Senior Data Center Technician – Copper

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Install, test, troubleshoot, and maintain copper cabling.

• Set up servers, switches, storage devices, patch panels, cable managers, support hardware, and associated infrastructure.

• Conduct rack-and-stack operations in standard, high-density, and AI-compute cabinets.

• Install, route, dress, label, and connect both copper and fiber-optic cabling.

• Install management cables, console cables, power cords, interconnects, optics, and supplementary components.

• Confirm cable source, destination, port assignments, labeling, connector types, routing, slack, and bend radius.

• Work from cable schedules, rack elevations, port maps, drawings, and runbooks.

• Execute cabling remediation, cleanup, defect corrections, and rework as needed.

• Complete security awareness training and adhere to company policies.

• Identify and escalate security risks, contributing to remediation efforts.

• Assist remote engineers and support teams with smart-hands tasks.

• Replace damaged cables, labels, optics, transceivers, hardware, and field-replaceable components.

• Document serial numbers, asset tags, MAC addresses, photographs, and installation records.

• Update project trackers, completion checklists, issue logs, redline notes, and timekeeping systems.

• Inspect work for visible defects prior to quality review.

• Report blockers, damaged equipment, missing materials, drawing conflicts, site issues, and safety concerns.

• Keep cabinets, pathways, workstations, staging areas, and project zones clean and organized.

• Safeguard customer infrastructure from damage.

• Maintain professional communication with leads, superintendents, customers, subcontractors, and project stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in data center operations, telecommunications, low-voltage installation, structured cabling, network deployment, or a related field.

• Proven experience in installing copper and fiber-optic cabling.

• Familiarity with mounting and installing equipment in data cabinets.

• Capability to follow detailed technical instructions, cable schedules, drawings, and runbooks.

• Ability to read cable labels, rack elevations, port maps, and basic schematics.

• Proficient in documenting completed work accurately and working independently as part of a traveling field team.

• Possession of a valid driver's license.

• Ability to meet travel, background, drug, safety, and site-access screening requirements.

• Willingness to travel approximately 75% to 90% nationwide, including frequent overnight and extended assignments.

• Flexibility to work during days, nights, weekends, holidays, extended shifts, deployment windows, and shifts lasting 10 to 12 hours.

• Capability to lift and carry up to 50 pounds and assist with heavier team lifts.

• Ability to stand and walk for extended periods; bend, kneel, crouch, reach, climb ladders, and work inside cabinets.

• Proficient in performing repetitive tasks related to cable installation, dressing, labeling, and equipment setup.

• Comfort working in active construction and operational data center environments while wearing required PPE.

🏝️ Benefits

• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO).

• Incentive compensation plans available for all employees.

• Company-funded 401k contributions.

• Zero-cost employer-provided health insurance.

• Annual BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) reimbursement of up to $500.

• Paid Parental Leave.

• Open and candid culture with 1:1 coaching, performance reviews, and a consistent feedback loop.

• Salaried, non-exempt position eligible for overtime pay at one and one-half times the employee’s regular rate for hours worked over 40 in a workweek.