Data Center Engineer

This position is the most senior role on the Data Center Services team. The Data Center Engineer leads infrastructure efforts, supports architecture discussions, and helps drive strategy while ensuring uptime and stability across enterprise data center environments. This role requires both technical depth and the ability to operate across teams and with leadership, influencing technical direction and owning outcomes., * Ensure continuous uptime across data center systems and facilities.

• Lead complex infrastructure initiatives and provide direction across operations, monitoring, and projects.
• Design and implement infrastructure solutions, contributing to architecture and system design.
• Troubleshoot operating system, application, hardware, and infrastructure issues.
• Manage infrastructure projects and serve as a liaison between Data Center Services and other IT groups.
• Mentor Data Center Technicians, providing technical guidance and best practices.
• Provide reporting, analytics, and operational insights to recommend improvements.

Experience: A minimum of 5 years of recent infrastructure or data center experience within enterprise environments is required.

Technical Skills: A strong understanding of servers, networking, storage, and virtualization fundamentals is necessary. This includes experience with Windows, Unix, and Linux environments, as well as knowledge of DNS, DHCP, and TCP/IP. Familiarity with monitoring, observability tools, automation, and scripting is also required.

Professional Skills: The role demands strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, communication, and leadership abilities. Candidates must be able to communicate effectively with leadership, vendors, and technical teams.

This is a fully onsite role based in a 24/7 data center operations environment. The position involves a mix of strategic work and operational support, requiring an ownership mindset to think independently, ask questions, and drive improvements.

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.