What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Center Technician position at Keepit?
About the roleAs a Data Center Technician supporting our Ashburn-area operations, you will be the boots-on-the-ground presence ensuring our physical infrastructure stays healthy, up-to-date, and running smoothly. This is a part-time, primarily remote role, with regular on-site presence in the Ashburn, VA area when hands-on work is needed.
Beyond routine maintenance, we'd love for you to bring scripting and automation skills to the table. If you can help automate firmware updates, standardize configuration management, and reduce the manual toil that comes with managing hardware at scale, you'll fit right in.
You will:
About usOur platform provides customers with an immutable, historical archive of their data in systems such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Entra ID, Dynamics 365, and Zendesk.
We protect our customers against everything, ranging from ransomware to simple accidents.
The majority of our back-end components are written in clean, modern C using mainly purpose-built components. Components responsible for business processes and data mining are built using Common Lisp. Everything runs on Linux.
We pride ourselves on backing up billions of objects over foreign APIs using imperfect networks on systems with finite memory and making it all happen in a performant, reliable, and predictable way.
We offer:
We kindly ask you not to provide us with any sensitive categories of personal data when applying for a job with us. When applying for the vacancy, Keepit will process your personal data, and therefore we recommend that you also read our privacy policy, which describes our processing of personal data and your rights as a data subject.
Beyond routine maintenance, we'd love for you to bring scripting and automation skills to the table. If you can help automate firmware updates, standardize configuration management, and reduce the manual toil that comes with managing hardware at scale, you'll fit right in.
You will:
- Day-to-day monitoring and maintenance of data center hardware and infrastructure
- Physical hardware troubleshooting, replacement, and upkeep during on-site visits
- Firmware updates and patch management across servers and network equipment
- Scripting and automation to streamline repetitive operational tasks
- Configuration management of hardware and network devices
- Maintaining accurate records of equipment status, changes, and procedures
- Contributing to operational improvements and standardization efforts
- Proven experience working in a colocation or carrier-neutral data center environment
- Experience working with 3rd party support personnel from vendors
- Strong hands-on skills with physical server and networking hardware
- Structured and detail-oriented approach to documentation and asset management
- Comfortable working independently and managing your own schedule
- Located in or able to commute to the Ashburn, VA / Washington, DC area for on-site work
- Fluent in written and spoken English
- Passport and ability to travel to Europe, Canada and South America to perform on-site maintenance and participate in work with our Europe-based team.
- Experience scripting in Python or a similar language for operational automation
- Familiarity with firmware management tools and configuration management frameworks like Ansible, Puppet, or similar
- Experience with IPMI, iDRAC, iLO, or similar out-of-band management interfaces
- Familiarity with Linux-based environments
- Site Reliability Engineering or similar experience
About usOur platform provides customers with an immutable, historical archive of their data in systems such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Entra ID, Dynamics 365, and Zendesk.
We protect our customers against everything, ranging from ransomware to simple accidents.
The majority of our back-end components are written in clean, modern C using mainly purpose-built components. Components responsible for business processes and data mining are built using Common Lisp. Everything runs on Linux.
We pride ourselves on backing up billions of objects over foreign APIs using imperfect networks on systems with finite memory and making it all happen in a performant, reliable, and predictable way.
We offer:
- Generous medical, dental and vision for you and your family
- 401k with employer match
- Flexible time-off policy
- Home internet reimbursement
- Hybrid work arrangement
- Flexible spending account
- An exciting growth journey surrounded and supported by amazing colleagues
- A centrally located office well-stocked with beverages and snacks
We kindly ask you not to provide us with any sensitive categories of personal data when applying for a job with us. When applying for the vacancy, Keepit will process your personal data, and therefore we recommend that you also read our privacy policy, which describes our processing of personal data and your rights as a data subject.