{"id":11522,"date":"2025-06-14T19:54:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T19:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/job\/data-center-technician-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T00:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T00:24:10","slug":"data-center-technician-2","status":"expired","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/?post_type=job_listing&p=11522","title":{"rendered":"Data Center Technician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Job Description<\/p>\n<p>\tBachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Information Systems OR equivalent work experience<br \/>\n\tExperience in IT Infrastructure support and server administration in a mid-sized environment (200 &#8211; 1000+ server systems)<br \/>\n\tExperience with data center M&amp;E equipment<br \/>\n\tDemonstrated examples of a drive to dig into the details of a system or process to solve customer problems<br \/>\n\tExperience working in a \u201cmission critical operations\u201d environment<br \/>\n\tThe position involves on-call which means you should have a driving license and be able to reach out to the Data Center site within 60 mins approximately and may require working in cramped spaces or elevated locations.<br \/>\n\tAbility to speak confidently and to communicate clearly in a virtual environment<br \/>\n\tStrong adherence to processes and be a Process Champion<br \/>\n\tGood communication skills (oral &amp; written) and ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of customers and staff<br \/>\n\tExperience providing client-facing, direct customer support and service.<br \/>\n\tAbility to work productively in remote cross-functional teams or resourcefully and independently as an individual<br \/>\n\tHighly service-oriented, reliable, responsible, self-motivated<br \/>\n\tGood English command\u00a0<br \/>\n\tRequired Data Center experience:<br \/>\n\tBasic knowledge of data center design, including electrical and cooling plant &amp; operation thereof<br \/>\n\tBasic knowledge of airflow management (hot aisle, cold aisle, containment etc.)<br \/>\n\tRack, stack equipment including commissioning of new racks<br \/>\n\tStrong structured cabling skills on fibre &amp; copper (e.g. looming, term &amp; test)<br \/>\n\tRequired systems &amp; hardware expertise\/experience:<br \/>\n\tSystems administration (Linux and\/or Windows Servers)<br \/>\n\tHardware repair, diagnosis &amp; break \u00a0\/ fix<br \/>\n\tNetworking fundamentals (DNS, TCP\/IP, basic troubleshooting)<br \/>\n\tIT Hardware Concepts (RAID, SAN, x86 architecture, SCSI, FC, ethernet, iLO)<br \/>\n\tBase Operating System Installs and configuration<br \/>\n\tCore OS Services: SSH, Telnet, RDP, FTP, NFS, DNS, DHCP etc.<\/p>\n<p>Responsibilities<\/p>\n<p>\tAct as HW support expert liaison to other technical teams &amp; non-technical teams (e.g.: networking, compute, compliance, business operations)<br \/>\n\tUnderstand internal customer problem and provide technical solution in timely manner<br \/>\n\tParticipate in the installation, monitoring, maintenance, support, and optimization of all production server hardware<br \/>\n\tSystem board level repair and fault diagnosis to SLAs<br \/>\n\tPlanning and commissioning new rack positions<br \/>\n\tInvolvement with the design and commissioning of new whitespaces<br \/>\n\tStructured cabling installation is a significant part of this position<br \/>\n\tKeep up with the latest technologies and apply them appropriately<br \/>\n\tAdherence to defined Health &amp; Safety processes at all times<br \/>\n\tWorking as part of a multi-disciplinary team without friction<br \/>\n\tAdditional on premise work at customer locations may be required \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Qualifications<\/p>\n<p>\tCareer Level &#8211; IC3<\/p>\n<p>Apply via company website ( http:\/\/www.oracle.com ) or<\/p>\n<p>eeho.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_promoted":"","_job_location":"","_application":"http:\/\/eeho.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com","_company_name":"Oracle","_company_website":"http:\/\/www.oracle.com","_company_tagline":"With more than 380,000 customers-including 100 of the Fortune 100-and with deployments across a wide variety of industries in more than 145 countries around the globe, Oracle offers an optimized and fully integrated stack of business hardware and software systems. 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