Data Center Technician
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Vultr is an active independent cloud-infrastructure company providing global compute, GPU, bare-metal, storage, Kubernetes, and serverless AI inference services.
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West Palm Beach, United States
About Vultr
Vultr provides globally available cloud infrastructure for developers, enterprises, and AI innovators, including Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, Cloud Storage, managed Kubernetes, and serverless inference.
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About the Role
You will install and maintain servers and network equipment, including racking, stacking and cabling. You will respond to infrastructure issues, diagnose and repair hardware, work with facility staff and vendor warranty technicians, manage spare parts inventory, and support system admins in debugging network, hardware and Linux issues.
Requirements
- Experience as a data center technician or similar role
- Experience with large scale network and server deployments
- Understanding of GPU hardware and liquid cooled racks
- Ability to work independently
- Understanding of servers, network equipment and facility services
- Experience troubleshooting, building, repairing and upgrading servers
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced high-availability environment
- Problem-solving aptitude
- Ability to stand for extended periods and lift up to 50 lbs
- At least four years racking, cabling and upgrading servers and switches
Responsibilities
- Install and maintain servers and network equipment, including rack and stack and cabling
- Respond to reported server, network and infrastructure issues
- Work with facility staff to keep power, cooling and other services working and escalate outages
- Work assigned tickets and diagnose and repair hardware, replacing components
- Work with vendor warranty technicians to resolve warranty issues
- Proactively identify issues and plan efficiency improvements
- Set up, maintain and document spare parts inventory
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve deployment efficiency, automation and monitoring
- Assist system admins in debugging network, hardware and Linux OS issues
Benefits
- 100% company-paid medical, dental and vision insurance premiums
- 401(k) with 100% match up to 4%, immediate vesting
- $2,500 annual professional development reimbursement
- 11 holidays plus PTO accrual and rollover
- Increased PTO at 3 and 10 year anniversaries
- 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years
- Annual anniversary bonus
- Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
- Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
- Company paid Wellable subscription