We have an opportunity in our Global Data Center Operations team for an intelligent and motivated Data Center Engineer who is enthusiastic about data center deployment and site reliability/management. As a member of our team you will be managing existing and new Qualcomm data centers in Las Vegas, Nevada. You will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of our data center and assume a critical role in maintaining the overall up- time, performance, and capacity. Your responsibilities will include: site management, Moves/Adds/Changes of systems within the site. Installations, configurations of server/networking/storage equipment in preparation of administrators work. You will also work with our current Las Vegas data center lead and with San Diego teams for site management/including cabling and site growth management going forward. Bring your solid experience and take on interesting and mission-critical projects as part of a fast-paced, highly collaborative team. We hold ourselves to high standards, and take pride in our work. You should be dedicated to excellence and have a strong sense of personal responsibility and be self-driven.
**This position is based on-site at our facilities in Las Vegas, Nevada.**
Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
o Rack and install a large inventory of servers, storage, networking gear, data center gear and serial consoles in our production environment
o Perform initial configuration and provision for deployment: servers, network gear and various infrastructure related equipment (Console/ILO) configurations for sys-admins
o Perform stringent site management and planning for production deployments and growth
o Troubleshoot and remedy hardware issues, and provide a detailed report to management/administrators
o Manage local vendors for procurement/installations/remediation
o Manage RMA/EOL/Disposal processes with various sources
o Maintain an up-to-date inventory list of all hardware equipment for locations
o Help with co-location capacity and growth planning as well as rack and server layouts with corporate tools
o Implement and follow best-practice methodology for maintaining a datacenter/co-location environment for power/cooling/cabling
o Track datacenter/co-location related issues and tasks via our ticketing system
o Participate in a 24x7x365 on-call support rotation
o Experience working in a structured cabling central patch environment
o 10/40/100g patching knowledge
o VFL + Basic fiber troubleshooting
o Familiar with proper fiber end-face cleaning procedures
o Commscope iMvision Data Base knowledge a plus
o Adding copper cabling patching connections, punch down/run cables
o Ability to read and understand cabling scopes of work
o Ability to manage cable integrators and audit performed work to the actual SOW
o Quality Assurance Fundamentals
o Adding fiber MPO knowledge or fiber TX/RX principals
o Trouble shoot Fiber/cooper
o Basic testing of fiber and copper for support and troubleshooting
o Available for travel as needed
