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Data Center Ops IV
Yahoo!
Quincy, WA, United States
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Description
A Little About Us
The Data Center Operations team is looking for an experienced Data Center Engineer who is a well-versed individual with a strong technical background and ability to coordinate and drive multiple projects at various stages. This position requires the ability to direct and balance a variety of diverse requests, priorities, and activities. You must have a proven track record of driving operational improvements in service level and quality. You will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on Yahoo’s infrastructure, operations, and global supply chain.
About Your Day
• Play a key role by coordinating operations and engineering teams in order to identify and triage outages, verify service impact to the users, send out status updates, dispatch the appropriate subject matter experts and identify root cause to implement a fix.
• Monitoring and remediating both systems and network performance through the use of various network management tools and ticketing systems.
• Use in-house tools to administer user accounts, assign DNS, configure switches, or any other data center functions.
• Maintain and repair servers and network equipment to ensure maximum level of uptime within Data Center. Perform in depth troubleshooting with specialty in a single discipline and knowledge of many.
• Plan and Execute complex Change Management Requests.
• Communicate directly with customer / property technical contact.
• Introduction to daily management / leading individuals / people management.
You Must Have
• Bachelors Degree
• Knowledge of FreeBSD, Linux, Windows operation systems.
• Knowledge of the UNIX operating environment with the ability to navigate, manipulate and understand the file structure.
• Understanding TCP/IP network environment.
• Basic to Intermediate understanding of Network infrastructure.
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
• Has proven ability to mentor others.
• Ability to perform structured network cabling.
• Ability to work off of a ladder.
• Ability to troubleshoot and repair a wide variety of enterprise hardware.
• Ability to perform intermediate to career level activities in one or more specialty areas (Storage, Network, Systems)
• Mastery of policies and procedures across multiple functions in Data Center Operations
Love To Have
• Relevant bachelors or graduate degree or equivalent experience.
• Knowledge in Bash and Perl scripting for completing tasks at scale.
• Red Hat, Cisco, Net App certifications or equivalent experience.
• Knowledge of vendor / supplier relationships.
• Experience in multiple facets of Data Center Operations including facilities management, power and space management, and understanding of basic design of electrical and mechanical systems.