Senior level data center technician

Position Title

Data Center Onsite Technician

Location of Job

1201 East Arapahoe Road, Richardson, TX, 75081

99% out of this location, will work at both Richardson. Possible work at the other two locations. They may have to travel to the other locations with notice. Not often.

1600 Solana Boulevard Westlake, TX, 76262

500 West Dove Road, Southlake, TX, 76092

1201 East Arapahoe Road, Richardson, TX, 75081

Duration

6 months, possible extension

Why is this position open?

New position

H1s acceptable?

No, Only GC OR USC

Top Skills

• Install, cable, and integrate IT infrastructure equipment, including enterprise-class servers, core and edge network switches, storage arrays, and intelligent PDUs, following structured methodologies and data center industry best practices.
• Perform precision physical hardware deployments, including racking and stacking of high-density equipment, ensuring optimal airflow, secure mounting, and compliance with weight distribution standards.
• Execute structured cabling tasks using fiber optic (LC / MPO / MTP) and copper (Cat6 / Cat6a) media, ensuring accurate port mapping, cable labeling, and adherence to TIA / EIA and ANSI standards.
• Test, validate, and troubleshoot MPO / MTP fiber connections, including endface inspection, polarity (Type A, B, C) verification, continuity, and insertion loss using appropriate diagnostic tools (e.g., MPO polarity testers, VFL, OTDR, and power meters). They will have to make changes to polarity
• Diagnose and resolve Layer 1 connectivity issues, such as mispatches, bent fibers, improper transceiver pairings, or polarity mismatches in high-speed optical networks (10G / 40G / 100G / 400G).
• Work collaboratively with senior technicians, infrastructure engineers, and network teams to meet deployment timelines, escalate complex issues, and ensure seamless integration into the live environment.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation for all installations, including detailed cable matrices, fiber path layouts, port assignments, equipment inventories, and rack elevations.

May need to show other techs how to do the job, shouldn’t be too lower level

Open to industry as long as they know how to do the work.

Preferred to have, but not required : Dell power edge servers, HP gen10 servers, netapp storage

Additional notes from client call :

Senior level data center technician, someone who was doing the job for 5-10 years. Day to day data center activities, know how to do troubleshooting, do installs, potentially set up servers, go into a server to do some troubleshooting, do lifecycle management.

How do you troubleshoot a fiber connectivity type issue?

How do you know which fiber is a transmit vs a received?

Why do you have link on one side and not the other, how do you go about resolving it?