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Senior Data Center Engineer
Location
Nevada
Posted
5 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Data Center Engineer
Salesforce
• Work in a high-paced operations environment of Salesforce, the largest SaaS platform on the planet, working on the delivery and operations of scalable and innovative solutions for our modular compute infrastructure and proactively defending and securing our customers' data • Conduct all day-to-day operations for the Data Center Installation of racks/enclosures and preparation of equipment to be installed • Update cable management system as changes are made to data center cable plant • Update asset management system as equipment is added and removed from the data center • Define tasks for each project and work with all Tech and Prod teams to meet project timelines as well as provide status to team members and management on the completion of all tasks • Provide all information to assist with Data Center capacity planning for space and power • Handle all vendor resources to complete tasks as defined in SOWs • Maintain relationship with providers to ensure day-to-day operational success • Research new Data Center infrastructure equipment advancements and recommend changes as needed • Conduct all audits as required by company policies • Coordinate with the onsite delivery and shipping of all equipment • Will be part of an on-call weekly rotation shared across the Las Vegas Engineering team
Job Requirements
- 5+ years experience with Data Centers managing hardware assets
- Project management approach with the ability to handle tasks in short timeframes
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written in English
- Extensive experience with rack and stack of server and network equipment installations
- Solid day-to-day experience working in large, fast-paced heterogeneous environments, critical production data centers and co-location environments
- Solid experience working with teams of onsite infrastructure build out engineers and vendors
- Experience with a large variety of different vendor hardware such as servers, storage, and network equipment
- Familiar with the processes of pulling, terminating and testing copper and fiber network cabling
- Experience with performing inventories of all cable, power cords and other infrastructure items
- Experience in contributing to detailed project plans for programs involving multi-functional teams and complex requirements
- Ability to multitask and manage numerous projects
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate issue resolution across departmental teams and global teams within multiple time zones
- Coordinating vendors, scheduling RMA's and on-site repairs as needed
- Experience with Asset Management systems
- Solid understanding of disaster recovery and business continuance methodology
- Strong sense of methodology, process, and metrics including familiarity with Agile and Scrum methodologies
- A related technical degree required
Benefits
- time off programs
- medical, dental, vision, mental health support
- paid parental leave
- life and disability insurance
- 401(k)
- employee stock purchasing program
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