Data Centre Shift Technician

• Comply to working methods ensuring all SLA and MSA’s are achieved
• Perform after-hours support for both the Data Centre technicians and Data Centre coordinators
• Management of data centre infrastructure to provide a concurrently maintainable, cost effective system supporting 99.999% electrical uptime and 99.99% mechanical uptime

• Maintain compliance in accordance to all relative policies and procedures
• Meet agreed inter-departmental OLA (Operational Level Agreement)
• H&S monitoring and corrective action to meet statutory compliance, SLAs and good business practice

• Ensure applicable planned and corrective maintenance is managed in accordance to ensure customer MSA’s and SLA’s are achieved
• Conduct working methods to maintain agreed PUE levels
• Task finalisation and report accurately, as per agreed format, quality and within the agreed timelines

• Ensure compliance is maintained incorporating industry best practices
• Ensure data centre facilities standards are enforced and maintained
• Ensure data centre cleaning standards are enforced and maintained

• Good technical abilities
• Effective communication skills, active listener – ability to understand requirements
• Proactive problem solver, perform rapid and accurate assessments
• Ability to work independently, as well as being a positive team player
• Self-motivated
• Conducts self professionally, exhibits elevated levels of tolerance and patience
• Responsible for continued learning and self-development
• Quick response to potentially critical situations
• Trouble shoot systems and components to identify root causes of failures
• Implement corrective actions promptly to mitigate the negative effects of system changes
• Good Microsoft Office skills

• Electrical qualification preferable
• Minimum 5 years relevant data centre experience preferable
• Good knowledge on Data Centre environments and critical infrastructure systems preferable

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