Lead Data Center Support Services Technician

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · Reston, VA +1

Lead Data Center Support Services Technician responsible for ensuring the resilience, reliability, and availability of data center hardware. This role involves leading complex support services, managing change activities, serving as the highest operational escalation point, and partnering with engineering and other teams to improve infrastructure and automate workflows. The position requires strong technical expertise in data center design, hardware, networking, and systems administration, along with leadership and mentoring skills.

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 A+, Security+, Network+ certification
  • 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

  • 2-5 years of data center experience
  • 4 years for development preferred
  • 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.

What the JD emphasized

  • Active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph