Data Center Technician 2

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · VA · Engineering

This role is for a Data Center Technician at AMD, responsible for hardware setup, diagnostics, troubleshooting, and decommissioning in customer data centers. It involves following standard procedures, performing quality checks, and contributing to documentation and team knowledge.

What you'd actually do

  1. Prepares, stages, sets up, and performs data center hardware startups and shutdowns (e.g., racks, hard drives, switches) according to specific instructions provided via checklists, guides, standard protocols, and emails; assists and provides guidance to other technicians to complete challenging or complex tasks.
  2. Performs diagnostics and troubleshooting following standard procedures, quickly identifies the root-cause(s) of the issue(s), and replaces faulty components with minimal customer and business disruption.
  3. Performs post-execution quality checks and verifies that grounding, staging, labeling, and cabling are set up properly according to safety protocols, deployment standards, and planned Network Design Tasks (NDTs).
  4. Decommissions hardware for simple changes and refreshes (e.g., memory upgrades, OS rebuilds) following standard procedures with minimal guidance.
  5. Follows procedures to communicate, report, and escalate incidents to appropriate Management

Skills

Required

  • Hardware troubleshooting
  • IT infrastructure
  • Cabling management
  • Attention to detail
  • Technical documentation
  • Process improvement
  • Customer focus
  • Safety procedures

Nice to have

  • Server design
  • Cloud infrastructure