Data Center Deployment Engineer

You turn new capacity into production-ready racks. You design how servers, switches and power land in each cabinet, then direct our techs and colo remote hands to build it exactly that way.

This is a hands-on engineering role, not a dispatch desk. You own rack elevations, cabling plans and port maps, and you are the one who signs off that a build is correct before it goes to provisioning. Expect a mix of planning at a desk, working with vendors and remote hands across a dozen sites, and time on the data center floor.

What you’ll do

• Plan new rack and cage build-outs: rack elevations, power distribution across A+B feeds, airflow and weight within each cabinet’s limits
• Produce cabling plans, port maps and labeling standards for copper, fiber and DACs, and keep them current as builds change
• Write clear method-of-procedure (MOP) documents and work orders for remote hands and contractors, then verify their work against the plan
• Coordinate deliveries, staging, burn-in and handoff of new servers to our provisioning platform
• Deploy and cable top-of-rack and out-of-band networks (Arista and Juniper), working with our network engineers on uplinks and IPMI/iDRAC access
• Bring high-density GPU servers online, including power budgeting
• Track hardware inventory, spares and RMAs across sites, and own the data center’s source of truth for what sits where
• Work with colocation providers on space, power, cross-connects and access, and travel to sites for builds that need you on the floor
• Improve our deployment standards so each new rack goes up faster and with fewer errors than the last

• 5+ years deploying servers and network gear in data centers or colocation facilities
• Strong command of structured cabling: single-mode and multimode fiber, MPO/MTP, DACs and AOCs, and the optics that go with them (SR, LR, DR, FR)
• Working knowledge of data center power: 208V single and three-phase circuits, A+B redundancy, PDUs and load balancing across banks/phases
• Experience writing rack elevations and cabling documentation
• Comfort with server hardware: BMC/IPMI, RAID, NICs, firmware updates and basic hardware troubleshooting
• Basic networking: VLANs, link aggregation, switch port configuration
• Clear written communication, especially with remote hands and vendors
• Ability to travel to sites roughly 25% of the time and lift 50 lb

Nice to have

• Hands-on time with Arista EOS or Junos
• Familiarity with bare metal provisioning (PXE/iPXE, Tinkerbell, MAAS or similar)
• Experience with a DCIM or source-of-truth tool such as NetBox
• Scripting in Python or Bash to automate inventory, labeling or validation
• Prior work at a hosting provider, cloud provider or carrier

Rackdog provides bare metal servers for businesses to scale their applications reliably, affordably, and globally. We’re transforming into an engineering-first company focused on building software that makes infrastructure simple and intuitive.