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Job Summary

As a Data Center Customer Operations Engineer, you will work closely with our customers, internal teams, and vendors to deliver outstanding service and resolve complex technical issues. You will be a key point of contact for our customers, providing expert guidance and support to ensure their success in a highly demanding and fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

Queue Management / Reporting

• Reviews work order requests in the queue and responds to work orders by adhering to commitment times

• Escalates and expedites orders to appropriate teams upon standard operating procedures; supervision needed on the escalation of non-standard procedure escalation requests

• Ensures adherence to commit times within standard operating procedures

• Maintains detailed written records of all work activity

• Updates local asset databases and other systems

Installations

• Rack and stack equipment based on customer equipment tickets

• Supports intra-cage infrastructure installations by following the standard operating procedures of customer installs, which may include:

• fiber trays, ladder racks, customer equipment and cabinets;
• semi-basic cage installs for mesh and overhead cable trays; and, performs tape changes and standard operating back-up changes

Cross-Connect

• Supports data center standard operating cross-connect work order requests (installs, terminations, modifications, and testing)

• Ensures the standard operating procedures are followed on cable management of: coax, fiber, twisted pair copper, and semi-routine intra-building cross connects

• Learns to install 'across' connect circuits (switched, multiplexed, etc.), under supervision

Testing / Troubleshooting

• Supports standard operating testing and standard operating installations of customer assets

• Supports standard operating procedures of layer 1 cross-connect certification testing

• May learn non-standard operating testing, such as: layer 2 and layer 3 testing, under supervision

Stakeholder Partnership

• Supports the operations and security personnel team for breaks or other activities, when necessary

• Supports standard operating procedural tasks provides back-up assistance to team members when necessary

Customer Management

• Supports customer satisfaction with timely adherence to following semi-routine execution order requirements

• Delivers a high level of service and an excellent customer experience when interfacing with customers

• Provides support with time expectations on new deployments and existing alterations, by following standard operating procedure guidelines

• Supports customers on-site by through access control and escorting services

Projects

• Supports fulfillment of projects that follow standard operating procedures; if projects deviate from standard procedures, then works under supervision

• Supports vendors on projects

• Supports physical customer audits

Training

• Completes all assigned training in a timely manner

• May provide support to new hires

Qualifications

• Typically requires at least a Higher Nitec in an IT-related field and 2-3 years of equivalent work experience

• Ability to do hands-on maintenance/ troubleshooting of equipment in tight spaces or at height

• Ability to support 24x7 operations and requires flexibility to work assigned shifts, including after-hours, weekends, and public holidays

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This posting is for a backfill position, meaning it is to fill an existing vacancy within our organization.