
4. Develops, Maintains, and oversees MOPS for installations and maintenance of critical facilities and structured cable plant.
5. Experience placing devices in cabinets using on KW availability, physical space, cooling, port availability, structured cable plant and application device requirements.
6. Experience on how equipment shall be placed within the cabinet initiated with hot-cold orientation to effectively manage the thermal environment and maximize device specifications and capabilities.
7. Experience on full life cycle of install & decom processes of rack mountable equipment (severs, switches, storage, firewalls, load balancers, and other network devices) in headend and data center environment.
8. Creates design specifications and works directly with vendor(s) for RFP quotations for infrastructure and deployment staff
Core Responsibilities
1. Manage rack, stack, power & cabling of equipment within the critical facility.
2. Interfacing with vendors to install, maintain, troubleshoot and decom related equipment.
3. Maintain and troubleshoot cabling infrastructure and day to day capacity requirements.
4. Streamlining Methods and Procedure for day to day operational effectiveness.
5. Manage DCIM environment for accuracy (cable running lists, and records of deployed equipment.)
6. Inventory management of copper, fiber and power cord with little to no guidance.
7. Responsible for the logistics of shipping/receiving hardware to critical facility in warehouse tools.
8. Provide risk and quality assessments of deployment project plans.
9. Available 24/7 via phone
Qualifications/Experience:
Experience in deployment and installation of switches, routers and servers
Experience in High Speed Data, Voice, IP and Data Networking.
Knowledge of all aspects of power generation and power distribution including facility and cabinet based PDU's, ATS's, and UPS's.
Diverse knowledge of Power & HVAC data center dynamics.
Proven experience to effectively plan project installations and forecast infrastructure growth - including deployment accuracy, ordering supplies, maintaining inventory control, and documenting processes.
Basic knowledge of all current types of networking and server hardware.
Demonstrated experience of documenting & developing policies and procedures.
Proven project management, analytical, problem solving and organizational abilities.
Superior interpersonal skills with the ability to work with vendors, employees and management.
Effective leadership skills to resolve conflicts and retain high morale.
Good personal computer skills.
Some travel may be required
Demonstrated success in the following core competencies:
Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) & Ticketing Application Tools
Vendor management, material ordering, and project implementation.
Ability and willingness to adapt and accept change with strong decision-making skills to complete project successfully.
Strong team working skills; Develop and maintain excellent leadership skills including proactive, customer service oriented working relationships with all appropriate levels inside and outside the company.
Personal qualities to include integrity, respect for others, personal responsibility, and a passion to approach all aspects of the job with enthusiasm.
Responsibility:
-Hands-on IP router/switch/telephony customer premises equipment
-Design configure and deploy LAN and WAN network connections hardware software and communication links and services.
-Optimize the network and systems services and troubleshoot any network performance issues.
-Responsible for the service provision and monitoring of the network infrastructure to company standards.

Skills:
-Specific knowledge and 3 to 5 years experience with Cisco and Juniper routers
-Knowledge of internetworking designs and their applications and routing
-Solid knowledge of Layer 2 and Layer 3 internetworking technologies
-Experience with protocols
-Firewall experience with firewalls such as Cisco ASA Juniper SRX Checkpoint NG etc.
-Extensive experience with Cisco switches and routers
-Certifications such as CCNA CCNP CCIE
Skills
network engineering, rack and stack, vendor management, switches, ip routing, cmts, tcp/ip, dns, arp, snmp, cabling, data center, microsoft office, project management
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $50.00 - $50.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:
Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Short and long-term disability
Health Spending Account (HSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Centennial,CO.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Jul 17, 2025.
>About TEKsystems:
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.