Data Center Technician

Location: Itasca, IL
Contract: W2 only, 12 month contract with potential for extension or conversion to full time with either the client or CEI
Pay: $55-60/hour + optional medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match

Overview

This role requires direct experience with physical data center operations, including rack-and-stack, structured copper and fiber cabling, hardware break-fix, and asset management. The successful candidate will support PNC’s data center strategy by deploying server and network technology within the data centers, ensuring operational excellence and security.

Key Responsibilities

• This person will have the skills necessary to deploy server and network technology within the data centers.
• They must understand data center power and equipment connectivity.
• Physical data center operations such as rack and stack, structured copper and fiber cabling installation, hardware break fix, and asset management.
• Successful PNC Data Center team members typically have hands-on enterprise data center experience, strong physical infrastructure skills, comfort with regulated environments, and the discipline to operate within strict change and security controls.
• This includes direct experience with physical data center operations such as rack-and-stack, structured copper and fiber cabling, hardware break-fix, and asset management, along with a solid understanding of power, cooling, and physical security controls.
• Team members are expected to operate within formal change, incident, and access management processes, collaborate closely with engineering teams, vendors, and remote hands, and use standard tooling such as ServiceNow, Jira, CMDB, and DCIM systems.

Required Skills

• Direct experience with physical data center operations (rack-and-stack, structured copper and fiber cabling, hardware break-fix, and asset management)
• Solid understanding of power, cooling, and physical security controls.
• Standard tooling such as ServiceNow, Jira, CMDB, and DCIM systems.
• Administrative experience a plus.
• Teamwork and collaboration skills.

Required Education

• No Education Requirements

Preferred Skills

• Experience working in regulated environments.
• Familiarity with formal change, incident, and access management processes.

Why Should I Apply?

This position offers the opportunity to contribute to critical banking infrastructure within a collaborative team environment. It provides a chance to support a key data center strategy with potential for extension or full-time conversion.

About CEI:
As a trusted technology partner, CEI delivers solutions that help our customers transform their business and achieve meaningful results. From strategy and custom application development through application management - our technology and digital experience services are tailored to meet each unique need of our customers. Our staffing solutions bring specialized skills to complement our customers'' workforce and project requirements.

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