Data Center Technician with Fibre Skills

Who are we?

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet.

A place where bold ideas are welcomed, human connection is valued, and everyone has the opportunity to shape their future.

Joining our operations team means being at the center of everything – maintaining and evolving critical infrastructure that powers the digital world and delivers real impact for our customers, communities and society. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you—because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work.

Job Summary:

Acquires job skills to resolve routine tasks requiring limited judgement. Focus is on routine tasks, using limited judgement of standard operating procedures. Supports the overall team.

Responsibilities

Queue Management / Reporting

· Reviews work order requests in the queue and responds to routine work orders by adhering to commitment times.
· Involved in escalating and expediating higher level orders, upon supervision.
· Actively follows up on work orders in the queue to support the overall team.
· Maintains notes and records of activity fulfillment in the ticketing system.

Installations

· Rack and stack basic customer equipment, with guidance from more senior team members.
· Supports routine intra-cage and infrastructure installations, under guidance, which may include:
- routine ladder racks and basic fiber raceways;
- basic cable management and support systems (patch panels);
- routine ground cabinets and basic post racks; and may perform tape changes and basic backup necessities.

Cross-Connect

· Supports basic cross-connect troubleshooting.

Testing / Troubleshooting

· Supports basic testing and routine installations of customer assets.
Supports standard layer 1 cross-connect certification testing, under supervision.
· May learn more semi-routine testing, under supervision.

Stakeholder Partnership

· Supports the operations and security personnel team for breaks or other activities, when necessary.

Customer Management

· Supports customer satisfaction with timely adherence to following basic order execution requirements.
· Delivers quality customer service experience when interfacing with customers.
· Discusses time expectations on new deployments, by following standard operating procedure guidelines.
· May support customers on-site through access and escorting services.

Projects

· Supports fulfillment of projects under close supervision.

Training

· Completes assigned training in a timely manner.

Typical Degree & Years of Experience

· Typically requires a high school diploma and 1 year of equivalent work experience.

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