Allegis Group - Ashburn, VA
posted 2 months ago
This is a significant opportunity to join the Systems Engineering team as a Staff Data Center Engineer, where you will play a vital role in the deployment and reliability of large-scale consumer online services. As a member of the Data Center Engineering and Operations team, your primary responsibility will be to oversee the daily operations of our co-location data centers, ensuring optimal uptime, performance, and capacity of the services we manage. You will leverage your extensive experience to support various services and engage in mission-critical projects within a fast-paced and collaborative environment. In this role, you will be tasked with planning and facilitating data center expansions and build-outs for both new and existing footprints. You will monitor power consumption and environmental conditions within the data centers, leading a team of operations engineers to accomplish daily tasks effectively. Weekly planning meetings will be a part of your responsibilities, where you will collaborate with internal teams to define project requirements for hardware deployment. You will also create automated provisioning processes to streamline hardware deployments and manage vendor relations with manufacturers and value-added resellers (VARs). Your hands-on involvement will include provisioning and deploying server and network equipment, performing initial configurations, diagnosing complex technical issues, and managing hardware life-cycle processes. You will maintain an up-to-date inventory of all hardware across our data centers and implement best practices for maintaining a data center environment. Documentation and tracking of all assigned issues and tasks will be essential, ensuring timely resolution through our internal ticketing system.