Data Center Eradication Technician

By safely executing device destruction, tracking chain of custody, and maintaining rigorous inventory standards, your daily expertise will ensure critical data remains completely secure while supporting sustainable, next-generation infrastructure. Here, your precision and collaborative spirit will help drive seamless operational standards across a high-velocity environment. This role is on-site in Rosemount, MN.

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities) in this role, you will:

• Manage daily sanitization and physical destruction processes: Safely destroy storage devices while maintaining precise logical tracking and chain of custody records.

• Coordinate inventory and vendor workflows: Oversee device pickup, maintain eradication workspace organization, and reconcile destroyed media across internal tracking systems.

• Drive continuous process improvements: Collaborate on updated playbooks, document policies, and participate in operational syncs to capture key action items.

• Resolve operational discrepancies: Troubleshoot physical and logical inventory variances while meeting strict service level agreements (SLAs).

• Facilitate secure site logistics: Handle intercampus transportation of storage media and partner with global teams on upcoming technical innovations and side projects.

• 1+ years of experience in data center environments, inventory management, or PC/server hardware repair.

• Strong technical comfort with operating systems (Windows/Mac OS) and task tracking or productivity suites.

• Demonstrated ability to lift a minimum of 40 lbs and navigate a fast-paced physical workspace.

• High School Diploma (or equivalent) and a valid driver’s license with the ability to travel up to 10% to support regional sites.

• US Citizenship or Permanent Residency, along with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Competitive compensation and benefits aligned with experience.

• Paid time off and holiday package.

• Alternative work arrangements and scheduling stability to support work-life balance.

• Comprehensive health, wellness, and retirement plans.

• Opportunities for continuous learning, technical skill enhancement, and professional growth.

Ready to build a meaningful career while keeping the digital world secure? Apply today and help us shape the future of sustainable data infrastructure!

Reasonably expected salary range: $56,600.00 - $70,700.00

Please note that an employee’s starting salary may vary based on a variety of factors. Where State, Municipal, Provincial, Territorial or other legal minimum wages exceed the federal minimum wage, employees are entitled to the higher rate.

Iron Mountain (Eagan, MN)

At Iron Mountain we know that work, when done well, makes a positive impact for our customers, our employees, and our planet. That’s why we need smart, committed people to join us. Whether you’re looking to start your career or make a change, talk to us and see how you can elevate the power of your work at Iron Mountain.

We provide expert, sustainable solutions in records and information management, digital transformation services, data centers, asset lifecycle management, and fine art storage, handling, and logistics. We proudly partner every day with our 225,000 customers around the world to preserve their invaluable artifacts, extract more from their inventory, and protect their data privacy in innovative and socially responsible ways.

Are you curious about being part of our growth stor y while evolving your skills in a culture that will welcome your unique contributions? If so, let’s start the conversation.

Iron Mountain is seeking a vision-driven Data Center Eradication Technician to join our Data Center Operations team.

In this role, you’ll play a key part in advancing our circular data center model by directly managing media sanitization and hardware lifecycle processes for one of our highest-profile technology clients., Iron Mountain is a global leader in storage and information management services trusted by more than 225,000 organizations in 60 countries. We safeguard billions of our customers’ assets, including critical business information, highly sensitive data, and invaluable cultural and historic artifacts. Take a look at our history here.

Iron Mountain helps lower cost and risk, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and enable digital and sustainable solutions, whether in information management, digital transformation, secure storage and destruction, data center operations, cloud services, or art storage and logistics. Please see our Values and Code of Ethics for a look at our principles and aspirations in elevating the power of our work together.