Data Center Engineer I Grade 19

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelors Degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job.
Specific Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities: Automation and virtualization. Assembling an Infrastrucure Assembling an Infrastrucure. Understanding of data center environment. Understanding of data center hardware.Communication, technical design, and collaboration skills. Look at a data center in a holistic manner. Data center related Technical certification preferred (e.g. MCSE, VMAX, Cisco). Familiarity with Networks, Windows and Unix systems. Familiarity with one or more server side languages/scripting (e.g. ASP, NET, Perl, python, ruby).
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Purpose of Classification:
This is an entry level position to perform tasks necessary to maintain and operate the County's data center, cable plant, video surveillance and entry card access systems. Maintains and monitors infrastructure network and service monitoring applications and notifies appropriate staff of alerts and outages.
Essential Functions:
The following duties are normal for this position. The omission of specific statements of the duties does not exclude them from the classification if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment for this classification. Other duties may be required and assigned.
Monitors and updates infrastructure monitoring applications and responds to alerts. Performs routine service requests for video surveillance and card entry systems. Monitors Data Center power and cooling and performs physical installations or moves of equipment residing in the data center, and updates data center documentation.
Responds to alerts by applying documented corrective procedures and/or notifying appropriate support staff. Notifies service desk of service outages and/or degradations. Responds to routine service requests for add, modify and delete accounts and permissions. Monitors uninterruptible power supply and power distributions systems and reports issues to management. Monitors room temperature and cooling units and reports issues to management. Installs or moves equipment into computer racking systems. Updates documentation and labeling for power capacity, cooling capacity rack tenancy and cable plant.
Works across the board to advise, assist, and inform many work groups including: Supporting Departmental Personnel, Technical Operations Managers, individual support and development teams, and the Configuration Manager.
Verifies that request for video surveillance and card access are properly authorized. Ensures proper placement of equipment to ensure adequate room for growth and minimize single points of failure. Recognizing when electrical, cooling and fire suppression systems issues begin the impact the live production environment.

Performance Aptitudes:
Data Utilization: Requires the ability to coordinate, manage, and/or correlate data. Includes exercising judgment in determining time, place and/or sequence of operations, referencing data analyses to determine necessity for revision of organizational components, and in the formulation of operational strategy.
Human Interaction: Requires the ability to provide formal training to others in specific fields typically involving preparation and/or modification of teaching materials. Requires the ability to act as a first-line supervisor, including instructing, assigning and reviewing work, maintaining standards, coordinating activities, and evaluating employee job performance.
Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization: Requires the ability to operate and control the actions of equipment and machinery, requiring the monitoring, adjustment, regulation, and/or setting of multiple conditions.
Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, advisory and/or design data and information.
Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; ability to calculate decimals and percentages; may include ability to perform mathematical operations with fractions; may include ability to compute discount, interest, and ratios; may include ability to calculate surface areas, volumes, weights, and measures.
Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership, and to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to resolve problems.
Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental, or subjective criteria, as opposed to that which is clearly measurable or verifiable.

It is the policy of Fulton County that there will be equal opportunity for every citizen, employee and applicant, based upon merit without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, genetics, age, disability or sexual orientation.