Lead Data Center Support Services Technician

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · Ashburn, VA +1

Lead Data Center Support Services Technician role focused on ensuring the resilience, reliability, and availability of data center hardware. Responsibilities include leading complex support services, designing and governing change activities, serving as the highest operational escalation point, partnering with engineering teams, and mentoring staff. Requires strong understanding of data center design, hardware, networking, and systems administration, with significant leadership experience.

What you'd actually do

  1. Leads complex, data center hardware support services to ensure resilience, reliability, and availability at scale.
  2. Designs, governs, and signs off on advanced change activities and site augmentations, driving standardization of SOPs/MOPs across regions.
  3. Serves as the highest operational escalation point for incidents, leading cross-functional triage, root-cause analysis, and long-term corrective actions.
  4. Partners with engineering, capacity, networking, and security teams to anticipate risks, implement architectural improvements, and automate repeatable workflows.
  5. Mentors and develops team mates, uplifts best practices, and influences policy and process changes that improve performance across the group and organization.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, OR equivalent work experience
  • Experience working in a mission-critical operations environment
  • Thorough understanding of data center design, including electrical and cooling plant & and operation thereof
  • Airflow management (hot aisle, cold aisle, containment etc.)
  • Rack, and stack equipment including commissioning of new racks
  • Strong structured cabling skills on fiber & and copper (e.g looming, term & test)
  • Systems administration (Linux and/or Windows Servers - especially command line based)
  • Hardware repair, diagnosis & break/fix
  • Networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, basic troubleshooting)
  • IT Hardware Concepts (RAID, SAN, x86 architecture, SCSI, FC, ethernet, iLO)
  • Base Operating System Installs and Configuration
  • Core OS Services: SSH, Telnet, RDP, FTP, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Serial communication etc.

Nice to have

  • Recent graduates are encouraged to apply if they can demonstrate interest and knowledge in the position and a willingness to learn on the job – gap year students also considered.
  • Prefer 2-5 years of data center experience; 4 years for development preferred

What the JD emphasized

  • Leadership experience is a must (minimum 10 plus people in a quickly changing environment)
  • Fully competent in own area of expertise-anticipates problems and develops contingency plans
  • Able to resolve issues on their own and apply stop gaps for damage control